"PROPS TO ARIZONA"

In the Constitution Correctness blog the article “Props to Arizona,” written by classmate Brooke Christensen, states in her article that critics of the law feel that Arizona’s new immigration law will encourage racial profiling among law enforcement officials and endanger civil rights in the state. Yet supporters think that it is necessary in order to decrease crime rates and to restore the law in this state. Arizona is clearly has a problem with illegal immigrants but I disagree with how they are trying to resolve the problem.
I would have to say that I am one that feels that Arizona’s new immigration law does encourage racial profiling and will endanger civil rights not only in this state but in many other states that adopt the same immigration law in their state. I disagree that law enforcement will have the right to stop someone based on suspicious and the color of their skin or because they look to be Mexican. I was born here in the United States and I have my constitutional rights but because I have dark hair, dark brown eyes and dark skin I could be mistaken for someone from Mexico, an illegal immigrant. How does one determine who is an illegal immigrant and who is an American just by looking at the person. Now you can’t tell me that this is not racial profiling. I do agree that the U.S. has a problem with illegal immigrant not only in Arizona but this does not solve that problem.
I do agree with Brooke that it isn’t fair that illegal immigrants come into our
country and get all the benefits that they can get, when we have other immigrants here who have legally come into this country and are struggling to get the same benefits. That U.S. citizens and legal citizens have to pay taxes which are used on illegal immigrants but yet illegal immigrants don’t pay a dime.
I’m not sure what the answer is to this problem but clearly it is a problem. My opinion is that we need to make it difficult for illegal immigrants to be able to get a job or public benefits unless they are here legally. I do believe that we make public benefits to accessible to illegal immigrants which just encourages more illegal to come over illegally knowing that they will not have any struggles.
I do believe that we need to continue to crack down on illegal immigrants and those that are caught should be deported.

MEXICAN STANDOFF

Don't blame Arizonans—or immigrants—for the state's draconian new law.

The article "Mexican Standoff " by Eve Conant can be found at Newsweek.com. Arizona has adopted a new immigration law that obligates authorities to check the documents of anyone who they believe is in the country illegally. Based only on a "reasonable suspicion" during a "lawful" stop. Although, some people are shocked at the citizens who support the bill and accuse lawmakers of acting like Nazis, the article explains why so many Arizonans want this.
Imagine living in fear knowing that outside your window, what you would see in a movie, is actually in real life in your own neighborhood, human traffickers, and drug dealers armed with AK 47s and pit bulls. Children who are not allowed to play outside for fear of gun shots that are not uncommon and heard daily. This article talks about drop houses, where deperate laborers are housed and made to live 30 to a room with their shoes removed to keep them from escaping.
Now a days, we have people sleeping armed at night for the fear of the violence that is occurring daily. Who would have believed that just four years ago the neighborhood consisted of little old ladies with their poodles. In reading this article, I see why Arizonans agreed to adopt the new immigration law. Clearly, there needs to be a solution to the problems that Arizona and others states are experiencing with drug cartel. What that solution is I’m not sure. But I do agree with the statement made by U.S. marshal for Arizona, David Gonzales, favors an approach backed by many other law-enforcement and immigration specialists: "the federal government, he says, must step in to make the border more secure and to amend the system so more Mexicans can enter the country legally—without the "help" of criminal cartels."