Dear Governor Brewer:

As professors of The Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California Davis, we join the national movement of academic scholars, civic and community leaders and the potential victims in Arizona of racial profiling, against of the state of Arizona's new immigration law S.B. 1070.

Our research and years of accumulated experience affirm that there is no way for police to establish and employ "race neutral" criteria to determine whether someone is in this country illegally. There are approximately 200 foreign languages spoken in the U.S. Add to that number the dozens of distinct languages of Native Americans in Arizona, clearly suggests that English only speakers are limited in their ability to communicate and apply an impartial approach for identifying "illegal aliens."

We also protest Arizona's legislation to ban the curriculum of ethnic studies in K-12. In today's world of global tension and mis-information, there is a greater need than ever before to expand the curriculum of ethnic studies.

To infer that a curriculum in ethnic studies can be anti-American and seditious in nature, only serves to demonstrate a form of racial superiority by English-only advocates, state legislators and school authorities of Arizona.

More appalling to us is that S.B. 1070 taxes the time and need for police to address day-to-day matters of crime and justice.

Until S.B. 1070 is rescinded we will support all efforts to boycott Arizona as a state of prejudice and bigotry against immigrants, people of color, and peoples of Mexico.

Hasta la victoria!

The faculty and staff of Chicana/o Studies
University of California, Davis