Today, an extensive Immigration Bill passed in Arizonas Senate. It is considered to be one of the strictest immigration bills ever passed. It passed on a 17-11 vote.
The measure would require immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times. It also requires police to question people if there's reason to suspect they're undocumented and targets those who hire illegal immigrant day laborers or knowingly transport them.
But many critics fear the racial profiling that will inevitably come along with this new bill. It was greatly supported by Senator John McCain and heavily influenced by the Republican Senator Russel Pierce who wrote the law. It has presented a huge debate on whether this will cause other states to join in with a similar legislation simply because the U.S has put this issue on the backburner.
If you read the articles I have here, it explains more in depth what this bill does, and personally it can be really intimidating and daunting the type of scrutiny and severity this bill has upon immigration. I believe that this is just going to ostracize immigrants even more and I feel that this will have a deep backlash causing there to be a major increase in racial tensions. I definitely do not think this is the proper route to be handling this situation What do you guys think?
link:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/19/arizona.immigration.bill/index.html?hpt=T2
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/us/20immig.html
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I agree Rebecca, they are obviously going too far on this bill. The phrasing of "reason to suspect" on whether or not to question immigrants is way too ambiguous as there is no clear-cut definition of what is exactly grounds for "reason to suspect" and will probably cause lots of authority figures to abuse this privilege. Especially because America is such a broad and diverse countries rich with nationalities all over the world, there are a great number of immigrants, and requiring them to carry their documents seems unnecessary and unfair. In addition, as you said Rebecca, it will most likely increase racial tensions as such a bill only leads to racial profiling.
Its kinda sad that they were able to pass this bill because it will cause so much of a hassle for those who are actual american citizens but just are latin. That will not help the cause of getting rid of illegal immigrants but rather create more havoc when finding a person of Latin decent who is "supposedly illegal"
however i found some stuff about Russel Pearce and was not surprised why he implemented such a strict law.
He is a
"man who has been regularly tied to Neo-Nazi’s, racist hate-groups, and is known for making politically embarrassing statements that show his complete disgust for anyone who is not white."
This is from
http://chattahbox.com/us/2010/04/20/arizonas-disgusting-new-immigration-policy-written-by-neo-nazi-sympathizer/
With other examples of how this senator has shown his hatred for nonwhite races, Pearce is quite racist and it is sad he is able to affect the quality of life of those that he personally hates.
What bothers me is the lack in real effective laws being passed in regards to immigrants. This bill will not really be all that effective in deterring illegal immigrants and will really just spur racial profiling. What they should do is implement a system that harshly punishes people who employ illegal immigrants. If you take away their ability to make money you take away the main reason why they came here in the first place. Everything else just seems a tad mean and unnecessary, moreover occasionally it violates our constitution by making the children accountable for the sins of their parents.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez wrote something on this for the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-luis-gutierrez/obama-must-act-to-ease-ar_b_541710.html) urging President Obama to act on promises to reform immigration laws. Basically, he argues that the Arizona bill could be the tipping point for the issue of immigration, potentially leading to "a lot more of the devastation we are seeing in Arizona this week." I agree with Rep. Gutierrez–something should be done about this bill, which, like others have said, would promote racial profiling and hostility.
I agree. I definitely believe that this new bill that has been passed will increase racial profiling. To me, the phrase, "it also requires police to question people if there's reason to suspect they're undocumented...," just means reason to racial profile people. This aspect of the immigration bill is just allowing the police to justify their racial profiling.
Like Jeff said, I believe that there needs to me more EFFECTIVE immigration bills, instead of ones like this which is unnecessary and cruel.
I actually believe this will can do a lot of good. Even though there will be some unavoidable tensions because of the police having to question people based on racial profiling, people need to keep in mind that there is the largest number of immigrants sneaking across the boarder... well, ever. I believe the biggest downfall of this bill is that it is shifting problems with immigration from the federal government to local police stations, who are already strapped for money as is.
I believe this bill passed in Arizona is going overboard. I believe that this is way too harsh on immigrants. I think a better way of handling this immigration is very complicated, but this problem is probably unsolvable. There will always be more immigrants even with these kinds of harsh laws that discourages immigrants.
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