Boycotting Arizona’s Racism
Arizona was the only territory west of Texas to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the Civil War. A century later, it fought recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. This week, an anti-immigrant bill was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Senate Bill 1070 empowers state and local law enforcement to stop, question and arrest whoever they suspect may not be in the state legally. The law is an open invitation to sweeping racial profiling and arbitrary detention.
Apartheid
The whole world condemns the Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which criminalizes illegal immigration in that state of the American union, and that conviction avalanche grows as the connotation of racial discrimination inherent in the regimes of "apartheid."
The "apartheid" is basically racial segregation and is based on the theory of the superior race - applied in Nazi Germany and South Africa of "afrikanders" extreme right - which is one of the most shameful attacks againsthuman rights and social peace.
The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) denounced in this regard that SB 1070 of the Arizona State violates the principles of nondiscrimination and equal protection of the laws.
The U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, has said publicly that his government is reviewing the law in Arizona and would not rule out challenging it to justice.
This event could mean for President Obama, who has expressed opposition to this law, a blow to its immigration policy if such legislation comes into force eventually. There are already initiatives in the State of Texas for the imposition of a similar scheme there too.
So far, the immigration reform bill proposed by President Obama - which tends to make flexible and rationalize the immigration policy, paving the way for the normalization of the status of certain illegal immigrants, has been systematically boycotted by Republican congressmen.
The financial crisis has caused a severe blow to employment, and, of course, has been a factor adverse to immigration reform, since the sharp increase in unemployment tends to protect the U.S. labor force vis a vis the migrants, something easily usable for the anti-immigration slogan.
Moreover, the "international impact" that the Arizona law has caused is of great concern to the United States government and for most Americans.The State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, acknowledges: "Clearly it's having an impact, especially in Mexico, but everywhere ... There are also international implications of all this."
And with things heading this way, from Honduras reading these events is very difficult, given the complexity of the political and ideological interests at stake in the American scene. It seems clear, though, that the ultra-right Republican wing is going towards a deeper radicalization and more aggressive.
In our environment, whether related to the TPS - this phenomenon has serious implications and influence. This is why, in large part, there is persistence of certain authoritarian attitudes that intensify the human rights violations and undermine the already precarious social peace.
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