I read a New York Times article and a USA Today article on the Arizona Immigration Law. Both articles explain the law in horrifying detail. For example, it is against the law to not carry immigration papers and police can ask people for their papers if they find reason- as in they look Hispanic.
This is very racist to me. In the USA people aren't allowed to be targeted because of their race. Although there has been a lot of drug smugglers recently, they won't be the ones walking openly around Arizona; it will be the innocent people who came for hope.
As this law has been enforced it has separated families and unlawfully persecuted people who didn't want to go through the trouble of carrying immigration papers with them everywhere they went. This law has left people feeling disrespected by their government for who they are and the dream that they have almost achieved.
This law, while it had some positive intentions (targeting drug smugglers), this isn't the way to do it. This law needs to bee revised to help the USA instead of cause distrust and racism. As Roger M. Mahony said this law is "Nazism". While the Jews were murdered in Europe because they weren't "perfect Germans" (blond haired and blue eyed) the Hispanics are being targeted in Arizona because they look like they are Mexican.
This law is unfair and "The system is broken," as Senator Harry Reid said. This injustice needs to be fixed!
wow! i love the complex issues you brought up, like how we are repeating the past without realizing it (which I also brought up in my response). there is really deep stuff in here, and I just wish you could have brought it out and elaborated on it more.
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