The poster 01/05/2010
Luca Celada
LOS ANGELES, May 1 will be a "unified" the banner of immigration in Los Angeles, where the events will feed into a single large procession to give voice to the movement of immigrants. That after the massive mobilization of three years ago was returned to be largely invisible. Until the Arizona case, thanks to the infamous 1070 law, signed this week by Governor Jan Brewer. That is proving to be a disastrous move for the image of the state, criticized the federal government, church and large newspapers and ridiculed by cartoonists and comedians middle America. The law, which should come into force in summer, introduces the crime of illegal immigration by allowing the police to "check the immigration status" and may stop people who are 'likely in a state of lawlessness. " Against Arizona, There is a kind of national revolt. In the state of tourism in the Grand Canyon that has a major economic resources, the hotel reservations were canceled in avalanche and some students have decided not to enroll at the University of Arizona. The city council of San Francisco has been voted a resolution to terminate business relationships with our neighbors to the east. A similar measure is pending in Los Angeles to pick investments and close trade agreements with Arizona. The away games for the Diamondbacks, the baseball team of Phoenix, were made the subject of protests in Chicago. The same city of Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff have used against their own state. In short, a nightmare public relations for the state stronghold of the conservative movement, from Barry Goldwater to John McCain, with a strong presence of the Minutemen, the militia-style anti-immigrant 'League. " Arizona has a large population of "Latin", about a third of the 7 million Hispanic population is estimated at 450,000 and the "illegal". The law has caused an international diplomatic incident with Mexico, the country which until 1849 covered the whole territory of the state. They codify into law the dangers of certain populist instincts, to help ignite like tea parties and movements "celoduristi" but much more problematic once institutionalized. Species under a federalist, where the systems of States should submit to the authority of Washington. It is likely, eventually, the law severely criticized by Barack Obama may be invalidated by federal courts even before coming into force, due to the inability to formulate criteria of "suspected illegal immigrants" that are not based on "racial profiling" and therefore unconstitutional. The logic is indeed hard-line similar to that of rejections, with the declared aim of making life so unbearable for immigrants in Arizona so far as to make them go away, anywhere as long as outside the borders of the state most ungenerous. In part this is a provocation and as the proponents contend, an act of esasperazione verso le autorità federali la cui politica di fortificazione dei valichi in Texas e California ha avuto l'effetto di riversare i flussi clandestini sul «Tucson Sector». Qui la guardia di frontiera pattuglia il vasto deserto impiegato come «barriera naturale» (che fa ogni anno centinaia di vittime fra i disgraziati che tentano di attraversarlo a piedi). Sta di fatto che la legge pone fondamentali problemi di ordine etico e pratico; da un lato introduce quella che è a tutti gli effetti una legge razziale, mirata a una minoranza specifica, mentre dall'altro assicura la diffidenza delle istituzioni di milioni di persone dalla pelle bruna. Non sorprende che una delle prime cause intentate per bloccarla sia stata quella di un poliziotto addetto Hispanic neighborhoods in Tucson, who was unable to work for the new duties of customs and surrounded by a hostile population. The law is particularly untenable in the American Southwest where the Hispanic population has historical roots and in several cities make up the majority of the population, inextricably linked to social and economic fabric of the region. In this regard, one of the most demagogic lie that fuels anti-immigrant sentiment in the American melting pot is the alleged social costs of a population whose economic contribution is actually
far superior to the services they receive. And yet integral reality of the global economy and "glocal", as evidenced by a visit to a qualunque campo agricolo del Southwest, coltivato da una manodopera interamente ispanica. Il caso Arizona presagisce il dibattito sulla riforma della legge sull'immigrazione che dovrebbe essere, dopo quella sulla finanza, la prossima battaglia affrontata da Obama, battaglia che fin da ora non promette però molto più di un riformismo moderato senza sostanziali soluzioni a una questione che solo la crisi economica ha temporaneamente attenuato. Al di là di questo, lo stato dell'Arizona ha dimostrato come l'immigrazione sia problema topico e trasversale dei nostri tempi, reale quanto adatto a strumentalizzazioni demagogiche e, in questo caso, ad atti di populismo plateale quanto inconsulto.
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