This action by Arizona is encompassing a global movement. Phillippine immigrants have been coming to the USA for decades to work in medical facilities in the USA nursing shortage. They are dedicated family focused citizens and they will refuse to let the opposition die.
The Alliance-Philippines (AJLPP) joins the mass mobilizations in more than 350 actions all over the nation led by unions and immigrant rights groups to say no to racial profiling and anti-immigrant campaigns, in Arizona and everywhere on Saturday, May 1, International Workers’ Day.
The racist law gives state and local police the power to act as federal immigration enforcers. The lawmakers who wrote and supported this bill said it was necessary to appropriate the tasks of the federal government because the federal government wasn’t doing “enough” on immigration. The already brisk pace of the federal racist anti-immigrant campaign just was not fast enough for the racist ruling class in the state of Arizona.
The law also makes not carrying proper documentation a misdemeanor. It institutionalizes racial profiling, giving the police a racist tool of oppression and the power to detain anyone they consider to have a “reasonable suspicion” of being an undocumented immigrant.
Immigrant Rights are Workers Rights
Since 2006, when the immigrant rights upsurge gave birth to the new civil rights movement’s in this century, when million stood up for the democratic rights of the workers from different nationalities who are exploited and oppressed by the capitalist system, we have stood for full rights for all immigrant....
