Release: Washington, D.C.
The NCLR made a plea to the Arizona Governor to veto a law passed by the state legislature that allowed its police force to unjustly search Latinos in order to prove their citizenship.
The law in question makes it a misdemeanor to not have proper immigration/citizenship documentation; the police would only require "reasonable doubt" of someone's status. The NCLR president Janet Murguia stresses that this bill, when signed into law, will allow an unconstitutionally easy standard of motivation for police to target the Latino community. This, on top of Latino immigration program 287(g), deals a major blow to Latino legal rights.
“The urgency of fixing this broken system cannot be overstated. The more that time passes, the more families are broken apart, opportunities for education are denied, and our values as Americans are eroded,” Murguía concluded.
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