Event Title

Arizona Immigration Law

Presenter Information

Travis Nelson, Minnesota State University, Mankato
David Perez, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Benjamin Morgan, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Patrick Mooney, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Location

CSU 284A

Start Date

4-4-2011 11:00 AM

End Date

4-4-2011 12:30 PM

Student's Major

Accounting and Business Law

Student's College

Business

Mentor's Name

Vicki Luoma

Mentor's Department

Accounting and Business Law

Mentor's College

Business

Description

Arizona‘s controversial immigration law, and the general lack of understanding about it, motivated our group to present a detailed overview of its policies. The bill‘s importance has been shown through the media coverage dedicated to it, though its real impacts are often misinterpreted. Our goal is to understand both sides of the deeply divided argument over the law, and to help inform others to better make their own judgment concerning the topic.

The issues many people have with the law are that they violate individual‘s right to privacy, and enables racial profiling as a means of identifying illegal immigrants. Others would argue that the law is a necessary evil to deter what they perceive to be the larger problem of illegal immigration.