ACLU Arizona Travel Warning: Civil Liberties Group Urges Visitors To Avoid State

(AP) - The nation's top civil liberties group has issued travel warnings for Arizona, saying the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants could lead to racial profiling and warrantless arrests.

American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Arizona, New Mexico and 26 other states put out the alerts on Wednesday. The Arizona chapter says they've received reports that law enforcement officers are already targeting some people even though the law doesn't go into effect until July 29.

The alerts are designed to teach people about their rights if they are stopped and questioned by police.

The law requires police to question a person's immigration status during legal encounters if they suspect they are an illegal immigrant.

Its backers say it prohibits racial profiling, something Governor Jan Brewer says she will not tolerate.

Comments

[Eagleman]

11:53 PM on 07/14/2010

What is smoked in California inhaled in California

[ksjunebug]

04:29 PM on 07/11/2010

I would go to AZ. just to support THEM. Why dont you people that want them so bad,make your city a sancuary? That would be great and would take the pressure off of AZ.

[johndomane]

11:49 AM on 07/24/2010

soooo you support racial profiling and bigotry? If you were hispanic or this law was designed toward caucasian or black people I would bet dollars to donuts you'd be screamin like a stuck pig.

[dshare]

01:04 PM on 07/02/2010

After this law goes into effect, it would be quite interesting to see if they keep a statistical breakdown of how many minorities vs caucasians are pulled over and asked if they're legal or not. I wonder what the percentile is?...what are the chances that it could be 100% minorities pulled over and 0% caucasian?

[spytheweb]

03:36 PM on 07/02/2010

What's the statistical breakdown of blacks being pulled over for driving a nice car in America?

When people enter the US illegally they roll the dice. Stop trying to make excuses for them not to be questioned about it.

[dshare]

05:22 PM on 07/02/2010

so tell me what about the rights of citizens who are of minority decent living in AZ? Why should this law impact them more than their illegal/legal caucasian counterparts? Try to put yourself in the shoes of the minority who's a citizen. Imagine being subjected to being pulled over on a daily basis (which is very possible since the public can report the officers if they don't enforce this law now) and this happens you're late for work or late picking up your kids from school or worse, you're late in driving to the polling station to vote. No citizen should have to endure this daily harassment. It violates the basic rights as a citizen. This also makes you feel like a second-class citizen not equal to your caucasian counterpart. Is this right?

[electra10]

05:33 PM on 07/02/2010

valid objections to unconstitutional racist laws /= 'excuses'

try again wingnut.

[spytheweb]

06:54 AM on 07/04/2010

well i would ask 100% of the people who i pulled over who broke the law, are they in the country legally? Minorities vs. caucasians it's pretty stupid not to ask 59% of the people that are known to be in the country illegally, Mexicans. Again ask everyone who breaks the law, are you here illegally?

If you have someone who kills someone ask, someone who sells drugs ask, someone who lives in a house with 40 other persons ask, persons in a group of 5 who no one has ID ask, someone who is stopped while driving drunk with no license ask, someone who beats up his girlfriend on the weekends ask.

Oh yeah, caucasians in the country are 7% vs. 59% of illegal Mexicans in the country. But you people are racists for going after the most illegal in the country. If Mexicans were 7% of illegals you would not have a problem.

[RustyGranite]

05:01 AM on 07/02/2010

So let me see if I have the talking points straight here -- Conservatives want us to be more like North Korea, Afghanistan and China when it comes to our borders and the Constitution is a useless piece of paper unless it has to do with the right to say hateful sh*t and carry guns.

Does that about cover it?

[electra10]

08:48 AM on 07/02/2010

basically. :)

talk about hypocrisy, huh? the republican party is the closest thing i've EVER seen to fascism!

[Zonie]

12:01 PM on 07/02/2010

You assume way too much.

I tend to vote Democratic.
I have voted for a Democrat in every presidential and Congressional/Senate election I have been eligible to vote since I became so in 1981. I have worked with candidates opposing McCain.....one very closely in the 1990s. Her name was Claire Sargent. My former spouse and I were very active in Pinal county at that time.

You assume way too much....approx one third of Democrats in Arizona and across the country support reform, sb 1070 and no amnesty. It's time you understood you do not own the entire Democratic party.

