Outline

Paragraph 1: General Discrimination in the U.S. and the timeline of it. Recent Bill Passed by
Arizona and how it approves of discrimination to the hispanic population. Thesis statement (my
opinion on the issue)

Paragraph 2-3: History of Discrimination within the U.S. Sourses needed(stated)

Paragraph 4-6: Extent of the problem (who is affected; how bad is it, etc.). Sources
needed
Paragraphs 7-8: Repercussion of the problem if not solved. Sources needed.
Paragraphs 9-10: You should have led up to a conclusion that your argument is sound.
Pull it all together by connecting your argument with the facts. Anticipate objections and
make concessions.
Paragraph 11: Conclusion: Restatement of thesis and summary of main ideas.

Sources
Roy L. Garis Immigration Restriction: A Study of the Opposition to and Regulation of
Immigration
into the United States, 1927

John Winthrop "A Defence of an Order of the Court,"

in Emerson Edward Proper,
Colonial Immigration Laws - A Study of the Regulation of Immigration by the English
Colonies in America, 1900

Matthew Spalding, PhD "From Pluribus to Unum: Immigration and the Founding
Fathers," Policy Review, Winter, 1994

Roger Daniels, PhD Guarding the Golden Door, American Immigration Policy and
Immigrants Since 1882, 2004

Benjamin Munn Ziegler, PhD Immigration: An American Dilemma, 1953

Jorge Durand, PhD "From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration
Policies," Migration Policy Institute, Mar. 2004
Jorge Durand, PhD "From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies," Migration Policy Institute,
Mar. 2004

CNN "All Politics: Most Of California's Prop. 187 Ruled Unconstitutional," www.cnn.com, Mar. 19, 1998
 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, September 2004),

Medical Emergency: Costs of UncompensatedCare in Southwest Border Counties

(September 2002),

Discrimination is the umfair treatment of a person or group of persons on the

basis of prejudice. During the Civil Rights movement, African Americans fought for
their right to stand proud among their European counterparts. Today, many years later,
there is still a prejudice amongst these two races. Recently the state of Arizona passed a
bill, SB 1070, which revised the states laws on illegal immigration. When looking at the
bill and siteing the many different forms of media, one can insure there are two ways to
approach this subject. Illegal imigration does not strengthen our country but weakens it,
regardless illigal immigrants are still people and deserve to be treated humainly. In light
of the recent actions by the state of Arizona, society has stepped back in time when
discrimination was acceptable and failed to find a solution that would propel the populace
forward.
Illegal immigration has been a problem the United States has faced since its first
conseptions in 1607 when the first colonials started to carve their own path. In 1637 the
General Court of Massachusetts made the first step to stop illegal immigration by stating
that no town or person should harbor or take in an immigrant without permission. During
the years of 1781-1788 the Articles of Confederation later to be adopted by the U.S.
Constitution, allowed individual States to control when and how citizenship and
naturalization would occur. The first illegal immigrants ever to be recognized as illegal
were the 50,000 slaves that were brought to the U.S. as part of the slave trade which
ended in 1808 because of the experation of Article 1, Section 9, of the Constitution.
Outside of New York city on Bedloe's Island stands the Statue of Liberty, in 1886
when it was unveiled, became a worldwide beacon of acceptance. The poem, "The New
Colossus" written by Emma Lazarus, became an icon or masterpiece of hope and
insperation. By 1943 World War II decreased the population of America's workforce so
much that the US Government began the "Bracero" program which begain by bringing
5,000,000 Mexican laborers acorss the border to fill jobs. By 1964 the “Bracero” program
was called to a halt but still undocumented laborers continued to arrive from Mexico do
to better paying jobs. Towards the end of the century the state of California passed
Proposition 187 which was approved by voters on the 8th of November 1994. Proposition
was later rejected by the US District Court because it was found unconstitutional, this
proposition would have denied health care, education, and welfare benefits to illegal
immigrants. The US District Court showed high morals and a sense of humanity when
rejecting the proposition, while also stating that it was the federal government’s
responsibility to regulate immigration and not the states’.
Although the US District Court stated that it was the federal government’s
responsibility to regulate immigration, several years later and very recently Arizona
passed a bill called “SB 1070”. SB 1070 has advocates on both sides of the plate, those
who view it as a much needed reform to halt illegal immigration, and those who view it
as a way Arizona’s law enforcement agencys can legally practice discrimination. The
cost of illegal immigration can be measured multiple ways where money becomes the
key reason to stop illegal immigration. Medical Emergency: Costs of Uncompensated
Care in Southwest Border Counties (September 2002), reported that the hospitals in the
twenty-four border counties incurred $190 million in health care expenses by
undocumented immigrants. Illegal immigration will not stimulate the United States
economic crisis, behind all the cut backs that the border states has proceeded to
implement over the years, illegal immigration continues to costs tax payers money.
Because of the costs incurred by many of the Border States and the hazards that illegal
immigration presents, Arizona has taken illegal immigration into their own hands no
longer waiting for the federal government to take action.
SB 1070 prohibits local agencys from restricting Federal Agencys from
completing their investigations. If a federal agency procededs to investigate the legal
status of an individual, local agencys would be unable to complete their investigations
until the federal agencys had completed theirs. This process could delay fines or judicial
punishment to a member who resides within the US legally, therefore slowing the entire
process down as well as costing tax payers money for the time the individual is held.
Judicial judgment will not be allowed to hamper investigations, even if it the federal
investigation is started after the judicial process has already begun. Under any
circumstance once an arrest is made the immigration status of the individual must be
verified before an individual is set to be released. This could cause numerous problems
with the overcrowding of prison systems and local county lock ups, it does not seem
feesable that a federal agency would begin an investigation on a weekend or late nights,
justifying the fact that a person will be no worse for wear to stay in lockup over night.
Once an illegal immigrant has been arrested and the investigations are complete if
it is the persons first offense then they receive a class 1 misdemeanor, does the federal
agencys drop them across the border after charging them with this and hope they don’t
come back but also fail to collect court fines? If the same person commits an offense
while in possession of a dangerous drug, precoursor chemicals for methamphetamine, a
deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument, or property used for committing an act of
terrorism, then the penalty is increased to a class 3 felony. The violations become a class
4 felony if it happens to be a second or subsequent violation, or is within 60 days of the
person being removed from the US. With all the opertunities for illegal immigrants to
become apart of the population of the nations prison systems, it is garenteed that the tax
payers will continue to pay for immigrants for years to come. When immigrants are
placed into a prison population we pay for th