Condemnation of the anti-immigrant bill signed today by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is coming in from home and abroad, including human rights organizations who see this as an irrational and inhumane attempt to deal with an issue that the US authorities have neglected for a long time.
Arizona has now become the poster boy of modern day racial profiling and discrimination with a law that will impact not only undocumented immigrants but potentially anyone who looks like one - a modern day euphemism for Mexican.
No doubt the law has added fuel to the racial tensions already present in the nation and will increase polarization in Arizona and elsewhere. We already saw that taking place with past experiences, such as California's proposition 187.
Among those writing on the issue today is Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne. The link to his article is below.
PostPartisan - Arizona's shameful 'immigration' bill
Friday, April 23, 2010
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