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Old 08-09-2010, 04:20 PM
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By Helen Kim Ho

The Asian American Legal Advocacy Center of Georgia wants an end to illegal immigration. AALAC believes the only effective way to solve the problem is through passage of comprehensive, federal immigration reform and not through piecemeal state legislation.

But as an organization that principally focuses on our local community, we’ve sought to understand this issue from the perspective of how it would impact regular, hard-working Asian-Americans and others.

State immigration laws like SB 1070 necessitate unconstitutional racial profiling, hurting legal as well as illegal immigrants.

And common sense tells us that when police are trying to develop a “reasonable suspicion” that someone they see walking down the street or driving down the road is illegal, the person’s skin color will be one of the first things they see. While the color of a person’s skin is evident, a person’s citizenship status is not. Imagine being arrested one day because you forgot to carry your naturalization papers proving your citizenship status, and the anger you would feel being treated as a second-class citizen.

My parents came to the United States because they believed America is a country of equal opportunity for those willing to work hard and play by the rules. That ideal is actually part of our Constitution: The 14th Amendment requires states to provide equal protection under the law for all people within its jurisdiction.

A law that authorizes detention of a certain group of people based on race or color goes against the language of our Constitution and the spirit of equal access that brought many of us here.

State immigration laws will create a confusing patchwork of enforcement policies, burdening and exposing local police officers to unfair lawsuits. AALAC believes that requiring our police to act as immigration officials — a responsibility that is and should be on the federal government — will create tremendous confusion and cost in implementation among different police agencies.

Already in Arizona, police are dealing with a mishmash of different training materials, policing guidelines and rules based on each agency’s interpretation of SB 1070.

In one county, a police officer is trained to let a driver go with a citation if the officer cannot confirm the driver’s legal status while a police officer in another county is trained to send that same driver to border patrol.

And while one officer may decide to detain an individual for speaking English poorly, another officer might decide limited English proficiency is not a reasonable factor in suspecting a person’s legal status.

And under SB 1070, the decisions of our police could later be the subject of a citizen’s lawsuit, challenging an individual officer for failing to follow procedure “to the fullest extent of the law.”

Patchwork enforcement policies will lead to unfair exposure for police, and could potentially jeopardize the trust and collaboration between the community and the police.

It’s not just a Latino issue. Before Asian-Americans or others feel this is just a Latino issue, let’s not forget that discriminatory immigration laws targeting Asians existed for more than 80 years in the United States, starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

And let’s also not forget that, in the current day and in our state, we hear of Asian-Americans being discriminated against and targeted based on their ethnicity or lack of English language proficiency.

We can’t afford to repeat history, and must come together to promote a reasoned, compassionate and comprehensive answer to our immigration crisis.

Helen Kim Ho is the executive director of the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center of Georgia.
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Old 08-09-2010, 06:11 PM
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Imigration Reform: Enforce existing laws on the books, 100%. This includes 100% of the time. Do this, and watch the immigration problem disappear with no more time and money spent on drafting new laws. Why would any thinking voter (oxymoron?) agree to going through all the hoops of drafting new legislation when government shows no backbone in enforcement the laws we already have? Amnesty, for the most part is already in effect. Ask the families of dead and injured people, made that way by illegals. Compassion? How about some compassion for legal citizens and immigrants who came in lawfully. Kind of a novel idea, yes?

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Old 08-09-2010, 08:27 PM
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Imigration Reform: Enforce existing laws on the books, 100%. This includes 100% of the time. Do this, and watch the immigration problem disappear with no more time and money spent on drafting new laws. Why would any thinking voter (oxymoron?) agree to going through all the hoops of drafting new legislation when government shows no backbone in enforcement the laws we already have? Amnesty, for the most part is already in effect. Ask the families of dead and injured people, made that way by illegals. Compassion? How about some compassion for legal citizens and immigrants who came in lawfully. Kind of a novel idea, yes?
I agree 100%.
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Old 08-14-2010, 12:08 PM
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"Compassion" has been overworked almost to the point that "RACIST!!!" has been.

And what the hell does "comprehensive" really mean, out side of being a softener word such as "undocumented"?

Merriam - Webster:

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comprehensive

1.

Main Entry: com·pre·hen·sive
Pronunciation: \-ˈhen(t)-siv\
Function: adjective
Date: 1614

1 : covering completely or broadly : inclusive <comprehensive examinations> <comprehensive insurance>

2 : having or exhibiting wide mental grasp <comprehensive knowledge>

— com·pre·hen·sive·ly adverb

— com·pre·hen·sive·ness noun
All that needs to be done is for the Feds to enforce federal immigration laws on the books. If the Federal government refuses to do so, then it falls on the states to do so.
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