POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Civil Liberties Union, Arizona Sb 1070, Reform War
5 May 2018
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In addition to the positive affect the flow of immigration has had on the country as a
whole, specifically in the state of Arizona new immigration laws create new crimes to give
police authority to detain the immigrants they have suspicion of legitimate citizenship. Beyond
the new development of new classes of crimes created especially to target those found to be
illegal immigrants or those who can fail to prove citizenship or legal residence, in the country
which prides itself as the land of the free, practical limits have been placed on the “free speech”
the country itself declares in its first amendment of its Constitution. Activists, such as those who
represent the American Civil Liberties Union lead the pack of irate American citizens who are
staunchly against the legislation that explicitly deprives the immigrants of the basic rights that
the country’s Constitution guarantees. (Arizona Immigration Law..) As the local representatives
charged to carry out the laws of the nation, states, and localities that support such legislation, law
enforcement is systematically depriving human beings of rights that the American public holds
dear. It is because of these actions, as carried out by local police that allow the continuation of
unjust practices such as racial profiling in the everyday lives of citizens and illegal aliens alike.
Unfortunately for the American public, the implementation of policies such as the newest string
of immigration reform laws such as those in Arizona, affect not only the population intended
population but American citizens as well. Another state, which has enacted a similar set of new
immigration control standards similar to Arizona, Alabama, has seen drastic impact on the
classroom specifically as it regards to their Hispanic student population. In Montgomery county
Alabama, upon the clearing of new legislation, schools reported two hundred students of Hispanic
descent missing from classrooms in an attempt to protect themselves and their families from
threats of deportation. Similar trends occurred elsewhere in Alabama. In a small town, Albertville,
with a population of only about four thousand, twenty-two percent of which is Hispanic, schools
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