“There”s a lot, but have to happen properly. If this becomes something party, we will all lose out,” says Bob Sakaniwa, associate director of the Lawyers Association of migration issues.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed SB 1070, for the first time U.S. forces from state police to identify and detain illegal migrants.
some 460,000 undocumented immigrants live in Arizona, a state bordering Mexico.
Living and working in the United States without papers is already a crime, but federal level.
Dozens of police districts have signed agreements with the federal government to serve as immigration officers, but only from other crimes.
The new law Arizona requires the police to stop people from “reasonable doubt” that may be illegal.
If they do, they can be sued by citizens of the state.
The law is “irresponsible,” Barack Obama criticized the president, who announced he will ask the Justice Department to examine whether it violates civil rights.
“The American people deserve a comprehensive and judicious reform,” Obama said.
The tension surrounding t1000he events in Arizona has dangerous consequences, analysts and experts involved in the discussions being Washington.
Only one Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, is currently negotiating with another Democrat, Chuck Schumer, a possible text for reform, based on a program of temporary work permits, fines and obligation to learn English for those who seek legalization and identification cards.
For the Democrats, whose electoral prospects in November are announced tough, the temptation is to break the deck and present a text reform itself, as they did with the reform of health services or banking.
Senate leaders, Harry Reid, and House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, aimed at that direction this week.
Democrats can “push now and then to say during the election campaign that at least tried,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks, a coalition of business people who fight to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.
But that would leave the text with virtually no chance of being approved in Congress.
The Republicans are too complicated, since they are the minority party and are also hard pressed by the new conservative phenomenon, called the Tea Party.
Significantly, the Republican National Committee was silent on the historic step of Arizona.
One of the figures of the Party and former champion of immigration reform, John McCain, former presidential candidate and Arizona Senator precisely, and gave its support to SB 1070.
Leaders of Hispanic groups that constantly remind both parties that the electoral weight is the community, for its part announced meetings on Monday to prepare for demonstrations.
Mexico condemned on Saturday the law and said that the measure is “an obstacle to the solution of common problems in the border region and in North America as a whole.”
Honduran government also protested on Saturday and guatemaltecto.
” The Government of Guatemala regrets that this legislation has been approved and agreed with U.S. President Barack Obama that such laws threaten the basic notions of justice, “said a statement on Tegucigalpa.
” We are trampling are abusing our people, “criticized for its part, Honduran Foreign Minister, Mario Canhuati.