Arizona just passed a bill allowing police officers to question and detain suspected illegal immigrants even if they are not believed to have committed a crime. Patricia Espinoza, Mexico's foreign minister, did not have a very high opinion of the new policy. She said that "criminalization is not the path to solving the phenomenon of illegal immigration." Arizona's governor, Jan Brewer on the other hand said that "It protects all of us, every Arizona citizen and everyone in our state lawfully and it does so while ensuring that the constitutional rights of all in Arizona remain solid." President Obama would beg to differ and said the law was "misguided" undermining American values. Obama believes that immigration policies need to be reformed at the national level. There is concern about what this new law could do to the relationships between police officers and their communities. Could this lead to racial profiling?
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Submitted By: Erin Burneson
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