The ACLU is suing the State of Arizona over SB 1070 racial profiling law! Here is the email we received from them today:
Stand with the ACLU in opposition of Arizona’s racial profiling law.
Dear ACLU Supporter,
A lot of people are outraged about Arizona’s new racial profiling, “show me your papers” law. And today, the ACLU is taking action.
Just a few hours ago, we went to federal court to block this discriminatory law from taking effect.
In the coming days and weeks, ACLU legal teams and advocates will go all-out to stop this poisonous policy from taking hold in Arizona.
But right now, we need to know: will you stand with us?
Racial profiling is a deeply-offensive affront to the American values of justice and fairness. And using race to demand that people produce “papers” to prove who they are is a police-state tactic that is completely unacceptable in America. If we don’t stop this law now, similar ones could spread across the nation. Already, state lawmakers in at least 10 other states have promised to bring similar bills to their legislatures.
That’s why we’re taking Arizona to court, along with our partners the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Immigration Law Center, and a number of other civil rights groups. Can we count you in to fight with us as we take on this dangerous law?
Stand with the ACLU in opposition of Arizona’s racial profiling law.
To help you show your public support for reversing this law, we’ll send you a free bumper sticker.
Under the new law, Arizona police will be required to ask people they stop for their citizenship papers based on “reasonable suspicion” that they are in the country unlawfully. And by leaving “reasonable suspicion” undefined, the law leaves police officers little choice but to act on appearance and language, inviting a new wave of rampant racial profiling.
Today, our lawyers took the first legal step to stop this law. And we’ll be organizing on the ground in Arizona, training volunteer lawyers to help people defend themselves against racial profiling. We won’t stand by while this law transforms Arizona into a place where anyone can be forced to “show papers” when they are stopped by police just because of how they look or talk or dress.
Racial profiling is unconstitutional, unacceptable and un-American. But, we’ll only stop extremism and injustice by acting together to end them.
We need you on board. Can we count you in?
For justice,
Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
ACLU
Just as I predicted all the excuses in the world, except facing the truth!
Numerous reason’s where offered Dr.l:
Single mothers
Welfare
No social stigmas regarding under age pregnancies… , etc.
You just need to go into any local welfare office, high school and hispanic community in California to see all the above.
I could not care less who the hell wrote the article, the fact that I am seeing it in communities all over Orange County give’s the article a legitimate edge!
Get off your hispanic soap box and Care about the communities that you would not be caught dead living in!
“Are saying that Santa Ana Hispanics and Hispanics in general in the USA are a tumor”
No Doctor, I view you’re enabling of social problems to be the cancer!
Your ideology is a cancer, and yes I would like it removed!
If my ideology, values, ethics, goals, passion, compassion are examples of Right Wing thinking, and you are the example of the Left, then I suggest you join me on the Right.
Because the Right seems to be just that RIGHT!
when the daily kooks and media matters write a piece . no one says anything i have seen vern and annoster use stories from there . but when someone uses another source to get some info . ITS A RIGHT WING SOURCE . its fox news , its the druge report meaning it does not count .? maybe we should what get all our info from msnbc . YEAH RIGHT
MQ,
No reasons are offered as to why certain social problems exist in some Hispanic and Black communities and not in other Hispanic and Black communities.
The differences are in economic development in these communities. You and your clan pose stupid articles that fuel your agenda to produce the perception that social problems within some Hispanic and Black neighborhoods are general in the Hispanic and Black communities.
Clearrly an attempt at propaganda in order to fuel hate. Sources like the one you posted is where you and your clan get the propaganda that fuels your bigotry and agenda which is to stigmitize a group(any group) in order to create hate.
Are you and your clan saying that the social issues you are concerned with are General in the Hispanic community?
Are and your clan saying these social issue of concern are genetic within the Hispanic and Black race?
Are you and your clan saying that these social issues of concern are cultural in the Hispanic and Black race?
Yeah, and you make statement that illegal immigration from South of the border has been just the bee’s Knee’s-NOT!
“Are you and your clan saying that the social issues you are concerned with are General in the Hispanic community?”
MQ says:
Hispanics, Doctor are the Spanish, Cubans etc.. NO, I am saying that social problems are becoming a MEXICAN problem.
66% of all illegal immigrants in this country are from Mexico, the rest a Mixture of Central America and then Cubans, Irish etc.
We do not have a problem with the Cubans, Irish, Dutch.
The problem is the enormous flow of illegal Aliens from Mexico, because it neighbors the United States Border.
“Are and your clan saying these social issue of concern are genetic within the Hispanic and Black race?”
MQ says:
The Richest man in the world is Mexican and one of the best Neurosurgeons in the US is black – So NO, I do not think it is genetic, I think it is simply the break down of FAMILY VALUES. I think the President of Mexico actually talked about the concern regarding the break down of the family in Mexico!
“Are you and your clan saying that these social issues of concern are cultural in the Hispanic and Black race?”
MQ says:
I think it has nothing to do with race! Social problem such as gang activity, children having children usually happen in countries that are third world. But here in the US gangs, underage pregnancy has increased more than any other industrialized country because the country has been flooded with a third world population. As far as the blacks are concerned knowing that about 72% of black women are having children out of wed lock. Single mothers are not the building blocks of a strong society.
The sad joke is that illegal immigrants are in the shadows all right, the shadow of the welfare office!
The best single thing we could do in this country is cut off Welfare to both population’s, because the Government has become the father!
The Welfare office is not meant to feed and clothe mens children, but all too often men abandon their children because they know that Daddy Welfare is waiting to take his kids on!
Good night Doc!
did you see pedroza would not let anyone post any feedback on his mansoor rant . horray for mansoor , horray for costa mesa , he does not like it unlike la, sf, and santa ana they follow the law and he goes into his broken record racist rant , the more you boycott the better it gets it up to 80 percent now that the people want this law . keep on crying . just like that stupid boycott the other day on the freeway for the dream act . one of their leaders was a illegal ice was called i hope they caught her .
great one,
I just saw that the post you referenced was closed to comments. That was an error. It is now open to comments. Thanks for catching that!