...Immigration is something that I have seen and have heard people experience. Growing up you here unbelievable stories of how people have died and suffered in trying to cross the border. My dad came here to escape the civil war in El Salvador and my mom came for a better future. They meet in Washington D.C. and when they were both 20 years old they got married and had me when they were 21. My mom is now a proud American citizen and my dad is a resident. Thanks to the less strict laws that were placed when they were younger they were able to stay here with permission from the government. If it wasn’t for their strength and endurance to overcome their struggles to be where they are now, I wouldn’t be here writing this paper. Immigration is such...
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...PHIL 3515 Arizona Immigration Law-Was it wrong? If a state passes through a law that takes away people’s rights and freedom because you’re considered to be a minority, is it racist? The law I’m referring to is the Arizona SB 1070, which was introduced in 2010 by the Arizona House Bill 2162, and then signed by Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona.2 The Arizona SB 1070 (also known as The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act) is a legislative Act in Arizona that at the time it was brought up, it was the widest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history.2 The law reads that every alien living in the United States over that is fourteen years or older must have registration papers or documents in their possession at all times; if this condition isn’t followed, its considered a federal misdemeanor crime. The law also allows people in the police force to stop anyone who looks or seems to be from another country, to check if they have the right documents in their possession.2. While the law specifies who “aliens are”, the law makers and officials clearly target the Hispanic race in living in Arizona. According to the Census numbers, the Hispanic population has grown over 50% from 1990 to 2012, which also includes the number of undocumented immigrants living in Arizona.4 The total Latino population in Arizona is increasing every year and the Arizona officials believe that the only way to contain it is by forcing them out of the country. 4 I believe...
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...Arizona Senate Bill 1070 Support Our Law Enforcem ent and Safe Neighborhoods Act Abstract On April 23, 2010 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 into law in order to resolve immigration problems in her state (McFayden, 2011). It is one of the toughest pieces of legislation in the nation. SB 1070 allows Arizona law enforcement to stop, detain, and arrest any undocumented immigrants if the officers have a “reasonable suspicion.” This law not only makes it a crime to be in the Arizona illegally, but also a crime to transport or hire someone for employment as well (McFayden, 2011). Judicial Watch (2011) pointed out that Arizona has a right to defend itself under the Constitution if the federal government fails to stop illegal immigrants from crossing its border. In addition, this article confirmed that the creating of SB 1070 complied with the relevant federal, state and local laws, the Arizona Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution. The SB 1070 complements the immigration law rather than usurping the federal jurisdiction. It protects the American citizens and the legal immigrants in Arizona through a legislation that is enforceable against the illegal immigrants, the employers who engage in hiring the illegal immigrants, and those who are involved in transporting the illegal immigrants. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act Introduction On April 23, 2010 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070...
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...United States v. Arizona: The Support Our Law Enforcement and Neighborhoods Act is Preempted and Discriminatory Melissa Goolsarran Table of Contents I. Introduction 1 II. Perspective: Immigration, Discrimination, and Limitations on State Laws 3 III. Background: United States v. Arizona 9 A. S.B. 1070 and the Legislature’s Justification 10 B. The Decision: United States v. Arizona 18 IV. Analysis: S.B. 1070 is Preempted by Federal Immigration Law and Also Discriminatory 23 A. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Correctly found that S.B. 1070 is Preempted Because it Interferes with the Administration and Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws 24 B. S.B. 1070 Discriminates on the Basis of Race or National Origin 32 V. Comment and Conclusion: Effects of the Arizona Law 36 I. Introduction The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (“S.B. 1070”) has been the subject of many debates for both its potential impact on federal immigration laws and discrimination against citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin. The Arizona State Legislature passed S.B. 1070 to reduce the continuous rise in the number of illegal immigrants and alleged consequent rise in crime rates in the state. Among other provisions, the law requires officers to check a person's immigration status, criminalizes an alien’s failure to comply with federal registration laws and working without authorization, and authorizes warrantless arrests where there is probable cause...
