Profiling Immigration in the U.S

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Immigration profiling has become a recent issue in the United States. This is primarily due to the fact that “the immigrant population in the United States grew considerably over the past 50 years” (Garcia 1). States are enacting laws that grant law enforcement the right to profile any one person that they believe is an illegal immigrant. On April 23, 2010, Arizona’s “Governor Brewer issued Executive Order 2010-09 requiring the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board to establish training to ensure law enforcement officials and agencies apply SB 1070 consistent with federal laws regulating immigration, protecting the civil rights of all people and respecting the privileges and immunities of United States citizens” (Morse 1). Currently law enforcement agencies in many states are profiling any person that is of a different race, color, and nationality. Therefore the conflict remains, what would be an agreeable method of enforcement that is considered ethical and constitutionally correct?
Profiling is used a lot in the media, but many do not give a clear definition of exactly what it means. It defined as being “the practice of singling out persons for law enforcement procedures on the basis of predetermined characteristics; the discriminatory practice of profiling based on race or ethnicity” (Merriam-Webster Inc. 1). A majority of profiling elevated after the attack of the World Trade Towers in Manhattan New York, on September 11, 2001, the Pentagon in Washington D.C, and United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Stoneycreek Township, Pennsylvania by nineteen terrorist belonging to Al Qaeda that had hijacked four planes. Al Qaeda members are known to dislike the way of life that Americans live and are a constant threat t...

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