This week was troubling with the new law in Arizona allowing police to stop those who look “suspicious” and ask for immigration papers. Now, anyone who actually thinks about this will see that this will result in racial profiling. Pure and simple. I am pretty sure the local police in Arizona, or anywhere else, don’t have the ability to read minds and thus determine that someone in fact is here illegally.
Therefore, the will instead bucket those most likely to be from an illegal country by looking at their skin color. This blatant stereotyping is just plain wrong. No amount of justification can be made to support this position. The Nazis did this under Hitler and look what happened. Is this the individual he people of Arizona what to identify with? The new Nazis of the south?
I, as a US citizen, will never travel to Arizona as long as this particular law is in place. I have friends in Arizona, and I hope they are ashamed. I through we as a people were moving beyond this, but we tend to find those who will stoop to a new low to gain political power. Frankly, how can people be so ignorant?
Does anyone from Arizona care to comment?
But please, don’t tell me they are taking your jobs. These are jobs people just don’t want, and frankly, there is a long history of this as our country grew. Irish? Greek? They all came in both illegal and legal and took the jobs no one wanted.
Also please don’t use the argument about draining our social resources such as health care and schools. How many people live below the poverty line and a) don’t pay taxes, b) utilize medicare, and utilize the schools. By the definition above, those individuals are also receiving a free ride. How many individuals live well above the poverty line and cheat on their taxes? How many corporations shift their money offshore to skirt paying taxes? Unfortunately, these individuals have money and power, while the immigrants have little of either. We like to pick on the weak.
Shame on Arizona, and shame on this country for letting this to happen. BTW: Don’t look to Europe. They are just as bad, if not worse, than Arizona. We still have the best system, but it requires mending.