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...for my assignment is titled “Supreme Court mostly rejects Arizona immigration law; gov says ‘heart’ remains.” Immigration is a controversial area for society and the law in United States, even more so after the terrorist attacks in 2001. The state of Arizona in April 2010 implemented laws that would crack down on immigration violators to protect the citizens of Arizona and the citizens of the United States. The summary of what this article covers is the U.S. Supreme court struck down key portions of a law that was enacted by the state of Arizona in April 2010. According to the Cohen (2012) website Arizona sought to deter illegal immigration that allows a provision to check a person’s immigration status while still enforcing other laws. The ruling behind the Supreme Court’s decision is that the federal government has the power that can block any law and all of Arizona’s authority figures must comply with the federal law when conducting any immigration status checks or they may face challenges considered to be unconstitutional. What interested me the most about the article is the controversy that surrounds this subject. Racial profiling is a controversial subject that brings much debate with it. When one looks at the law and what law enforcement officers do as part of their duty, at times there is racial profiling that will take place. In the state of Arizona, illegal immigration is a problem and for many the new law implemented by officials believed to have targeted the Latino...
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...Show me your papers For the past two years, the state of Arizona has been causing a huge controversy that arose due to the enactment of the Senate Bill 1070, known as the Arizona law. This arguable state law gives the right to police officers to attain immigrants and take them into custody during lawful contact if they are found to not be carrying legal documents to prove that they are rightful immigrants of the United States. The Arizona law has caused a stir, as immigrants feel that they are not being treated fairly as other citizens and harshly targeted. Despite this, the Arizona law is a privilege to the state, for it gives a hand to the federal government when dealing with crimes affiliated with illegal immigration. Many senators and representatives of the state of Arizona support this law in order to guard citizens and lawful residents against vicious crimes that could be committed by illegal immigrants. According to John C. Eastman the state of Arizona has been challenged by crucial illegal immigration problems even before the passing of SB1070. These problems include the increased rate of drug usage, human-smuggling, unlawful transportation of those aliens, and huge numbers of illegal immigrants being captured at the Arizona-Mexico border. CBS news reported that “Forty-five percent of all immigrant arrests by U.S. Customs and Border Protection are made in Arizona, and smugglers use Phoenix as a hub for moving illegal immigrants across the country.” Further, Governor...
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...Jeffrey Coleman POS 1010 Arizona vs. United States In 2010, Arizona highlighted policies that would ultimately affect the lives of many immigrants who came into the U.S without legal permission. Many civil rights groups had seen this as racial bias. These became an issue with federal government and they challenge this as “unconstitutional” this act was in fear that Arizona was trying to neglect the sovereign powers of the federal government on federal immigration laws. Arizona passed the law that makes it a state misdemeanor crime for any aliens or immigrants to be in the state of Arizona without carrying the required documents of registration. This law was made clear and constitutional through the 10th amendment. This Amendment states that “Those powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or to the people”. In clearer words this gives states the power that federal government does not cover by the constitution or “police powers”. For example if Arizona wants to exercise a new law in there state they have the right to do so if the national government to cover that subject of matter of the law. People who don’t agree with this law say that this encourages racial profiling, while people who support this law say that this prohibits the use of a race as the sole basis for investigating immigration status. This law was later modified by Arizona House Bill 2162 to address the issues...
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...Adopting Arizona’s Immigration Law in All states Does politics have the upper hand on humanity in Arizona's immigration law SB-1070. This law should be abolished because it is racist, unfair and degrading to legal and illegal Latino immigrants? Immigration has always presented a problem for America and we now find ourselves faced with the issue on a large political scale. On July 29, 2010, the United States of America listened in as Arizona State put into effect their own immigration law. With the backing of Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina Arizona has set the presence for illegal immigrants to face the law. The new law “directs officers to question people about their immigration status during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops, and if there's a reasonable suspicion they're in the U.S. illegally they will be deported”. “Arizona’s illegal alien population is 460,000 and according to a 2008 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Georgia illegal alien population is 490,000”. (Inger Eberhart, 2010). As Americans we need to support Arizona’s efforts to clean house in fight of illegal aliens in the U.S. Most critics are saying that this is the strictest measure in generations for the detaining of illegal immigrants. The key work is “ILLEGAL”. Every American knows that if it is illegal then you should not be doing it, adolescent 101, but we live in a time where people feel that illegal aliens...
