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[tuanita]

An update: Before the Arizona law has even gone into effect, a US citizen has been stopped and taken to jail for not having sufficient documentation on him. I feel so bad for these people. The husband was stopped and asked for his identification, and showed his commercial driver's license and gave his social security number, but was taken to jail

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[wonderocalypse]

This is so sad. In the news article I linked on my journal, they're talking about shutting down "[courses] designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group" and it's like WHAT ARE YOU SAYING. I mean really, that is so utterly vague - first of all what exactly defines an ethnic group (because Mexican-American studies would necessarily cover several ethnicities as far as I understand it - it would start with the Spanish in the New World, and then the Indians and slaves and resulting classes/groups of people from those interactions, and so on...), and secondly how is a course designed primarily for a group - are these classes not open to everyone? And made for everyone to learn from?

I mean this is such thinly veiled racism I don't understand how this is being allowed to go on. I really hope constituents vote every one of these racist tyrants out of office.

[tuanita]

Yeah, I can definitely see what you're saying. If it were something where people had to prove their "Mexican-American-ness" at the door of the classroom to be able to get into the class, of course that's not something that they should be doing... but it's hard to believe that that's really what's going on. =\ It's sad, too, because I'm sure that most of the people who are advocating for these laws are firmly convinced that they're not racist, that they're just trying to "save America" or something.