Nine Latin American Countries Join Mexico in Opposing Arizona Law

Mexico is now being joined by nine other Latin countries in opposing the Arizona Immigration Law

. According to Businessweek, lawyers or abogados for Mexico told the US Court of Appeals that the Arizona Law may prevent a good relationship between their country and the US. The abogados also said the law may encourage "an imminent threat of state-sanctioned bias or discrimination."

Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Paraguay are blocking key provisions in the law which includes allowing policemen to stop and individual to ask what his immigration status is. Mexico's abogados have said that they will do their utmost to protect their almost 20 million citizens who are currently in the United States. They want to make sure that their citizens are granted human and civil rights while they are away from their home soil.

There are several key points which make this immigration law different from the one already in place. In this law, policemen will be required to check a non-US citizen's immigration status. In the past, this is a task which they did not have to do. Also, being or working in Arizona without legal documents, smuggling people into Arizona and harboring immigrants will be considered as crimes. Cases are pending in the US courts regarding Arizona Law's unconstitutionality. However, there are sections which still take effect today. Among these are human smuggling being a state crime, motor vehicles stopping to pick up day laborers also being considered a crime, requirement of state officials to work with federal officials when handling cases of immigrants and the inability of Arizona officials and other political factions to limit the imposition of federal immigration laws. There is, however, an injuction versus the most controversial sections of the law. This includes determining when foreigners can start applying for work and when their immigration status should and can be checked. Several Hispanic lawmakers in the US have also argued that passing the Arizona Immigration Law will have a tremendous impact on Hispanic communities in the US and may actually lead to their hesitance to trust in the police.

As it is a controversial law, public offices and government officials were flooded with complaints. The immigration law was seen as racial in nature particularly to the Latinos who are already residing in the United States. It was also deemed as a violation to a person's human and civil rights. In answer to these, US President Barack Obama has assured the Hispanic community that after the country's midterm election, a careful study and analysis of the said law will be made. He has also said that he will keep his word on reforming the law to appease the calls for its injunction made by a growing number of people. Many of Mexico and other Latin American countries' abodagos have vowed to continue fighting and opposing the immigration law. These nations have also reassured their citizens that they will do all they can in order to protect their human rights.

Nine Latin American Countries Join Mexico in Opposing Arizona Law

By: Jennifer Franco

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