Asian American Groups Join Lawsuit Against SB 1070

http://newamericamedia.org/2010/05/asian-american-groups-join-lawsuit-against-sb-1070.php
This week, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Asian American Justice Center, members of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, filed a lawsuit with other national civil rights organizations to challenge SB 1070, a sweeping anti-immigrant bill recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.
This unconstitutional and patently un-American law requires police officers to question anyone stopped by the police who they “reasonably suspect” is undocumented, and ask for their papers. It expands the authority of law enforcement to make warrantless arrests and gives officers carte blanche to engage in racial profiling, where characteristics like language fluency, accent, style of dress, and the company that someone keeps are major factors in how the police decide if a person is suspected of being undocumented. Arizona’s SB 1070 targets Latinos in particular for “attrition through enforcement” by establishing a comprehensive state immigration scheme that is unconstitutional and divisive.