[Zonie]

12:07 PM on 07/02/2010

the republican party is the closest thing i've EVER seen to fascism!

Likely true. You're not old enough and learned enough to remember/know anything else.

It is also a rather myopic view that lends you very susceptible to not seeing the tendencies you obviously loathe in your own circle of heros.......

[Zonie]

12:03 PM on 07/02/2010

Surely you understand that the demographic supporting sb 1070 isn't all conservative.

Maybe your wee narrow-minded world view needs some experience and cracking open.

[electra10]

05:39 PM on 07/02/2010

hypocritical racists who call other people 'narrow-minded' are hilarious!

[Zonie]

02:26 AM on 07/02/2010

Maywood California....

Le traemos el Tercer mundo….hahaha
Model sanctuary city.

lmao.

Same city that boasted a 97 percent Hispanic and half foreign born illegal population and of driving out all the "racist" whites....same city that began conducting town meetings in Spanish.....same city that allowed illegals to drive drunk and without licenses.....same city with the corrupt and racist police force that stood by and did nothing as illegals and reconquistas raised the mexican flag above the US Post office and spit and stomped on the US flag they ripped down. http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/20060828/sos_rally_maywood_mexflag.jpg

New City motto?
¡lCorrupción es nosotros!

Hahaha....or maybe....¡Orgulloso traerle México norte!

Hahaha lmao....

Hey....you're not the same ACLU I knew.....up yours ACLU.....change your name to the IACLU.

[JJJandW]

11:32 AM on 07/02/2010

ha ha haahahahahahhah ha ha hee haw, what an idiot your are.

[Zonie]

12:26 PM on 07/02/2010

And this is because of what? Everything I posted is fact.

What's your argument?

Hmmmm? Is anything above a lie?

Not even. So tell me....what's your argument?

[electra10]

05:27 PM on 07/02/2010

i said the SAME THING! but the huff didn't let my post go thru :(

[MJHammonds]

03:26 PM on 07/02/2010

Was that link supposed to support any part of the BS in your post?

[majoman]

02:25 AM on 07/02/2010

It's clear to anyone with a brain the real objection to the Arizona law is that it is an extremely effective way of keeping illegals out of Arizona. Already they're leaving.

It works and if it keeps working there may not be one incident of one cop stopping one illegal because they' will all be gone by July 29.

The pro-Amnesty crowed is terrified that other states might pass similar laws.

Obama is terrified because the law undercuts his efforts to gather support for his amnesty bill.

So Obama and the pro-amnesty crowd resort to rank demagoguery to achieve their agenda.

Their high-sounding words and and supposed righteous indication are cons. Their histrionics shameless demagoguery.

Do not be fooled.

These people have no integrity.

[Zonie]

02:34 AM on 07/02/2010

Obama threw the House Democrats under the bus today. HaHAHA....he knows that 2010 is looking REAL BAD.

He is thinking of 2012.....clearly. The fringe pro amnesty/open borders crowd and pro business corporate slavers have the citizens of this country to deal with....and we will not fade away.

Obama better be careful on this issue....and I think he is likely NOT to back amnesty....he can't afford to. He will lose on that issue alone in 2012....if he backs and supports amnesty he is history.

[electra10]

09:11 AM on 07/02/2010

psst! wingnut ~

try educating yourself instead of spouting nonsense:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h4321/text

that's been in the senate since 2009 - not something 'new' developed yesterday.

try for once, actually knowing about the things you ramble on incoherently about.

[electra10]

08:55 AM on 07/02/2010

your nonsensical inflammatory rants are very funny!

do you always state your warped POV as 'fact'?

HYPE, HYPERBOLE, HYSTERIA, HYPOCRISY & HATE /= FACTS

nope. you have no 'facts'... just a whole lot of mental rightardation!

[Zonie]

11:52 AM on 07/02/2010

And where are your facts? Namecalling and reciting the usual bs just makes you sound extremely unoriginal and just blindly toeing to the party line.

[Zonie]

12:39 AM on 07/02/2010

Yeah....as if travel to a place like Juarez was safe....

Especially if you are a woman....

Remember these killings?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/09/juarez/

They are still going on.

The culture does not value women. Nice culture to import.

