The Pros And Cons Of Latino Deportations

Latino Deportations
For many undeveloped countries around the world, the United States is seen as the land of the opportunity. The land where hard work will be rewarded and all goals can be achieved. However the real United States is not as wonderful as it seems for an immigrant, specially an illegal immigrant. It is no doubt minorities on the United States are discriminated and somehow targeted. Every day our jail population is growing and prisons are becoming more and more overcrowded. The “unworthy poor” are by far the most tormented from all of the legal issues arising on their lives (Rhodes). While minorities are usually not given proper legal advice on their criminal cases, a greater injustice is promoted against illegal immigrants
It varies from the Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio getting sued for racial profiling and facing civil-contempt, to Arizona laws against the Latino. Sheriff Apraio has been facing the lawsuit since 2007 and the federal judge Snow has found the sheriff agency to have racially profiled Latinos during patrol operations (Holstege). This creates a hostile environment towards law enforcement in general among the Latino community, not only the Sheriff Office. On April 10, 2010 the Arizona Senate Bill 1070, better known as SB 1070, was signed into law in Arizona. This law had many provisions that were later found to be unconstitutional (Lavender). Under Federal law U.S.C. § 1304(e) it requires every alien, eighteen years of age and over, to carry with him at all times and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him…Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions … shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. One of the most controversial provisions of SB 1070 at its original form made it a state misdemeanor crime for an alien to be in Arizona without the proper documentation to certify they are legally in this country. Police, at a lawful stop, detention or arrest, were able to determine a person’s immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is an illegal alien. Any person arrested cannot be released without confirmation of the person’s legal immigration status by the federal government (SB 1070). While almost everyone at one point in time gets pulled over by a police officer on a routine traffic stop, minorities are most likely to get pulled over regardless of their education or wealth as we “drive while brown”(Zatz & Mann, 2011). People feared the color of their