Thousands Pour Into Phoinex For Immigration Protest

CNN:

They came from Los Angeles and San Diego, and Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Chicago, Seattle and, of course, Arizona — a river of humanity flooding the Phoenix streets to protest the state’s controversial immigration law.

The Arizona legislature passed the bill earlier this year and the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed it. In two more months, unless the law is overturned in court, police in Arizona will be allowed to check the residency status of anyone who is being investigated for a crime or possible legal infraction if there is reasonable suspicion the person is in the United States illegally.

This law has been in the news for a while now, and it’s just plain inconsiderate. That’s the only word I can use to describe it. Anyone who looks Hispanic can get pulled over twenty times a day and asked the same question over and over. I can’t count how many times I’ve been questioned for vagrancy, and now it’s gotten to the point of being about race? The law will take valuable time out of the lives of hundreds of people and also away from the policemen who should be keeping real criminals off the street.

The law has been criticized by almost everyone, including the United Nations, but Arizona is still too stubborn to overturn it for whatever reason. And now it has gotten to the point that citizens of other states descending upon Arizona to protest. If that’s not a slap in the face, I don’t know what is.

This law is a terrible solution to the immigration problem and encourages racial profiling, which I thought was illegal.