SB 1070 Violates International Law, Too.

Add international law to the list of legal obligations violated by the Arizona law that encourages racial profiling.
 
As reported, a legal panel of 6 United Nations human rights experts have condemned SB 1070, saying, “A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin”. The experts assert that "states are required to respect and ensure the human rights of all persons subject to their jurisdiction, without discrimination."
 
Sounds like other legal language I’ve heard somewhere…
 
“…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” (emphasis added)
 
This language is the Fourteenth Amendment of our Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and due process of the law to all people in the United States, even non-citizens. Of course, SB 1070 is not just a violation of due process to non-citizens, it is a denial of due process for American citizens in Arizona that fit the profile of what law enforcement determines is an illegal immigrant.
 
It is becoming ever clearer that SB 1070 violates our Bill of Rights and human rights, as affirmed by the UN Human Rights panel. Our immigration system is clearly broken, but laws that violate our own Constitution, as well as human rights treaties that the United States is bound to, will not fix it.
 
Fortunately, the ACLU, along with MALDEF and the National Immigration Law Center have sued to prevent this law from ever going into effect.