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14 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 35 (2011)
Latinos and S.B. 1070: Demonization, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement

handle is hein.journals/hllr14 and id is 39 raw text is: LATINOS AND S.B. 1070: DEMONIZATION, DEHUMANIZATION, AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT Andrea Christina Nill* INTRODUCTION Last year, the Arizona state legislature approved the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, or Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070) as it is popularly known.' The provisions of the Bill are ex- plicitly intended to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful en- try and presence of aliens.2 S.B. 1070 contains a series of enforcement provisions aimed at broadening the immigration enforcement powers of lo- cal police and creates several new state crimes and penalties related to immi- gration law. On April 28, 2010, shortly after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Arizona's sweeping immigration bill into law, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and South African anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu wrote: Abominations such as apartheid do not start with an entire popula- tion suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here. They start with generalizing unwanted characteristics across an entire segment of a population. They start with trying to solve a problem by asserting superior force over a population. They start with stripping people of rights and dignity-such as the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty-that you yourself enjoy. Not because it is right, but because you can. And because somehow, you think this is going to solve a problem.' Half a year later, the most significant and controversial parts of the Bill have been enjoined.4 The federal government has been engaged in a bitter legal battle against Governor Brewer to stop S.B. 1070 from ever going into ef- fect, and there is a decent chance it will not.' However, the debate surround- * Immigration Researcher, Center for American Progress. B.A., Cornell University. I would like to thank Angela Kelley and Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress for their feedback and help. Thank you to the editors of the Harvard Latino Law Review for your excellent assistance. This Comment is up-to-date as of its submission in March 2011. ' 2010 Ariz. Sess. Laws 113. 2 Id. Desmond Tutu, Arizona: The Wrong Answer, HUFFINGTON POST (Apr. 29, 2010 9:24 PM), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/desmond-tutu/arizona- the-wrong-answ-b_557955. html. 4 United States v. Arizona, 703 F.Supp.2d 980, 995 (D. Ariz. 2010). ' See Amir Efrati, Law Profs On Arizona Immigration Bill: It's Unconstitutional, WALL ST. J., Apr. 23, 2010, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/04/23/law-profs-on-arizona-immigration- bill-its-unconstitutional/.

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