The state of Arizona (USA) establish a law against illegal immigrants and has created controversy because it criminalize immigrants without documents and treats everybody who looks like immigrants like criminal suspects without knowing if they are truly Americans or legal immigrants.
This is an intolerant racist law because it judges people based on their aspects, it violate human rights like the equality treatment all people are in-title to and creates a symbolic wall to stop immigration and doesn´t let immigrants live the American dream.
The law has created awareness on unfair treatment and judgment and has driven the state back to the years where the different were hated and punished.
It has made public figures such as Shakira that are against it to speak out and express their point of view as we can see in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFQD-avN-8
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFQD-avN-8
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Daniela, very interesting entry. Unfortunately the law has created a greater impact, not just the discrimination against migrants, illegal or not. This law has established racist feelings on the northamercian population, and currently similar laws were introduced in other states such as Rhode Island, south Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota. Hope it does not go beyond the idea.
ReplyDeleteGreat topic, this law is racist and goes deeply into the "fear" of american culture to the foreign.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Daniela,it is a very radical and unfair law. There are many llegal immigrants that dont deserve to be discriminated and treated this way.
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