In Oaxaca kidnapping and rape is essentially legal....
A few years back he one-year-old, government-funded Oaxacan Women’s Institute persuaded the legislature to pass heavy criminal penalties like a ten year prison sentence against the practice called “rapto.” Laws in most Mexican states define rapto as a case where a man kidnaps a woman not for ransom, but for forcing her to marry him or to satisfy a sexual desire.
However..... Oaxacan state legislature reversed itself and again made the practice a minor infraction. A key legislator — a man — argued for the reduction, calling the practice "harmless and romantic.”

The culture isn't being left behind.

Remember....Vincente Fox referred to women as "washing machines with legs"

And a Mexican political leader calls kidnapping and rape “romantic.”
The culture is rife with misogyny.
Don't expect all of us to be welcoming folks who do not leave their misogyny behind.

[electra10]

12:58 AM on 07/02/2010

juarez isn't a part of the US.

your attempt at *SPIN* doesn't work.

janice kkk brewer has enacted racist legislation & arizona will be boycotted as a result.

deal with it wingnut.

[Zonie]

01:07 AM on 07/02/2010

Oh no....you will be dealing with it....because they are coming your way.

It isn't spin. It is absolute fact.

Better buy some pepper spray.

I live with it every day....now it's your turn.

I guarantee your sentiments will change when it's your backyard.

[Zonie]

01:10 AM on 07/02/2010

Oh....and....HAHA...Juarez isn't part of the US....
Duh. Glad you took geography.
So did I.

[JavaManiac]

11:57 PM on 07/01/2010

“What is a 'TEABAGGER'?:

Totally
Enraged
About
Blacks
And
Gays
Getting
Equal
Rights”

(you could probably include all minorities)

[electra10]

12:00 AM on 07/02/2010

love it! :D

[JavaManiac]

11:56 PM on 07/01/2010

Boycott Arizona in every way!

[Cat9]

11:31 PM on 07/01/2010

Ewwwww....ACLU, scared of that....NOT!

[majoman]

09:32 PM on 07/01/2010

The ACLU is making a pro-amnesty political statement that raises questions about their supposed impartiality.

The ACLU does this by reading things into the Arizona law that simply are not there.

First of all "racial profiling" is when cops stop people because of their race. The Arizona law does not permit this. Indeed, the new law clearly states this won't be tolerated. In other words, the ACLU engages in rank demagoguery when it says this is what the law does.

Another thing the ACLU does that calls into question their integrity is promoting the notion that illegals are only identifiable by their race -- brown. This certainly is not the case at all, but the ACLU would have us believe all brown people -- in fact ALL people! -- are at risk of being deported if stopped in Arizona.

Illegals look nothing like native born Hispanics no matter how the ACLU seeks to hide this fact. No Arizona officer will ever confuse George Lopez or Gloria Estevan for an illegal; the ACLU knows this, as does La Raza, Obama and all the other pro-amnesty groups.

Apparently the end justifies the means with these people, so they lie, lie, lie.

[electra10]

10:24 PM on 07/01/2010

your post was nothing but a lie, lie lie!

but here's the TRUTH...

BS 1070 infringes upon the civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of hispanic 'americans' - whom jan ' führer' doesn't give a flying fig newton about because she's always seen them as second class citizens (as does pop-tart pseudo politician palin)

1) jan's 'STATE' law trampled all over 'FEDERAL' jurisdiction. that's the 1st place she went wrong.

2) it build’s it precedent on the fact that people are presumed to be illegal until they show their ‘papers’ – i.e. guilty before proven innocent; that’s the opposite of how our justice system works.

3) the law gives the state a massive new responsibility, of which it doesn't have the personnel, man hours or budget to handle. it has the potential of jamming up AZ courts for months & months...

4) it also has a clause that allows private citizens to SUE law enforcement officials if they're not enforcing it to it's fullest extent. so if an officer is given a choice to investigate a possible illegal & lets say grand larceny, maybe said official would opt to put the robbery on the back burner because that at least won't result in a lawsuit.

5) jan has petitioned the 'FEDERAL' govn't for funds to cover her 'STATE' law that she knew she had NO WAY of enforcing in the first place. the audacity & disrespect she's shown is palpable!

