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What is racial profiling? The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defines racial profiling as “the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion or national origin” (2005). Do not confuse racial profiling with criminal profiling; criminal profiling is usually practiced by police in which they use a group of characteristics that are associated with crime to target individuals (ACLU, 2005). Examples of racial profiling include using ones race to target specific drivers for traffic violations and pedestrians for illegal contraband; another prime example is the targeting of Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians since 9/11 in regards to minor immigrant violations without any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon (ACLU, 2005). Without a doubt, racial profiling occurs on a daily basis all over the world; however let’s focus on racial profiling in the United States and specifically right here in our homeland, Michigan. Background & History

Racial Profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspect someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics, when I mean Hispanics are people from North American, South American and Central Americans. An example of racial profiling against Hispanics is by; the color of our skin, which the majority skin toned (Color) is brown but not all of them, some may be different color and are Hispanics. Sadly, our identity is defined by the color of our skin and are targeted and threatened with deportation and thinking that we are all illegal immigrants and discriminating with hurtful words that express that we do not belong here in the United States, even though some were born in the United States and supposedly that we are taking everyone’s job, but it is usually people who think that and that say that, are the people who can get a job but do not want to or cannot get a job, so they just blame the Hispanics. We are the easy targeted race and stereotype about us, by only referring Hispanics as illegal immigrant which is not because there are other migrant who crossed the United States and are here illegally and Society does not refer them as illegal immigrants. Also it leads to being arrested unfairly for no reason, just because he or she was Hispanic. In Arizona which already have accepted racial profiling against Hispanics that has made the law passed which is called “SB1070”. Then there are people who racial

The next question is why is racial profiling is used in identifying illegal immigrants. As a matter fact, it is the most effective way to identify illegal immigrants. In 1954 US INS began “Operation Wetback, which was intended for to remove one million illegal immigrants from the southwestern U.S. through use of racial profiling, ending up removing near the one million illegal immigrants targeted.” (The Police Should...) With that said , “giving this criteria of power to the cops would definitely raise the percentage of illegal immigrants caught in the country, just for giving them the right to act when they feel they need to.” (The Police Should...) by the way the fact of a bill like that passing will deter them enough to send them back to their home country. By the way U.S. tax dollars are used to pay for public servants like police officers and border patrol.

Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics includes people from North American, South American and Central Americans. Examples of racial profiling against Hispanics are being identified by the color of their skin, which the majority of skin tone is brown but not all some may be a different color and are Hispanics. Sadly, Hispanic identity is only defined by the color of skin and are targeted and threatened with deportation and thinking that everyone are all illegal immigrants and discriminating with hurtful words that express that they do not belong here in the United States, even though some were born in the United States. Also supposedly that Hispanics are taking everyone’s job, but it is usually people who think that and that say that, are the people who can get a job but do not want to or cannot get a job, so they just blame the Hispanics. Hispanic are the easy targeted race and stereotype are made about them, by only referring Hispanics as illegal immigrant which is not because there is other immigrants who migrated to the United States and are here illegally and society does not refer them as illegal immigrants. Also it leads to being arrested unfairly for no reason, just because he or she was Hispanic. In Arizona which already has accepted racial profiling against Hispanics that has made the law passed which is called “SB1070.”

The summer of 2010 was proven to be an especially historic one for immigration policy in the United States. In late spring 2010, Arizona passed Senate Bill 10701 —an extraordinary law that reflects and has provoked intense reactions by political leaders, commentators, and the public. The bill raises critical issues of race, security, sovereignty, civil rights, state power, and foreign relations. Such issues encompass larger debates about modern immigration law and policy, and are worthy of sustained public commentary and scholarly discourse. The impact of S.B. 1070 on the criminal justice system of Arizona—the duties and powers of Arizona law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities, and the relationship of the state legislation to federal

However, I did found some parts of the given information of SB1070 that fell flat in my opinion which it is the reason why the law was criticized for its components. For example, one of the common criticism of SB1070 is that could damage state economics. In the first year after SB1070 was passed, Arizona saw an estimated one hundred and forty-one million dollars in losses from conference cancellations includes three thousand jobs lost due to SB1070.

This is a violation of The Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures. Statistics suggest that implicit bias within the policy is also a violation of The Fourteenth Amendment. Thus, the policy is not applied in a race-neutral manner when the majority of the victims under the policy 's enforcement are non-Hispanic black or Hispanic.

The Arizona SB 1070 is a state immigration law that has raised racial and political controversy. The law has had a negative effect on the majority of the hispanic community in the state of Arizona. The law was put in place to eliminate the amount of illegal immigrants that cause crime yet has targeted those who are neither criminals nor illegal. The SB 1070 law is the perfect example of racial profiling, is unconstitutional, and does not actually solve illegal immigration, the law has more negative effects than positive and should be repealed.

