Topic > The infamous Arizona State Bill 1070 - 1468

For centuries, the immigrant and the xenophobic conceptualizations associated with the foreign body as a subject of anonymity and obvious criminality have been pushed to center stage in the realm of United States law in an attempt to implicitly establish the category of “other.” More recently, in one of the provisions of Arizona's infamous State Bill 1070 (Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act), enacted on April 23, 2010, it allows the immigration status of anyone to be checked based on reasonable suspicion that he or she may be without of documents. The impetus for SB 1070 is attributed to changing demographics that have led to a larger Hispanic population and increased violence related to drug and human trafficking in Mexico and Arizona. This action, however, was the direct result of the Arizona state government feeling the need to correct the consequences of the federal government's failure to implement a guided border policy. While these policies may seem like something that can easily be dismissed as normal in the context of our country's chronic symptom of border anxiety, there is a subtlety at work that concerns the constitutionality of certain provisions of SB 1070, both proposed and implemented. In essence, this bill is an exemplary example that traces the distinct relationship between politics and law. For example, a written law that serves as adequate policy might be deemed unconstitutional by a higher law. Although SB 1070 is, with the exemption of a rule, defined as constitutional, it represents the antithesis of the aforementioned idea so much so as to impose constraints so harsh that it can also be considered an obstacle to naturalized rights, and is therefore unconstitutional as a sense . In this article, I will talk... halfway through the article...... about national politics and the flaws in understanding our, what should be, color-blind interpretation of national identity. Works Cited"Senate Bill 1070." Arizona Legislature. Arizona State Senate, nd Web. April 2010. Cisneros, Josue David. The Border Crossed Us: Border Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity. 4th ed. Alabama: U of Alabama, 2014. 93-118. Print.Foucault, Michel. "Panottism". Discipline and punishment: the birth of the prison. New York: Pantheon, 1977. 46-72. Print.Ana, Otto Santa and Celeste González De Bustamante. Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. 197, 132-143. Print.Kunichoff, Yanna and Margaret Hu. “Could a new argument against SB1070 prove that the law is unconstitutional?” Truth. Truthout, 26 April 2012. Web. 01 May 2014.