As geography would have it, the United States borders on Canada and Mexico two major contributors to our country. Canada is a constant joke in our nation and though we export out excellent actors that we now claim as our own. Mexico on the other hand, supplies most of the undocumented workers in this country.
Arizona has passed an Act known as SB 1070 that is trying to restrict and cease the influx of alien workers and undocumented immigrant that are coming into the state. The law presents it self as helpful, protecting American citizens and making police enforcement focus on other important factors in the state, but while reading this bill the tone was more anti-immigrants than protection. In the bill it states that officers of the law can arrest a person (without a warrant) if the officer has probable cause that the said person ha broken the law. But what kind of probable cause? The limits of searching seem infinite, making racial profiling come into the equation, and question who is legal and illegal persons. I think Arizona's law is not really helping the immigrant situation because it makes them in the bill seem like they are carrying weapons/drugs into the state and want to harm citizens but that is not the case. Most illegal immigrants ( I hate using the term alien) come to America to make a better life for themselves and help their families, by doing the work that most people refuse to do. There is definitely a better way to go about immigration laws than to police those who "look" illegal. More to come later.
I hope everyone had a lovely Sunday.
A.B
yea 'probable cause' is a term easily abused, they need to rewrite the law so it more clearly identifies the parameters for stopping someone
ReplyDeleteWow, I tooootaallly agree with you! You brought up some really good points that I was also actually thinking of. I mean people are just coming here to make a better like, isn't that what American stands for? And also what defines "probable" cause, I can say if I was a police officer someones running in the street, is probable cause as absurd as it sounds. Racial profiling definatley comes into play, but then again Arizona is a "racist" state in a sense. Immigration should be worked out from our BIG government, not just the smaller states. Whether we like it or not people are going to come in and out of the country, and actually most of us ARE immigrants, so what makes it right for us?
ReplyDeleteI think that we need to define the law as clear as possible. As I have said before, laws are there to protect us, therefore they need to be written correctly. As a pro-legal person and also an immigrant, I believe that we should not get too emotional about this issue and should also look at this issue from other angles.
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