There’s already been news coverage on the tug-of-war over whether state troopers should help enforce immigration law. Admittedly this is sort of a cross-post, but I wanted to share a piece by Anjali Waikar, the Equal Justice Works Fellow for the ACLU of Massachusetts.
It’s called Driving While Immigrant, and it’s a look at what she hears meeting with people around the state on this issue. Sort of like “Driving While Black,” police seem to target brown-skinned immigrants too, whether they’re doing anything unusual or not.
We think it’s bad for all kinds of reasons: it’s not fair; it encourages immigrants to avoid and mistrust the police instead of going to them when public safety is really at risk; and it even creates problems and frustrations for immigrants who are here legally.
