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Arizona Clergy Denounce Anti-Immigrant Bill
The Arizona Star, the state’s second largest newspaper, reports that religious leaders held a press conference yesterday to denounce the state’s new anti-immigrant law.
The state’s new immigration law is unethical and racist and goes against the values of most Arizonans, nearly 40 church and religious faith leaders said Wednesday.
The law “is immoral, unethical and racist,” said the Rev. Alison Harrington, pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church where a noon news conference was held.
“Calling it what it is,” Harrington and the other faith representatives said of the bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week. It will instill more fear among the immigrant communities and lead to racial profiling and abuse of police power, she said.
“It is an act of injustice aimed at people whose appearance is suspect,” said Rev. Carmen B. Guerrero of Phoenix, representing the Episcopal bishop and church of Arizona.
“To say there will be no racial profiling is an insult to the integrity of all Arizonans,” Guerrero said.
Speakers pledged that they and their congregations will resist the new law, which is expected to take effect this summer if not challenged in court.
Tags : arizona, arizona boycott, sb 1070
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