Amendment 10

Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration

Amendment 10- Power to the state and to the people.

This article is about Arizona making a law that will "get rid" of illegal immigrants. Arizona strongly believes that this law ahould be passed. This law will allow the police to detain anyone they suspsect to be an illegal immigrant. The article also states that president Obama feels strongly against this law. He thinks this law is wrong and shouldnt be passed. A lot of people have thier own opinions about this situation in the article. Roger Mahony says that this lay is like Nazism. Meaning there is racism and discrimination in this law.

The connection to this article to the tenth amendment is that this shows that the states and people have power. Amendment 10 states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The state Arizona definently took advantange of their power and made a law themselves to "step up." This is an example of Arizona having the power to make a law, and as well as the people, in this case the police, to detain anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. The amendment gives the state/people the power to do what they want for themselves without any real consent of Congress. The Tenth amendment protects them.

I strongly disagree with this law. I think its wrong in every way. This to me does seem like racism and discrimination. In other words, this law is allowing you to look at someone who looks Mexican and you have the "power" to say they might be an illegal immigrant. And then your words will be taken seriously. Its like history is repeating itself. Im glad to hear that president Obama is against this law because his head is in the right direction. He sees that Arizona is wrong, and they ARE.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html