Edited sentence: After the passage of SB1070, Mexican immigrant communities in Arizona have been targeted through the practice of racial profiling.Border security issues gave rise to the passage of propositions 187 in 1994 and proposition 227 in 1998  (Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside).Ohio in 1968.Post 9/11, the racial profiling of the Muslim community has occurred under the guise of the Patriot Act passed in order to ensure homeland security.The connection of immigrant communities becoming racially profiled as a result of such policies have more recently developed in the passage of policies like the Patriot Act in 2001 and SB1070 in 2010.The history of racial profiling has roots established as early as the beginning of Japanese Interment and in many Supreme Court Cases such as the Terry v.Thinking of the notions homeland security and what it means to be an illegal alien creates a dialogue towards understanding why policies have been enacted to target immigrant communities of color for many years in the United States.This case gave police officers the agency to stop suspects without probable cause to conduct searches and seizures without violating the Fourth Amendment.Threatened homeland security has been a constant reason to enact policies that permit racial profiling over the years