[majoman]

02:31 AM on 07/02/2010

I think your core argument is if law officers see a brown man on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande jump in and swim to the U.S. side, these law officers are engaging in racial profiling if they arrest him when he comes out of the water.

Is that your point?

[electra10]

10:25 PM on 07/01/2010

imagine if ALL the states trampled all over federal jurisdiction & then had the audacity to petition the govn't for the funding to do it? that's a facist approach to strong-arming governmental funds & i for one don't like my tax dollars APPROPRIATED that way.

besides, i thought the 'conservatives' (tea-baggers/libertarians) were against big government & socialism? this party waffles more than ihop on the wknd.

i believe certain matters warrant a uniform federal approach as opposed to a mish-mosh response from different states - especially when that state is run by a thinly veiled "WHITE IS RIGHT" supremacist.

the implications of jan führer brewer's law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o-Bc-TFV4g&feature=PlayList&p=9A557901A3231500&playnext_from=PL&index=4

ARIZONA RACISM:
ties to neo-nazis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQ7JCgbYc4&feature=PlayList&p=F3C1DBD757FEF78C&playnext_from=PL&index=17

http://tiodt.blogspot.com/2010/05/sponsor-and-enforcer-of-az-sb-1070-both.html

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/06/jan_brewer_joe_arpaio_russell.php

everyone's favorite racist joins brewer & speaks hypocritically
http://www.politicususa.com/en/arizona-threat-los-angeles-power-off

even children aren't safe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/arizona-elementary-school-mural_n_601436.html?page=23&show_comment_id=49850370#comment_49850370

[majoman]

02:34 AM on 07/02/2010

I actually hope Obama's lawyers manage to get the law repealed because the backlash will kill his amnesty bill forever.

There are 30 million illegals in this country and they're wrecking it just like they've wrecked Mexico.

So go ahead and get the law repealed. Make my day.

[Zonie]

12:13 PM on 07/02/2010

Arresting you for that crack pipe you're smoking isn't trumping federal law. It mirrors federal law. And so does sb 1070. There is plenty of SCOTUS precedent to support the issue of federal violations can be state violations. The OKC bombing for one. Most drug prohibitions....

[MarkVA71]

09:24 PM on 07/01/2010

I have this bumper sticker!

[Duppy]

09:11 PM on 07/01/2010

Arizona and Texas...........seceed from the union !

[Zonie]

12:47 AM on 07/02/2010

seceed?

[RustyGranite]

04:55 AM on 07/02/2010

Hair bleach?

[Earfling]

09:04 PM on 07/01/2010

Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[electra10]

09:33 AM on 07/02/2010

that's what 'HE' said! ;)

[trucker guy]

07:53 PM on 07/01/2010

Can’t and won’t are the two words Obama uses more than any other. Let me be clear about this, the border can be sealed, it must be sealed. Other Nations don’t seem to have a problem sealing their borders. IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
Yes you can enforce the laws of our Nation if you at least TRY.
Obama can talk the talk but he can’t walk the walk.
NO AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.
COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM IS AMNESTY.

[sorrytobeakansan]

08:01 PM on 07/01/2010

So these are the countries we need to imitate? I agree we need to secure our border, but as with the AZ law, this arguement makes that less rather than more likely.

By the way, obama announced today his willingness to do so. Where the he// are the Republicans? Having a beer with Boener in a local bar...It is after 5 there you know.

[Duppy]

09:13 PM on 07/01/2010

And you know if Obama immitates them he will be called Socialist and Marxist ! Typical Republicans, totally illogical and always contradict their own positions.........everytime.........just give them a minute ! LOL

[gnomic]

08:47 PM on 07/01/2010

IF YOU CROSS THE USA BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU ARE GIVEN A LOW-PAYING JOB, CHEATED, ABUSED, AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF. ALSO, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE YOU ARE LESS THAN HUMAN BY BIGOTS AND USED FOR POLITICAL FODDER BY RIGHT WINGNUTS WHO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING AND AVOIDED DOING TO.

Also, learn how to use a caps lock key. Most illegal immigrants know how. Try hiring one.

[Zonie]

04:19 AM on 07/02/2010

Hiring one is illegal.

Understand?