The Arizona Governor, Jan Brewer signed the bill on illegal immigration into law. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants. According to NY Times, this law “the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.”
How will the Police determine who to suspect? That is my simple question. Recently my husband had a very heated online “discussion” with his old friend who is a cop. He had spent several days arguing back and forth with the friend. The friend could just not answer the simple question I have just asked. He admitted that “racial profiling” would likely be employed, after avoiding that admission for more than 30 hours. He believed that it was unfortunate but necessary and would not violate the fourth amendment.
Other men joined the discussion. However they were too close-minded and outraged at people on the left and progressive and they did not make a logical argument. I can tell that these people just hate liberals. I felt also very disappointed that the county that we will be living in in the near future is so divided and there is a lot of hatred and anger. I realized that the antagonism toward the Obama administration and liberals is so powerful and so illogical.
I am very concerned. If this Arizona law stands, how much division will be created (rather than been fixed) at the boarder and in other states around the country if they follow suite.
I am also concerned about the police’s judgement. Ezra Klein stated, “you might say, most cops are good guys, and they’ll use it responsibly. And some cops aren’t good guys, and they won’t use the law responsibly and they won’t deal with the fear and anger it generates diplomatically.”
It is true that the immigration policy should be reconsidered to suite the current situation, however this law will only further complicate the already complicated immigration problems, rather than resolving the situation.
Maho
