Differing Perspectives #3

Immigration

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-01/alabama-illegal-immigration-law/51031138/1

Columnist David Person defends illegal immigration by focusing specifically on the states Alabama and Kansas. He criticizes the governor of Alabama and the Kansas secretary of state for becoming extreme in their crackdown with illegal immigration, such as having immigration agents make routine traffic stops and requiring school systems to document the citizenship status of students. Person continues by saying that people are beginning to call it “Juan Crow” - in reference to the image for segregation that existed in the South before the civil-rights movement – because of the racial profiling Hispanics might experience. Person believes that such actions against illegal immigrants are examples of bigotry and fear and are not solutions.