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...deportation may not be the answer either. America is a melting pot in which many cultures have peacefully come to make their lives as American citizens. The issue of illegal aliens has divided this nation which is in need of unity and consistency in law enforcement. Research shows that in order to reduce illegal immigration, the American government must enforce the current laws, secure the American Mexican border, eliminate the magnets that attract illegal aliens (such as: employment, anchor babies, social services) and offer no tolerance for criminal activity. Understanding the Problem Many people enter this country through the American Mexican border and usually can do so unchallenged. By not securing the southern border, America has left an opening that anyone can come through. It is not just illegal aliens that cross that border. America is exposed to entry by terrorists, drug smugglers and human trafficking. (Hedgecock, 2010, para 17-19) Another avenue used to enter this country is through Visas. With this process individuals come here through legal channels and then become illegal afterwards by staying on after their Visa expires. Statistically “40% of illegals entered legally and in bad faith overstayed their visas.” (Immigration counters, n.d. para 3) Currently...
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...Criminal Law Paper A recent Supreme Court Case that was decided was ARIZONA et al. v. UNITED STATES. This case was argued on April, 25, 2012 and a decision was made on June 25, 2012. This case came about in 2010 when the state of Arizona enacted a statute known as S.B. 1070. This statute addresses the large number of illegal aliens that are in the state of Arizona. “Fed up with illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico -- and what they say is the federal government's inability to stop it -- legislators in Arizona passed the tough immigration law in 2010. The federal government sued, saying that Arizona overreached.” I have been interested in this case since hearing about it. The first thing that actually came to my mind was racial profiling. I understand that the United States has a huge problem on their hands attempting to control this problem. It was interesting to me to see a state attempt to make a state law that would supersede federal law. As a police officer myself, I can see this becoming a racial profiling issue. Without certain guidelines in place, this would lead to many unanswered questions. The state that I reside in is Georgia. Georgia also has a high population of immigrants, so I am curious as to how this will turnout in the end and affect other states. “The primary purpose of the law is to “discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States.” The primary jurisdiction would be...
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...Since the amnesty Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 IRCS (USCIS 1986) signed by the President Ronald Regal, which provided amnesty for 3 million illegal immigrants, in returns for increased border security and penalties for companies “knowingly” hiring illegal immigrants. Aside from creating the H-2A visa seasonal employment, IRCA failed to create new avenue for legal immigration. The combination of amnesty and inadequate avenue for legal immigration exacerbated the problem for illegal immigration. The law was supposed to be a comprehensive solution with provision intended to clamp down on border security but those provision were never enforced and the subsequent explosion in illegal crossing has resulted in more than 11 illegal immigrants living in the United States now. Texas is the state with most illegal immigrants with an estimated of 1.8 million illegal immigrant living in Texas now, compared to 1.1 million in 2000 (???). In ten years, that represents increase of 54 percent or 70,000.00 persons each year coming to the State illegally. The amnesty of 1986 brought many benefits to the illegal immigrants but also the immediate family members such as spouses, children and parents were also benefited because they could join the family member in the United States later on. I was personally one of the benefited with this amnesty because I could immigrate to the United States in the late 1990’s. During the last 20 years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called...
