Posted: 6:32 PM Apr 26, 2010

LULAC: Arizona’s New Anti-Illegal Law Unconstitutional, Racist


Reporter: Jason Aubry
Email Address: Jaubry@kktv.com


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A Latin American group here in southern Colorado is angry about Arizona's new law for cracking down on illegal immigrants.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is outraged at the new law that requires some people to carry proof of citizenship on them at all times. "If everyone was required to carry a birth certificate, I could understand that. But at this point only Hispanics, or people of color... brown... It's a crime to be brown in Arizona, that's what it amounts to! It amounts to racism, it amounts to racial profiling," says Tom Duran, Colorado State Director for LULAC.

Duran also says, his Jewish grandchildren are disgusted by the new law, drawing similarities between it and actions taken in Europe during World War II. "What's the next step? If we have to carry around a birth certificate, the next step is what, an armband to prove that we are US citizens?" questions Duran.

Arizona's governor Jan Brewer, signed the law into effect Friday, and since then hundreds of thousands have voiced their concern and disapproval of the measure.

While many admit there is an illegal immigrant problem, both in Arizona and throughout the nation as a whole, opponents of this new law say it’s not the way to go about fixing the immigration situation.

Duran and others say, this new law will lead to the rights of legal citizens being trampled, and he has contacted the national leadership of LULAC, to ask them to issue an immediate national boycott of all goods made in Arizona.

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