Essay On Mexican Appearance

As for Latinos, they “face the suspicion that they may be illegal immigrants, subject to arrest, detention, and even deportation.” (Harris, 130) The Supreme Court even allowed border patrols to considered Mexican appearances as suspicions to pull them over, to question them, or detain them about their immigration status. The court even claims that a Mexican appearance is relevant to catching illegal immigrants. (Harris, 131) This has profiling written all over it and what makes it surprising is that it is from the Supreme Court. These people are supposed to make America better, but instead they are discriminating a certain race. One example of this method being used is with a Mexican judge, whose name is Filemon Vela, who was on his way to …show more content…
(Harris, 3-5) Another encounter was with a group of Hispanics in 1995. They were stopped on the Ohio Turnpike and the police officers took away their green cards. After having lawyers investigate the incident, they were surprised because it was illegal for an alien to not have his card at any given moment. (Harris, 132-134) During that incident, the Mexicans didn’t know how to speak English and the cops didn’t know Spanish so this can be argued that the cops took advantage of this flaw. Another ethnic group is Muslim and Arabian people who experience the same treatment because the majority of terrorist attacks have involved their people. Every time they are seen in an airport, they are the first suspects and so the government and the airlines take precautions. (Harris, 140) Especially after September 11th, Americans all over, even the minorities, agreed that racial profiling should be used to prevent terrorism, but now it is a widely used police tactic that took a turn for the worse. (Harris, 223-224) People of minority groups are targeted every day because of it and now it is slowly building its way back into a huge controversial