On one side of the argument we have Latinos. With ethnic and racial profiling already playing a role in many interactions between Latinos and Law Enforcement.
Then on the other side we have opinions of anger based on the death of an Arizona rancher and the rampart criminalities of “illegals” mostly gathered from local white citizens. When reading the passages of who gets to stay or go, little voice is given in the big English media names to Latinos. Proponents of SB1070 make a blurry topic between the death of the Arizona rancher Rob Krentz and immigrants. Detailing a death that was linked to a Mexican drug cartel.
But not enough is being said about targetting the drug problems around the borders with the federal agency whose jurisdiction this would fall more under: the Drug Enforcement Administration. However, much was done to ask for the National Guard, Homeland Security and to make sure that everyone in the public became aware that this was an “immigration problem”.
Would ensuring that the drug cartels are targetted by drug enforcement agents relief the ethnic profiling in Arizona? Hardly. However, it would at least have provided a more solid efforts to analyze concerns about “drug criminality” in the border. As opposed to making it another chance to focus on the need to oust Latinos from Arizona in general, as will happen, once police ethics begin to corrode from this new call to duty.
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