How do most citizens view the fact that the SB1070 has been branded by many as controversial and has logically led to a lot of indignation throughout the country? According to this law any alien who enters the U.S., eludes examination by immigration officers, or obtains entry to the U.S. by a willfully false or misleading representation is guilty of improper entry by an alien. This may turn out to be a major problem for a city like Phoenix, which is well-known for its Legal Translator, because it is estimated that thousands of people live in Arizona illegally. Logically, in such a hostile environment, the only way to cope with the English language problems is to benefit from services like the one outlined above. It should be pointed out that a U.S. resident not having the proper documentation is considered an illegal alien. The fact that calls for boycotts of everything that has any relation with Arizona are heard everywhere may have an even more negative impact on the whole situation. Thus lots of employees of Phoenix Translation will be threatened to be left unemployed. Thus the whole situation becomes unbearable for immigrants living in Phoenix and in the state of Arizona, as the U.S. has never been famous for a positive attitude to immigration.
To express their compassion with the people of Phoenix, Arizona, the citizens of San Diego, California went out on the street to demonstrate against this new law. In a procession accompanied by singing and beating drums, they marched throughout the city until they reached the federal building. Many workers left their premises in order to watch the protesters who were accompanied by police motorcycles and cars. Some of the spectators were employees of the San Diego Translation. They were very concerned about their economic status and supported the immigrants as lots of them regularly use their services. Among the many protesters who had come to the Chicano Park to express their disapproval with the new law was Angelica Hueso-Garcia. Her way of protesting against an unjust law that she described as “racial profiling at its worst” was to bring her children and the whole of her extended family of twelve. This is why a similar concern was expressed by translation and interpretation workers who thought that such sanctions could endanger their business of providing the immigrants with Birth Certificate Translation Services and Marriage Certificate Translation Services.
Just as there were demonstrators against the new immigration law, there were some who supported it. Luckily, the police managed to put firm grip on the situation as the opposing parties only exchanged gestures and shouted obscene words at each other. They also tried to get into physical fight but were unsuccessful to do any harm. As yellow tape was separating the two groups San Diego police had also moved them about fifty feet apart. The protesters to the Arizona law sang “Stop racial profiling” and “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!?” while the supporters of the immigration law shouted “Build a Fence” and “We love Arizona.” There were many other demonstrations throughout the country by people who demanded that immigration laws should be changed in order to give the aliens the chance to attain legal status. Thus they express their dissatisfaction with the policy led by Congress and Barack Obama.