Recently, Arizona has made a new law that deals with immigration. It states that immigrants must carry their registration documents with them at all times. It also requires the police to question people if there's any reason to suspect that they are illegal immigrants. Also, it targets people who hire illegal immigrant laborers, and the people who knowingly transport them.
There are other states who agree with them, and they would like to create a similiar law. Democrates are trying to pass a bill to deal with illegal immigrants nationally; they are looking for support from republicans, but if they don't get any they'll continue to try for the bill without them.
President Obama and many others do not support the law and what its going to do. They say that it will allow people to discriminate against hispanics, it will allow the police to detain anyone that they suspect to be an illegal immigrant (legal and illegal), and racial profiling. Obama says that it undermines the fairness that the country cherishes.
I agree with the law. I think that it is fair and that it will not allow discrimination, racial profiling, and the police to detain legal people. I also think that it will stop some of the illegal immigration and will make people not want to transport or hire illegal immigrants.
Links: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/carefully-crafted-immigration-law-arizona
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-23/politics/immigration.faq_1_immigration-reform-law-institute-immigrant-advocates-illegal?_s=PM:POLITICS
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
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