As the effective date of Arizona’s new immigration law nears, new concerns are being raised by municipal officials about how to effectively enforce it without creating a legal and financial quagmire.
At a public forum Tuesday, two southeast Valley mayors said the law could boomerang on its authors by actually reducing immigration enforcement because of its [...]
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he will mark the dawn of Arizona’s new immigration law next month with a crime-suppression operation should catch nobody by surprise.
Arpaio has been one of the most vocal supporters of the law. And he has made headlines for more than two years with his controversial immigration sweeps, typically placing dozens [...]
by Natalie Rivers
azfamily.com
Posted on June 18, 2010 at 6:37 PMUpdated Friday, Jun 18 at 6:45 PM
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PHOENIX – Arizona’s controversial new immigration law is set to take effect in just about a month.
That’s also when the federal government plans to slap Arizona with a lawsuit.
Friday was an eventful day [...]
Posted on 11 June 2010 by oscar
Not to be outdone the late segregationist, Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will go down in the history books as an ardent xenophobe and racist. Brewer’s hatred of immigrants and disregard for the civil rights of Latinos (both legal residents and citizens) have come to fruition [...]
It’s one of the safest parts of America, and it’s getting safer.
It’s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn’t so dangerous after all.
The top four big cities in America with the lowest rates of [...]
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From CRNLive Blog May 29, 2010 11:24 p.m.
By Frank M. Miranda
(Phoenix, Arizona)— Today was a great day! I was surrounded by wonderful peaceful people from at least seven states. We were gathered to voice our opposition to the bills passed [...]
(CNN) — They came from Los Angeles and San Diego, and Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Chicago, Seattle and, of course, Arizona — a river of humanity flooding the Phoenix streets to protest the state’s controversial immigration law.
The Arizona legislature passed the bill earlier this year and the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed it. In two [...]
Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law.
In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America contributed $980 for the governor’s [...]
A minority suppliers group that would have brought 7,000 convention attendees to Phoenix this fall has moved the meeting to Florida because of Arizona’s new immigration law.
The National Minority Suppliers Development Council, Inc. released a statement, which Phoenix officials received today.
The council is the latest of several out-of-town groups that have canceled Valley meetings because [...]
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