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."
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."
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