Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Arizona Law

The Arizona law is a law recently passed in Arizona allowing police to search and ask for proof of immigration status based upon reasonable suspicion. My question is do you think it is constitutional?

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/arizona-governor-meets-with-obama/?scp=2&sq=arizona%20law&st=cse

5 comments:

PaigeS said...

I think this question came up during our classroom debate on the issue of immigration. I have no issue with this. I think that if there is reason to be believe that someone is here illegally it is the police's job to investigate and take care of it - trying to keep our country healthy. I do realize that this may lead to racial profiling, but I also think that that does already exist all over the rest of the country it may just be intensified in Arizona.

Hannah T said...

I agree with Paige as well. If the police want to look at your immigration papers than they have the right to. If someone is here illegally than they are having to risk being caught by the police. With the racial profiling I think it will lead to it a little but like Paige said it exists everywhere.

Irini said...
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Irini said...

I think the border should be protected by both countries not just one and that the US should get an easier short-term permit for people to come so that we have less border hoppers. And at least this law will help identify them if not find suitable consequences towards the intruders, though not anything severe, maybe a fine of a bit of parol or something

Boone said...

Being that we don't live in Arizona I haven't paid terribly close attention to this law, but the way its been explained to me, it seems constitutional. Its a fact that the law prohibits suspicion based solely on race, so from a 14th amendment perspective they're in the clear. As long as no one's citizenship is investigated without reasonable suspicion, which is what the law says should happen, then I don't really have a problem with it. Obviously I have different ideas about solving the root cause of illegal immigration but that's a story for another day...