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...Criminal Law Paper Humberto Camacho CJA/354 Criminal Law July 13, 2015 Instructor Peter Lukevich Criminal Law Paper A recent Supreme Court Case that was decided was ARIZONA et al. v. UNITED STATES. This case was argued on April, 25, 2012 and a decision was made on June 25, 2012. This case came about in 2010 when the state of Arizona enacted a statute known as S.B. 1070. This statute addresses the large number of illegal aliens that are in the state of Arizona. “Fed up with illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico -- and what they say is the federal government's inability to stop it -- legislators in Arizona passed the tough immigration law in 2010. The federal government sued, saying that Arizona overreached.” I have been interested in this case since hearing about it. The first thing that actually came to my mind was racial profiling. I understand that the United States has a huge problem on their hands attempting to control this problem. It was interesting to me to see a state attempt to make a state law that would supersede federal law. As a police officer myself, I can see this becoming a racial profiling issue. Without certain guidelines in place, this would lead to many unanswered questions. The state that I reside in is Georgia. Georgia also has a high population of immigrants, so I am curious as to how this will turnout in the end and affect other states. According to "Supreme Court Of The United States " (2012), “The primary purpose of the law is to...
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...Steven Klein 16 November 2015 Mr. Nealy ENG102 U.S. Immigration Throughout the history of the United States immigration has become apart of our country’s fabric which, began centuries ago. Only to become a hot topic in the US in recent years with its primary focus being illegal immigrants. Illegal immigration is when people enter a country without government permission. As of 2008 the Center for Immigration Studies estimated that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in the US which is down from 2007‘s 12.5 million people. Although the Center for Immigration Studies estimates are very different from other estimates that range from 7 to 20 million. While the Pew Hispanic Center estimated in March of 2009 there are 11.1 million illegal immigrants and that number is from March 2007’s peak of 12 million. The exact number of illegal immigrants is unknown because they are illegal immigrants. A 2005 report from the Pew Hispanic Center stated that 22% of illegal immigrants were from Latin American Countries, mostly from Central America, 13% from Asia, 56% from Mexico, with 6% between Europe and Canada, and 3% were from the rest of the world and Africa. In the United States alone every day there are almost 70,000 foreigners to migrate here. Within those 70,000 over 60,000 of them are businessmen, travelers and students; there are about 5,000 that are illegal immigrants; with 2,000 legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants have been and has continued to outnumber the number of legal...
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...Levels of government on immigration issue An issue that plagues many border states and is a hot topic in Arizona is immigration reform. The increase of illegal immigrate crossing the border, taking needed jobs, and receiving benefits such as welfare without paying taxes, is only half of the issue. The other half would be one of Mexico's most powerful drug organizations known as The Sinaloa Cartel. With the cartel's greedy desire to smuggle drugs into the country, the amount of home invasions, burglary, theft, and killings has left the citizens of Arizona in fear. Making the state government take extreme measure in hopes of protecting its people. Measures such as the governor of Arizona Jan Brewer speaking with President Barack Obama on the problem of immigration and boarder security. Arizona passed a legislative act called the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (Arizona SB 1070), Which to this date is the strictest anti-illegal immigration measure that has taken place in the United States. The Arizona Act required law enforcement officers to verify if an individual is in the state legally or not. This is done by viewing registration documents whenever one is pulled over in a traffic violation, detention, arrest, or when an officer though an individual was in the country illegally. This Act caused much controversy across the nation from those who approved the Act and praised Arizona of finally taking action to protect our nations...
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...state of Arizona depends on numerous law enforcement agencies to protect the citizens. The agencies include local, county, state, and federal agencies. Each agency serves its purpose while intersecting with the others to ensure safety for the community. The Phoenix Police Department is a local law enforcement agency in Phoenix, Arizona. “The Phoenix Police Department, founded in 1881, has grown to nearly 3,000 sworn officers and is committed to providing world class police services to nearly 1.5 million people” (“The Blue Line”, 2007-2009, para. 4). Besides patrol officers, the agency also employs canine trainers, drug enforcement agents, detectives, a SWAT team, and a bomb squad. “The mission of the Phoenix Police Department is to provide community-oriented law enforcement designed to protect life and property, and maintain order, while assuring fair and equal treatment for all” (City of Phoenix, n.d., Phoenix Police Mission Statement). The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is a county agency that serves Maricopa County in Arizona. The agency works closely with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The Sheriff’s Office has special enforcement divisions that include a SWAT team, a canine unit, an aviation team, lake patrol, and mountain patrol. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (2013) website states that their mission statement is “The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with our citizens and contract cities, will enforce state laws, deter criminal...
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