Hola clase! So this is the end of my third week in class. And I am getting a little political, here we go...
"Mexicans are being hunted down and killed under Arizona's new immigration law, Mexican director Felipe Cazals said Friday as his latest work opened the San Sebastian film festival." - Full Story
Now, Mr. Cazals is a little wrong. Mexicans in Arizona are not being hunted down and killed per-say, but they are being hunted. Hunted by police and immigration officers. These Mexicans, whether they are citizens of the United States or in fact illegal immigrants are required to prove that they are citizens of the U.S. and can be pulled over by police at any time without probable cause. This, to me, seems like profiling. But after all this is not Political Science, it is just Spanish class. Until next time...
Hasta luego! Vivo en lunes.
Caleb, I agree with you about racial profiling. I was on a Greyhound bus this summer & at the border patrol stop, agents made everyone *except me* answer questions and show papers. I felt they should have either done a random pick of passengers to screen, or screen everyone. It was embarrassing for me to be singled out that way (there was another female on the bus, but I was the only blond haired blue eyed passenger), and I felt horrible for every other American citizen on that bus who had to "show papers" to prove they weren't criminals.
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