This is my persuasive speech.

1. What do you think of when you hear the word ' immigrant'?
Did the image of a poor looking person pop in your mind? Perhaps someone with colored skin?
Next, I want you to image you're out for a walk, because it's a beautiful day. The sun is shining, it's nice
and warm. So you're walking when suddenly you see a police officer in a patrol car. At first your thinking
on he's just on his patrol, when you realize he's actually pulling over to talk to you. The police officer asks
you for ID. Perhaps you don't have it with because you were out going for a simple walk; maybe by
chance you do have it with you.
However, you ask the cop why he needs to talk to you. He said he needs ID to prove you're not an
immigrate. So you tell the cop because you were just out for a walk you don’t have any ID on you, but that
you are not an immigrate. You reassure the cop that you are not an immigrate and after a while he
believes you and leaves. After all of this you are shocked that a cop would pull over to talk to you
because he thought you were an immigrant!
This is what Hispanics are worried the new Arizona immigration law is going to do.
This speech is about as you could tell the new Arizona immigration law. This law is wrong, it could be
used to be racial and it is not the answer to our problem with illegal immigrants. I am interested in this
because this could be used against me because of my race, if I lived in Arizona or if this immigration law
is made in every state. First I will go over a summery of the new Arizona immigration law. Second how it
is wrong. And finally how this is not the answer to our problem with illegal immigrants and tell you the
solution that I believe will work.
The New Arizona immigration law means that all immigrants in Arizona must now carry their alien
registration documents. It also means that police can stop, detain, or arrest a suspect, if the officer can
document "reasonable suspicion" of that person being an illegal alien.
This not only means you ALWAYS have to carry some kind of ID to prove you are not an illegal
immigrant, but this can be used to make racial profiling legal! This also goes against our 14th Amendment
in the Constitution. The Constitution states in the 14th Amendment under Section 1. Citizenship “All
persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the
United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the Untied States; nor shall any state deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.” That being said this law goes against the Section 1 under the 14th
Amendment in the Constitution!
Illegal immigrants give an opportunity for terrorists, drug dealers, and other criminals to enter the country.
This is why we need immigration laws, but this new one goes over board.
According to Homeland Security there was an estimate of 10.8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. Illegal
immigrants can mean more opportunity for terrorists, drug dealers, and other criminals to enter the
country. According to BBC News “Most of the violence remains firmly on the Mexican side of the border,
but there is some evidence of increasingly violent attacks on US border patrol agents by drug traffickers.
There has also been a reported rise in drug-related shootings and kidnappings in some US cities and
towns, especially in the south-west.”
Now this new law affects Hispanic Americas. According to the U.S. Census Bureau “As of July 1, 2006:
There is 44.3 million Hispanics, which is 14.8% of total population of 299 million.” Because of theses

2. views on immigrants is why the new Arizona immigration law has come about. I’m not completely sure
how you pounce his last name, but Joe Sucuzhanay was walking home from a party in Brooklyn, N.Y., in
December of 2008 when two strangers attacked him with an aluminum bat. "They were about to get
home, like maybe 50 feet from the home," Jose's brother Diego said. "Two guys jumped out of the SUV
and Jose was attacked and hit his head. ... He was knocked out. And ... they kept hitting with a baseball
bat." Doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain but the damage was too great, and Jose died a
week later from his injuries. But this wasn't just a random attack -- police said it was a hate crime,
committed because Jose was Hispanic!
Because of these opinions there is lot of racism against Hispanics. Mario Rodriguez wakes up at 5 a.m.
seven days a week and walks two miles to a spot on the side of the road in, N.J., where he and 30 to 40
other Hispanic men hope they'll get picked up for a day of work. Rodriguez, who speaks little English said
he, has felt the sting of discrimination. "There are some places that don't want us there," Rodriguez told
ABC News. "When we go into a diner, sometimes they won't even sell us a sandwich."
That is just one story of racism against Hispanics. There are more, even worse like. When a detective
came to Joselo Lucero's door and told him his brother had been fatally stabbed by seven teenagers..
Marcello Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant from N.Y., was stabbed to death Nov. 8, 2008 by a
gang of teens -- six white and one Hispanic. Media reports have said the teens set out that night to attack
a Mexican, but a district attorney office spokesman couldn't substantiate those claims. Now his death has
sparked a shock wave of anger and sadness in this community on New York's Long Island, with Hispanic
leaders saying it took a murder for attention to finally be turned to ongoing racial tension between
Hispanics, whites.
Now these sad stories are horrible, and theses views on immigrants is why the new Arizona immigration
law has come about, but this law will not solve the problem. Instead this law will cause more racism
against immigrants, Hispanic, etc... I believe the solution to this problem is that both Countries need to
work together on this problem. This solution will fix the problem because if both countries work on this
problem, it will become harder for people to get into the U.S. illegally. This will be because both countries
will be making it harder for this to happen. The plan to get this solution to happen is to first let the
government know we want this problem fixed by both countries working on this problem! We can let the
government know this by signing petitions, boycotting Arizona etc... Once they have heard this they would
hopefully look at this as a solution, and actually try it.
The results from this if the government tried this solution, there would not be as many illegal immigrants;
there would not be this new Arizona immigration law that can be used as legal racial profiling. After all we
want to stop illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.
Now that you know about the Arizona immigration law; which, makes it easy for racial profiling to be legal.
And the solution that I believe will work to solve the problem of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. I
hope you will help fight against the Arizona immigration law, and will let the government know that this is
not the right solution for this problem!