From [HERE] Members of the Hispanic community in southern Arizona say they have experienced racial profiling by the police after the entry into force of the “show me your papers” provision of the state’s harsh immigration law.

Martha Angel Castillo, a volunteer with the Arizona Human Rights Coalition, said that one of the cases on which she is currently working is that of a women who identified herself only as Maria Estela and who after being subjected to 12 years of domestic violence dared to file a complaint against her husband.

“When the police officer came to her home, her husband (a U.S. citizen) told the officer that Maria Estela was an undocumented immigrant, and the officer called her outside and handcuffed her immediately,” said Angel during a community forum in Tucson.

She said the officer called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which arrested the immigrant and waited until the following day to take her to a hospital where she received medical attention for the beating she had suffered at the hands of her husband.