Some strange things happening around the country nowadays as the governor of Arizona has declared that the Cinco de Mayo will no longer be celebrated in the state. The news has come as a harsh warning to all the Mexican people living in Arizona and has done nothing more than to shock them. Cinco de Mayo which literally means the fifth of March in Spanish is a day that many Mexicans celebrate with parades and different events but this year will be different and it will be a sullen day for the multi-ethnic state which has been enjoying the celebrations of Cinco de Mayo since it can remember.
Governor Jan Brewer who is now eighty-nine years of age spoke to the press with a Spanish translator so as to leave no confusion behind in the non-English speaking population of Arizona. This is coming as something that is showing the current trend of the state as recently a highly controversial immigration bill came into discussion which would require each citizen and visitor or immigrant to carry their personal immigration documentations at all time. The bill gets harsher when one realizes that the police will be given the authority by this bill to check any random person on the street that they find suspicious – a new era of racial profiling aching to be released on the populace of Arizona indeed.
Brewer said that she was not alone in making this decision and that she would not be bullied by celebrities or the president of the country into anything other than what she deems fit for Arizona.
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