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The Article, Will Arizona's Tough Immigration Law Fuel Hispanic Turnout  for Democrats, was written by Arian Campo-Flores of Newsweek. The article is about the recent immigration law in Arizona and how it will affect the midterm elections in November. Campo- Flores feels that the law will create  a "boom to the Democrats." He also feels that it will not be effective, unless the Democrats learn how to 'control the power.' If they do, this boom will be equivalent to that of 2006 with the proposal of the "Sensenbrenner bill" in 2005 which made the California of Reagan and Nixon very democratic. The article also shows, that there could be potentially no difference at all, recent polls have shown that Hispanic political participation is at a all time low.

I chose this article because I am really interested to see how this issue will play out. I am very VERY against illegal immigration, and amnesty. I understand that there is too many of them, and financially we cannot afford to deport them all, but under no means should we reward them, by giving them citizen status, that is a slap in the face to every immigrant who spent years filling out papers to get here legally. It is easier to get here legally from Mexico than it is from any country in Africa or Asia, so why don't they take the time to get here legally, they will be able to sleep at night knowing that no one is after them. I am also against racial profiling, and I understand that we do need to catch them, but there are other ways to do it. I think that if someone is caught for another offense, like speeding, a police officer is allowed to ask for his or her papers. Or at a 7-11, where most day laborers in Herndon hangout, I think that police are allowed to ask those people for their papers, they are after all looking for work. I think that it is a shame that Herndon closed the day laborer  building, I think that it would have been an effective way of catching illegal immigrants here.

I'm very interested to see where this goes, both in Arizona, and nationally, with the midterm elections.