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The unanimous vote Thursday night came after Allesandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the Arizona ACLU, urged members to keep the old policy because a proposed new one is more likely to result in racial profiling. The residents said it would foster an atmosphere of fear and mistrust in the Hispanic community that could hamper crime-solving.