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The American Civil Liberties Union says that “A lot of people are outraged about Arizona's new racial profiling, "show me your papers" law” and today they decided to take action to do something about it.
On Monday, May 17, they went to federal court to block the discriminatory law from taking effect.
“In the coming days and weeks, ACLU legal teams and advocates will go all-out to stop this poisonous policy from taking hold in Arizona”.
The statement continues:
Racial profiling is a deeply-offensive affront to the American values of justice and fairness. And using race to demand that people produce "papers" to prove who they are is a police-state tactic that is completely unacceptable in America. If we don't stop this law now, similar ones could spread across the nation. Already, state lawmakers in at least 10 other states have promised to bring similar bills to their legislatures.
That's why we're taking Arizona to court, along with our partners the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, and a number of other civil rights groups.
(End of Letter)
The law is known as SB1070 and grants local and state police the authority to implement and enforce immigration law. Until now, immigration enforcement has been a function of the US Immigration and Custom Enforcement or “ICE”; as it is better known.
By using scare tactics like high crime rates caused by “illegal aliens” as Arizona officials refer to them, state legislators were able to exert enough pressure to get the law passed.
Since the signing of the legislation though, many national media stories have refuted the assertion by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer that out of control
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