More than 70 University of Southern California students protested the new Arizona immigration law Thursday afternoon.
Monika Langarica, the protest organizer, explains her concerns with the Arizona immigration law. (Video shot by Alexis Zotos)
The protest, organized by MECHa (the student Chicano movement based out of USC), had some students carrying posters that said, “Being brown is not a crime.” Others wore signs over their heads that asked, “What looks like an illegal immigrant?”
The Arizona law makes it a state crime to be an illegal immigrant, and grants the police broad powers to stop anyone they believe, with “reasonable suspicion,” to be undocumented.
Greg Hoover, a USC senior, shares why he thinks the protest inhibited intellectual discussion.
