Recently in April, the state of Arizona passed an immigration law in which police officers have all the right to demand papers from any person they "suspect" to be an illegal immigrant. This sparked controversy across the nation, within all honesty, we all know that the main ethnicity to be targeted by the ratification of this bill, is the Latino race. Critics and other credible civil liberty leaders state that police officers are not sufficiently trained to overlook and ignore the motive to convict someone of being "illegal" solely based on their physical and ethnic background.
I think this law is unconstitutional, not because I am Latino myself, but because it is surely a violation of personal privacy. This immigration law, i'm my opinion was made to specifically target Hispanics, there are plenty of illegal immigrants aside from Latinos, for example, Europeans, Canadian, Asians...the list goes on, but you do not hear politicians making a big deal about them (I say this with all due respect.) My reasoning is, how can you pass a law like this, that allows law enforcement to assume someone is illegal simply because he or she suspects it at a glance. Obviously, an "American" won't be stopped, but whats makes an American, American? Stereotypicaly, Americans are "white," well aren't most Canadians or Europeans also "white?" so how will they be stopped, they wont. This is simply racism incognito.
