ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW

Arizona Immigration Law

Arizona Immigration Law

The tequila is flowing to Mexico, and even more in U.S. Border States. This is the Mayo, celebrating the Mexican victory over the French army on 5 May 1862. But when the Arizona just passed a law against the ultra-repressive undocumented, the festival has turned into mobilizing the Latino community.

Arizona passes the law most repressive never voted against the illegal immigrants in an American State. It essentially enables the police to check the immigration status of anyone in case of "reasonable doubt". Opponents of the text immediately denounced the legalization of racial profiling. (Rau, 2010)

A week later, the parliamentary amend the text to ease tensions. Now, the controls cannot be performed in cases of suspected crime.

For two weeks, many events in Phoenix, Arizona, Dallas, Texas, or Los Angeles, have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people. Organizations of civil rights as ACLU, also give voice. One of his spokesmen in the 20minutes.fr says: "That the police gave his word and swear that there will be no 'racial profiling', not reassure anyone." On its website, the organization deems changes "cosmetic." But the most publicized are the people and policies. "You imagine, you're Hispanic and you go out without your papers to eat ice cream with your kids, and you risk being molested?" Loose Barack Obama , who believes the law is "ill conceived" and "undermining the democratic foundations "U.S. "Nobody except the Nazis, never asked people to show their papers in the street, carried away the creator of the animated series Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane. Wednesday's NBA, Phoenix Suns had to play against San Antonio with a jersey renaming the "Los Suns". Finally, the municipalities of San Diego to Boston, the Mexican government, numerous calls for a boycott of Arizona have been launched (official visits, tourism, university enrollment. (Dinan, 2010)

Nobody, apart from Republican leaning far to the right as Tom Tancredo, no one dares to publicly support the legislation. Yet in the polls, more than two Arizona residents are in favor of three. Nationally, 59% of Americans are in favor, 32% cons.

After the failure of a bipartisan comprehensive reform in 2007 (including John McCain was one of the architects), the issue of illegal immigration has been overshadowed by economic reforms and health insurance. Legal experts are debating whether the new Arizona law could be declared unconstitutional at the federal level. (Riccardi, 2010)

In all cases, pressure is increasing on Obama to put the issue of comprehensive immigration reform on the table.

The Arizona immigration law comes into effect today but the most controversial provisions. Susan Bolton requested a preliminary challenge to SB 1070 on the grounds that immigration is a federal jurisdiction.

Bolton blocked, among others, the part of the law requiring the police determine the immigration status of anyone who was arrested and suspected that was an illegal immigrant. The judge also retained the provisions that required immigrants carry their documents at any time, and it considered a crime for undocumented workers to seek employment immigration ...