My big issue with the law that recently passed in Arizona is that it would allow/require police to harass Hispanic people. What is "reasonable suspicion" of being an illegal immigrant--being brown and speaking Spanish? There are plenty of US citizens that fit that description. US citizens of Hispanic descent should not be effectively required to carry US passports everywhere they go to avoid a risk of being harassed by the cops for being illegal or worst case, being 'detained' by the INS and shipped off to Mexico. We should not make appearing Hispanic synonymous with being a potential criminal and I think that the law in question does that.
I won't go into my opinions on the structure of our immigration laws as they apply to agricultural workers and the like or the fact that the violence that triggered this particular wave of anti-Hispanic sentiment could be largely solved by applying some sanity to our national drug policy.
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Date: 2010-04-27 10:01 pm (UTC)I won't go into my opinions on the structure of our immigration laws as they apply to agricultural workers and the like or the fact that the violence that triggered this particular wave of anti-Hispanic sentiment could be largely solved by applying some sanity to our national drug policy.