Amnesty International Reacts to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Signing into Law SB1070
by Danny Fisher
"Demonstrators hold hands while protesting a new immigration law outside the Arizona State Capitol building on April 23, 2010, in Phoenix." Photo by Getty Images.
This from Human Rights Now – The Amnesty International USA Web Log:
Amnesty International is extremely disappointed that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB1070, a bill that will significantly increase the likelihood of racial profiling, arbitrary arrests, and detentions in the state. By forcing Arizona police, the vast majority of whom opposed this law, to implement it or face lawsuits is bad policy and will drastically undermine communication between communities of color and the police who are supposed to keep them safe.
As the governor said when signing the bill, national immigration legislation is desperately needed, but the absence of it does not abdicate the governor’s own responsibility to preserve, promote, and protect the human rights of every individual in Arizona, whether citizen, resident, or visitor. Human rights exist regardless of nationality, ethnicity or immigration status. In passing SB1070, Arizona public officials have ignored this truth to the detriment of every individual who passes through the state.
Agreed.
I AM A FIRST GENERATION BORN MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMAN. MY PARENTS WERE IMMIGRANTS FROM MEXICO. THE LAW THAT WAS SIGNED BY GOV. BREWER IS AN EMBARRASMENT TO ARIZONA. ALONG WITH OUR GUN LAWS RECENTLY PASSED, WE NOW HAVE TAKEN A STEP BACK INTO THE LAST CENTURY. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? HOW DID THIS NIGHTMARE BECOME A REALITY? WE CALL UPON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO 1. BOYCOTT AZ. 2. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE AND VOICE YOUR CONCERN, AZ IS A STATE NOTA COUNTRY.3. PRAY FOR OUR PEOPLE WE WILL SEE MANY ABUSES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU.
As someone with an immigrant wife and with a child, I too abhor this “law,” but I’d also submit the “law” is, as they say, an epic fail.
How are they going to get all those Canadians anyway?