The Immigration Law Enforcement And Safe Neighborhoods Act ( Arizona Senate Bill 1070 )

For my research topic, I will be exploring the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and post-9/11 border militarization on the issues of criminalization of immigration and the inequality and structural violence immigrants face in detention centers specifically at the U.S.-Mexico Border. National awareness on issues such as oversight of detention centers, conditions within detention centers, as well as the inhumane practices detained immigrants are subjected to have risen within the last decade. Immigration detention has become the fastest growing form of incarceration in the United States, and immigrants are the fastest growing population in federal prisons (Lopez & Light, 2009). Nearly 30,000 immigrants are detained

Back in 2007 there were several concerns over immigration as a whole and exploding proportions of illegal immigrants crossing the border in the Arizona area. Arizona attempted to resolve the influx of people across the border by imposing heavy fines on employers hiring illegal immigrants. At that time in Arizona there was a democratic governor Janet Napolitano that continually vetoed the Arizona’s legislature attempt to reduce illegal immigration. In 2009 the state replaced the Democratic governor with a Republican governor Jan Brewer who was supportive of reforms for immigration in Arizona. In 2010 the immigration problem was so sever that Arizona passed legislation allowing the state to enforce federal law for identification of legal immigration into the United States. This sparked a nation wide discussion on illegal immigration and immigration reform.

Illegal immigration is an unintend¬ed result of federal immigration restric¬tions from the shortage of green cards (permanent residence) and temporary work visas available for migrants (Nowrasteh 2). Currently, 73% of the 11.5 million illegal immigrants nationally are located in ten states, including Arizona (Nowrasteh 2). Between 2000 and 2008, Arizona experienced a large increase of illegal immigrants from 330,000 to 560,000 (Nowrasteh 2). The costs of the housing bust and the Great Recession

It is clear that illegal immigration has gotten out of control and constringent measures need to be taken to protect the United States borders. The local Government of Arizona recently decided to take control of the situation, by passing the “Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” {House Bill 2162}. This bill gives law enforcement officers and agencies the authority, to lawfully stop, detain and arrest anyone who appears to look like an illegal alien. The bill out-right condones racial profiling and it violates civil rights, as well!

Bill Clinton passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996 in America. The original purpose behind this act was an effort by Congress to improve and strengthen U.S. immigration laws through improving border control (LII, 2010). This act gives the government the ability to deport any immigrants who have resided in the United States unlawfully for less than 365 days or who have committed a crime. According to LII, this act also established regulations for employment eligibility with sanctions on both the employee and employer. If a business was caught employing without eligibility verification in agreement to these guidelines they received a high pension and immigrants were detained for deportation.

Arizona has enforced the new senate bill 1070 which gives the police authority to check immigration status when enforcing other laws. SB1070 is supposed to cut the down on the illegal immigrants in Arizona by having immigrants carry immigration papers, or will be held until proven their status in the USA. The more they try to secure the border with bill 1070 the more they end up taking away simple constitutional rights of the citizens. The senate bill 1070 that has been passed is causing racial profiling, unconstitutional acts, and has put federal law into question.

Senate Bill 1070, also known as the “Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act”, is a piece of legislation that originated in early 2010 which gives the police the permission to check immigration status when enforcing other laws. The intentions of SB1070 is to cut down on the illegal immigrants in Arizona by having immigrants carry immigration papers, or will be held until proven their status in the USA. However, this senate bill has caused a lot of controversies on the issues on racial profiling and unconstitutional acts have put the federal law into question of their actions. The issues of SB1070 have also gained my interest into learning about the both sides of SB1070 and does it affect our views of the American government

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.

On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Janice K. Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SOLESNA), or Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070, as it is popularly known). The purpose of the act is “... to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States” (Senate Bill 1070, 2010). Arizona Senate Bill 1070 is considered one of the harshest anti-immigration law due to it’s enforcements. Nevertheless, it is not the first law of it’s kind. Geographically, Arizona is prime for an anti-immigration bill such as S.B. 1070, as it is one of four states (including California, Texas, and New Mexico) that borders Mexico. Previously, Arizona

The amount of illegal immigration has increased drastically over the past two decades. This is a very controversial topic for the citizens and government. The amount of illegal immigration is much more apparent in the states along the borders of the United States. States like Texas, Arizona and New Mexico have an influx of immigrants because its nation sits adjacent to the Mexican border. The state of Arizona in particular wanted to regulate, diminish, and enforce the amount of undocumented people entering their state from Latin America. So they decided to pass a bill, that bill is known as S.B 1070. With this new bill law enforcement officers have the authority to request for legal documentation at their leisure. Not only can officers request

These policies have changed the way people travel to and from Mexico and the United States. By strengthening the enforcement efforts along the border, law enforcement has made it safer for all migrants who are looking to enter the U.S. legally. “The effect of U.S. immigration enforcement is not so much to stop migration, but to define the status of people- as subordinate- once they have arrived” (111). Many people were blocked from entering the country, such as imbeciles, homosexuals, and contract laborers. Although, it has been the nonwhite, poor, minorities that have been, and still are, the targets for deportation, detention, and

Heidy Sarabia, in her paper titled Perpetual Illegality: Results of Border Enforcement and Policies for Mexican Undocumented Migrants in the United States, argues that heightened border security and legalization restrictions created America’s illegal immigration problem in the first place. For example, she states that The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) created “mixed-status families” by only allowing illegal immigrants who had lived in the United States throughout the entirety of 1982-1987 to alter their legal status (Sarabia). She goes on to explain that “These mixed-status families are one of the most important elements that pull migrants to return to the United States…”, and that any attempt to reform immigration that does not address this problem will only serve to create more “mixed-status families” (Sarabia). Additionally, Sarabia explains that illegal immigrants in the United States are settling for longer periods of time than they have in the past for two reasons: “First, leaving the United States decreases their opportunities for adjusting their legal status, and second, the intensification of border enforcement has made it more difficult and expensive to return to the United States”. So, in order to be with their families, Sarabia argues, and because of the dangers and expense now associated with illegally crossing the border, many undocumented immigrants choose to stay in America as long as they can since obtaining a visa and visiting legally is not an option for many. Sarabia offers an example in the form of Sandra, a Mexican citizen who at the time was trying to enter America to see her sick sister. She attempted to get a visa, but was turned down as many are (Sarabi). Presented with no other options she had little choice but to attempt to cross the border illegally (Sarabia). During the attempt her husband and

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These words are engraved on the Statue of Liberty that was assembled in 1886. The statue was meant to be a beacon of hope for all immigrants that enter the U.S. Do we still agree with what those words say?

The authorities of Arizona actualized stricter measures that would deflect illicit migration and drive unlawful migrants off from the state. With the assistance of the measures embraced by the state government, Arizona has received a questionable new law that renders unlawful remain in the USA a lawful offense, which implies that every illicit foreigner face the peril of getting detained. Since Arizona is the leakiest part of more than two-thousand-mile outskirt, the proceeded with attack of illicit settlers conveys tremendous mischief to the social and monetary status of the state. The rates of medication trafficking have risen and instability in the state has achieved disturbing extents, which is the reason there has been an immense open deliberation concerning the migration approach in the state. This examination paper will, hence, address the new migration law in Arizona. To start with, the current improvements spinning around this law must be considered before taking a gander at the future potential results of the law. The paper will then concentrate on the open deliberation between the defenders and those contradicting this

Arizona passed a bill called SB 1070, this bill was work on Anti-immigrant sentiment and the borders of belonging and not belonging. Lots of people from Mexico across the border come to Arizona illegally, and this situation cause lots of social phenomenon. For example, the crime on the board is very significant, and cartel