Arizona SB 1070

Outline:

A. Introductory Paragraph
a. Hook
b. Personal Opinion
c. Brief description of the law
d. Thesis statement

B. Police officers must arrest suspected people basing on their physical appearance
a. It was shown that police officers disagree with the legislation
b. Negative effect when people is faced to situations of emergency

C. People must carry their papers for avoiding to be arrested.
a. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials talked about violence of civil rights
b. The affects your freedom
c. The law affects tourism

D. Factories, bars, restaurants etc. do not shelter, hire or transport foreign people.
a. The law affects economically
b. American big chains would have to stop selling because immigrants will not work for them

E. Conclusion
a. Date of the approval of Arizona SB 1070
b. How the legislation was called
c. Personal Opinion




Arizona SB 1070

Have you ever imagined to be arrested just by your physical appearance? Believe it or not, this is an aberrant and ridiculous fact which is happening in this current century. I am totally bewildered because of the way people are being treated in Arizona. It was found (“Arizona SB 1070,” n.d) that this law will decrease illegal immigration but I believe there are many distinct wise to combat immigration. The approval of SB 1070 directly affects Latin American especially Mexican people. Just as a note; on May 2010 over fifty undocumented Mexican people were arrested during a protest in front of the White House. In addition, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the law in over 70 cities. What this law promotes is racial profiling, forcing officers to determine the immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant, commanding foreign people to carry papers all the time, and reprimanding factories which hire illegal immigrants.

The police must arrest people they consider suspected of crimes basing on their physical appearance, and the officers do not have to take into consideration those people is American citizens or not, legal or immigrants. According to (“La Jornada,” 2010) a survey showed that not all of people agree with the law. Even the Sheriff Tony Estrada expressed his disagreement; he said “How could I distinguish between a Mexican to another one? How could we determine who legal or illegal is?” Additionally, that survey also showed that The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police criticized the legislation and called it “problematic”. They said that immigration has to be controlled by the Federal Government instead of the State. Furthermore, illegal immigrants may come to fear the police and not ask them help in situations of emergency.

According to (“Arizona State Senate,” 2010) the legislation considers a misdemeanor crime for foreign people to be in Arizona without their required documents. It was explained (“Arizona SB 1070,” n.d) that The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials said that this legislation is unconstitutional and violets civil rights of all Arizonans. Moreover, this affects directly your freedom; just imagine, every time you need to go out for something you must carry papers for you are not arrested. On the other hand, the approval of the law is affecting tourism. I would not visit a place where all the time polices are asking me my papers for being able to walk quietly, to shop, to study, etc.

To avoid illegal immigration; factories, bars, restaurants etc. do not shelter, hire or transport foreign people. In this way “aliens” will not get a job as a result they will abandon Arizona and illegal immigration will decrease. What the Governor Jan Brewer never thought is that her law will affect Arizona economically. Downtown you cannot see departmental stores from the American big chains, because business is made in small establishments. As a result those big companies would have to stop selling because just immigrants accept to work there by minimal salary. Nobody else accepts those conditions.

To sum up; a research (“Arizona SB 1070,” n.d) argued that the legislation was signed by Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010 but it was going into effect on July 29, 2010, ninety days after the end of the legislative session. That terrific legislation was called “The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act or better known as Arizona SB 1070”. Something that I cannot understand yet is that this legislation has been applied in a place where 80 % of the population speaks Spanish and their appearance is like Latin American people. That makes me think that the legislation has the purpose of discrimination.




References*

Jornada: La SB 1070: ley indigna y vergonzosa. La Jornada en Internet. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/07/28/index.php?section=sociedad&article=040a1soc

Arizona SB 1070 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070

Research. (2010, January 15). SB1070 - 492R - Senate Fact Sheet. Arizona State Legislature. Retrieved November 3, 2010, from http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/summary/s.1070pshs.doc.htm