Joselyn Garcia
9196-8101
July 7, 2010
In the Article “Arizona’s Immigration Law — a good thing?” the author JT Coyote is writing to persuade readers about the positive aspects of SB 1070. However on the other hand, in the article “The Trouble with Racial Profiling”, the author Raina Kelley examines the negative impact the Arizona State Law will have in Arizona. Both of these articles provide two opposing perspectives. The first article presents a graph that indicates that more than half of the population in Arizona is content with the new law that will take effect on July 29, 2010. Coyote argues that legal immigrants entering the United States should come with a mind set to Assimilate into “Americans.” I will refute that argument because people coming in should be given the opportunity to be different and bring about change. Even though Coyote claims that the Federal Government has done nothing to protect Arizona and that is why they are acting so radically I will use the second article to disprove that the law is an excuse for harassment and cause racial profiling. The police enforcement has the right to question the legal status of an alien under reasonable suspicion. Kelley believes that because the officers will be too busy worrying about how someone looks a certain way then the “bad people” will start breaking the law with a whole new group of people, not just those who look foreign.
