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 Arizona governor responds to U.N. human rights criticism
The office of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is firing back in response to a United Nations human rights statement criticizing Arizona. But the United Nations is not the target of the governor's reaction.
On Monday in Geneva the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued a statement warning of what it called "a disturbing legal pattern hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants." The statement said that Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigration contained language raising "serious doubts about the law's compatibility with relevant international human rights treaties to which the United States is a part."
In response to a query from KGUN9 News, on Wednesday Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman issued a statement taking aim not at the United Nations, but at the United States federal government. The statement read, "If the Arizona law violates the international standards, then so does the federal law upon which it is based. This once again illustrates that border security is a federal issue that the federal government has neglected for decades, thus forcing states like Arizona to act to protect the safety and well-being of its citizens."
The United Nations statement was also critical of HB 2281, a measure Governor Brewer signed into law on Wednesday placing restrictions on public school ethnic studies programs.
The U.N. statement said the new law is "at odds with the State's responsibility to respect the right of everyone to have access to his or her own cultural and linguistic heritage and to participate in cultural life."
A Tucson law professor, S. James Anaya, was one of six international human rights experts who helped write the U.N. statement. A University of Arizona law college spokesman told KGUN9 News that Anaya is out of the country and not immediately available for comment.
(2010-05-12 / KGUN9-TV)
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