Arizona violating treaty ratified by U.S.

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By Chandra Bhatnagar, Special to CNN
May 21, 2010 10:51 a.m. EDT

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Chandra Bhatnagar: Experts say Arizona law will lead to increased racial profiling
Law violates Constitution as it makes any Latino a potential criminal suspect, he says
Bhatnagar: It's also a blatant violation of U.N. rights treaty, signed and ratified by the U.S.
He says it's time for U.S. to extend rights it expects from other nations to its own people

Editor's note: Chandra Bhatnagar is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program and principal author of "The Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States," recently submitted to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
(CNN) -- On the heels of the passage of Arizona's racial profiling law, tens of thousands of people from all over the country have marched in support of human rights and against the legislation.
That law, SB 1070, requires Arizona law enforcement agents to determine the citizenship status of people they stop if the officer has an undefined "reasonable suspicion" that the person is not in this country lawfully.

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