Have you ever been mistaken for a criminal, being an illegal resident, just because you “fit the profile”? Racial profiling has become such a norm that law enforcement officials are fully taking advantage of the fact that a certain individual “fits the profile”. Racial profiling forces individuals who have engaged in no wrongdoing to endure the burdens of law enforcement in order to prove their innocence. For each criminal, terrorist, or undocumented immigrant apprehended through racial profiling, many more law abiding

This writer believes that introduction of the controversial S.B. 1070 was formulated over generations of hate that has been building up from the lack of the federal government to adequately regulate immigration on the southern border of the United States. When Arizona presented the controversial S.B. 1070, this caused many Hispanics across the state to feel “elements of racial profiling, causing fear, confusion, and race-based hostility toward them and their communities” (Campbell, 2011, p 19). However, what many Hispanics do not understand is that the Arizona has been, over time, attempting to pass and also implement other variations of anti-immigration laws, which many have begun to call “e state-sanctioned ethnic-cleansing

Despite the name, The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act ironically increases minorities’ fear of discrimination. As a result, many people question the constitutionality of the law. States laws like SB 1070 infringe on basic constitutional rights such as potential violation of the fourteenth amendment. In fact, these laws violate the Supremacy Clause, which states that federal law, treaties, and the Constitution are supreme law of the land, thus “allow[ing] discrimination against a discrete and insular minority or infringe on a fundamental right in violation of the Constitution” (Gilbert 201). Therefore, this law violates the fourteenth amendment because it deprives citizens of equal protection under the law. Additionally,

Though the intent is to protect United States’ citizens, the result usually strips certain groups of their civil rights. Racial profiling is unconstitutional because it is in violation of the 14th Amendment that guarantees, “no state may deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (Head, 2014). This is not just an inconvenience, racial profiling has a negative impact on those it affects. Those who experience profiling pay the price emotionally, psychologically, mentally, and in some cases, finically or physically (“The Effects of Racial Profiling”, n.d.). Racial profiling compromises the future of individuals and the country because it creates mistrust between the entities (“The Effects of Racial Profiling”,

“Profiling was originally intended to help catch drug couriers attempting to enter the country” (Schmalleger, 264). The U.S. Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration created indicators that described individuals that were at high risk of law violation. These indicators were a description of a South American male between the age of eighteen and thirty-two, that had planned to stay in the United Sates for a short period of time. This is how agents at airports figured out who they should search twice and keep a close eye on. Federal agents started the subliminal idea of racial profiling. Racial profiling has been a common problem all over the world with the murders of many innocent and unarmed black people. The most recent event being in Salt Lake City, Utah. “An officer shot and killed Patrick Harmon, a 50-year-old black man, as he was being arrested on the evening of August 13” (Andone, 2017). This is one of many incidents that has caused controversy. The idea of racial and gender profiling is any police initiated action that relies on race, ethnicity, or gender rather than the behavior of the individual. It can also be called biased profiling, which can have anything to do with the sexual orientation, national origin, or religion. It uses a person’s race as the main reason for the arrest. “The probability of being black, unarmed, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police on average” (Vanity Fair). Hearing about the murders of unarmed men over the nation has changed the publics opinion on police. They begin to distrust authority and show them less respect. Many people saw them as individuals who are supposed to protect and serve the country instead now they fear them. Although, it may be illegal and unconstitutional it is still being down. Another type of profiling is psychological profiling. It began during World War II by William Langer. He was asked by government officials to attempt to anticipate what Adolf Hitler would do next. This type of profiling is when law enforcements use mental illnesses and health past to justify the crime committed. Schmalleger says that psychological profiling is, “the attempt to categorize, understand, and

The law requires law enforcement officials to detain anyone whom they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Glenn Greenwald was a columnist for Salon. He worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. Greenwald writes, “If a foreign national is arrested and accused by the U.S. Gov't of committing a crime, does anyone believe they can be sentenced to prison without a jury trial, denied the right...would necessarily have to claim that the U.S. Government could do all of that to foreign nationals." The U.S. should give equal rights to everyone. Since the Constitution specifically uses the word "person" instead of citizens, then non-citizens should also enjoy the equal rights. If they do then the Arizona Immigration Law was unconstitutional. The law violated the Fourth amendment, protection against 'unreasonable search and seizure'. The police stopped and questioned people only because they look like Mexicans. They did not have a 'probable cause' and that was clearly a violation of the Constitution. The law also violates the Fourteenth amendment, which says that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." Under the new State law, Arizona is not giving immigrants or Mexicans equal rights or protection, when the law enforcement officials can question and detain any suspects without

The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, most commonly known as Senate Bill, was a law passed in 2010 in the State of Arizona in the middle of a national debate surrounding immigration. This law made it a state misdemeanor for a person residing illegally in the state of Arizona to be in public without carrying documents showing that they were legal residents or citizens of the United States. This discriminatory measure allowed and encouraged police officers to inquire about a person's immigration status during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest" among other equally damaging provisions. Although the proponents of the bill claimed that outward appearance was not used to determine who they stopped, it was clear that this