The new immigration law passed in Arizona was summed up in the Huffington Post quite well. It reads,
The latest bill would make it a state crime for illegal immigrants to not have an alien registration document. It also would require police to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally.How is this anything but racial profiling? What other suspicion are these cops gonna have than the color of their skin and how they pronounce their vowels? Even McCain says it is what it is.
Since Dec 2006, 22,700 people have died to do cartel violence. Violence stemming from our insatiable demand for drugs in this country. Why not attack this problem where it lies, drugs and money. Asylum requests have sky rocketed recently as people flee their war torn neighborhoods. Schools are swelling because not only single men are crossing the boarder now but families escaping machine gun fire and shoot-outs in broad day light. Bullying hard working people already here is not the answer. Kill the problem at its core with drug rehab and other demand reducing actions allowing people to live where they are. It's obvious to me at least that people from Mexico love their home. The majority come here out of desperation. Supply and demand make it worth the trip. We demand cheap labor and chemicals in our blood stream. It all started with this basic economic concept and the solution must come from the same place.
Jake
