Since it was passed on April 23, the Arizona Immigration Law has deported many immigrants. The Arizona Law was written to lower drug violence and the number of illegal immigrants in Arizona, but many have protested it.

"It's that whole attitude that fundamentally reflects, 'Yes, we're trying to take over immigration policy,' " Foster Maer, an attorney for a Hispanic civil-rights group. "It really demonizes Latinos generally and immigrants specifically." (Arizona immigration law has groups readying for court, USA Today)

The law gives permission for police to stop a person on the street if they look like an illegal immigrant and ask for documents proving that they are in the country legally; in fact citizens can sue the state if the law isn't being enforced to its fullest. The law also makes it a crime to not carry documents if you are not a citizen.

In Mexico, where many of Arizona's illegal immigrants are from, changes are being made as well. The government increased the maximum number of years in jail for a smuggler from 12 to 16. Shelters for children have been preparing for more people to come.

"All of us are getting ready for people to come back," Maria Isabel Avruiz, the director of one of the shelters, said.

I remember first reading the New York Times article by Randal C. Archibold. I was amazed at what I read. A law that would "undermine the basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans (Barak Obama)."  As I read other articles on the law I read about people who called it "improvements in the quality of life (Bob Dane)."

In this story I would like to show that racial discrimination, by law or not shouldn't be tolerated. People shouldn't feel under pressure because of their identity. I hope that you, the reader, will learn that racial identity is important  and should be embraced by others.

Works Cited Page
Archibold, Randal C. "Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration." The New York Times 23 April 2010: n.p. Web.

Gomez, Alan. "Arizona Fells Negative 'Ripple Effect' Over Border Law." USA Today 19 November 2010: A3. Web.

Hawley, Chris. "Mexico Braces For Effects of Arizona Immigration Law." USA Today 26 July 2010: n.p. Web.

Gamboa, Suzanne. "Arizona Deportation Stats: Thousands Deported Even Without New Law." The Huffington Post 28 July 2010: n.p. Web.

Gomez, Alan. "Arizona Immigration Law Has Groups Readying for Court." USA Today 20 July: n.p. Web.

Reading Response: The Singing by Alison Croggon

The main character in The Singing, Maerad, shines apart from main characters of other books. Maerad refuses to be weak and she has determination that runs through thick and thin. As she tries to help save the city of Innail while it fights the the evil ally of the Nameless One, the Landrost, she finds herself close to death. The fear of the encounter changed her attitude. Death so close left an immovable shadow over her.

Maerad has faced dangerous sorcerers and elemental gods, yet she expected those. Though she knew she was heading to a dangerous place (the Landrost's mind) she hadn't come to terms that she could die from it. In Maerad's defense, death is a hard thing to understand and an even harder thing to come to terms with. Even as she found the bodies of others she could never fully accept that they were gone forever.

Maered is just a young girl who has more pressure than she can handle. She is wanted by the powerful Winterking, an evil man without a soul, and many dark sorcerers;she carries the key to the safety or ending of Annar, the treesong, yet she is still undaunted until a nightmare almost becomes reality.

As the nightmare rode the hope was safe

Determined to keep the thing that mattered

As she fought for Annar the hope went away

Wrapped in a blanket of dark she fought sleep