Immigration Law Case Study

The demographics in the post 1965 era was not limited on the number of immigrants that could admitted in the United States from any country in the Western Hemisphere. The Hart-Cellar Act established a ceiling of 120,000 immigrant visas for the Western Hemisphere. The amount of 20,000 immigrants from Mexico was unrealistic in the 1960s. The number of immigrants was dramatic because there was not that many strict laws as now. During the 1960s it was a lot easier to receive a visa, so the amount of undocumented immigrants were lower and the amount of documented immigrants was higher. Many of laws that are created now were non-existed back then. A refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, …show more content…
56. The Provisions of the law include a wide variety of laws. Some the laws include: Prohibiting state and local law enforcement from restricting enforcement of federal immigration laws. Requires state and local law enforcement to reasonably attempt to determine the immigration status of a person involved in a lawful stop, detention or arrest in the enforcement of any other local or state law or ordinance where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien and is unlawfully present, except if it may hinder or obstruct an investigation. Requires the immigration status to be verified with the federal government for anyone who is arrested. Stipulates that law enforcement cannot consider race, color or national origin when implementing these provisions, except as permitted by the U.S. or Arizona Constitution. Specifies a presumption of lawful presence with these IDs: Arizona driver license or ID; tribal enrollment card or ID; valid federal, state or local government issued identification, if the issuing entity requires proof of legal presence before issuance (SB 1070). The SB 1070 is known as the support the law enforcement and safe neighborhoods but in essence is created to be the simplest anti-immigration law …show more content…
The United States is supposed to be the land of the free, but instead people are frowned upon for wanting a better life for their family. Two generations after the end of legal discrimination, race still ignites political debates over Civil War flags, for example, or police profiling. But the wider public discussion of race relations seems muted by a full-employment economy and by a sense, particularly among many whites, that the time of large social remedies is past. Race relations are being defined less by political action than by daily experience, in schools, in sports arenas, in pop culture and at worship, and especially in the workplace (Leduff). My generation can make a difference, if want change and that’s what we