Evan McMorris-Santoro: But Republicans are now hedging on earlier assertions that the Grand Canyon State is a pipe dream for Democrats. The Republican National Committee told TPM Wednesday that they consider Arizona in the same category as Missouri and Indiana — states that seem safely red, but can't be ignored. Republicans have an emergency battle plan ready to go just in case things in Arizona start going the way Democrats hope they will.
The Center for Public Integrity: The Arizona-based Goldwater Institute and the Michigan-based Mackinac Center between them successfully shepherded five model bills through ALEC's Commerce, Insurance, and Economic Development Task force -- all targeting public sector unions. | Goldwater representative Byron Schlomach introduced two bills, one requiring that public employees approve their state employer's automatic deduction of union dues from paychecks every year.
House Republicans€™ retooled Violence Against Women Act, which passed Wednesday, guts protections for immigrant victims. The White House is promising a veto€”but advocates of abused women tell Michelle Goldberg they€™re still scared.
Minority races – Hispanics, blacks and Asians and other mixed races – accounted for 50.4 per cent of births over the year to July, accounting for a majority for the first time in US history.
The American Civil Liberties Union says for-profit detention centers are making money off immigrants pain. | On Wednesday, the ACLU released a 182-page report outlining concerns it has about Georgia's four detention centers: Atlanta City in Atlanta, North Georgia in Gainesville, Irwin County in Ocilla and Stewart County in Lumpkin. Three of the detention centers are operated by private, for-profit companies.
"This report documents serious abuses in Georgia detention centers requiring immediate action," said Azadeh Shahshahani, National Security/ Immigrants ' Rights Project Director with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Georgia.
Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report released Wednesday by Human...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of female immigrant farm workers in the United States are at risk of sexual violence and harassment, the organization Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday. The 95-page report titled "Cultivating...
By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times ATLANTA — Suspected illegal immigrants in Georgia are suffering from a “systemic violation … of civil and human rights ” during their confinement in “substandard” federal immigration detention facilities...
JUAN CARLOS LLORCA,AP ANTHONY (AP) — About 400 residents of the tiny border town of Anthony have signed a petition demanding that local law enforcement officers stop random immigration checks, activists said Wednesday. Border Network for Human Rights...
AP Member Choice Complete: New 2011 census estimates due to be released indicate that 'an important landmark' has been reached in U.S. demographic evolution as longtime immigration growth ebbs, an expert says.
Patrick Leahy of Vermont asked Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter Tuesday to examine whether Arpaio's office used federal dollars given to the county for jailing illegal immigrants on detaining people whose civil rights were allegedly violated.
Arizona Department of Public Safety and Mohave County Gang Immigration Intelligence Enforcement Mission, or GIITEM, hosted a Gang Resistance Education And Training, or G.R.E.A.T., graduation for 135 fourth- and sixth-graders Wednesday at Havasupai Elementary School.
Carol Leitner says that, among other things, she revealed her support for Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law. | Her trouble apparently began in 2004. According to the Journal News (http:/ / lohud.us/ KgYwaG ), the speech teacher was disciplined after telling a student to press his large lips together more firmly while pronouncing certain sounds.
The fact of the matter is that both political parties favor illegal immigration and the situation with the porous border just as it is. It is in the best self-interest of the politicians. | In the long run, the Republican strategy is self-defeating and contributing to Democratic control of the country for years to come. Nikita Khrushchev said it best when he said, "I will hang you and you will sell me the rope."
The Select Board has thrown its support behind a resolution critical of a federal immigration enforcement program and the town's participation in it - and now Town Meeting will weigh in on the matter. | Residents concerned about the Secure Communities Act sought to pass the resolution but town officials said the measure could jeopardize state and federal police grants.
Seven thousand immigrants became citizens last year through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Memphis, which serves Tennessee and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi.
The question of immigration laws is always a touchy subject. | It€™s agreed that it€™s the federal government that should tackle the problem, but when nothing is done, should the states step in? | Should police be required to check the citizenship status of anyone that they pull over? The logic of this is that it doesn€™t focus on a particular race, only on anyone who is breaking the law. | We already check for driver€™s licenses.
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
For the first time in history, there were more minority children born in the United States than white, according to 2011 census data released on Thursday. | The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 50.4 percent of children born in a 12-month period that ended last July were Hispanic, black, Asian American or from other minorities groups, while non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in that span.
In Short Run, a Work Permit and Driver's License Are Possible; 2013 Date Set for Individual Hearing to Pursue 'Cancellation of Removal' | 0 5 Pew Profile on Dominicans in the U.S.
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. | New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now resulting in fewer Hispanics entering the U.S. | "This is an important landmark,"
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The arrests ended the protests outside the immigration courts. Occupy Chicago and many Latino youth marched away down busy Canal Street, chanting and shouting, with the police chasing behind them. A Chicago police wagon soon roared after them with lights and sirens blaring, as the protesters disappeared from sight. | Reports and analysis from the Occupy protests sweeping the country.
The statement indicated that other commercially valuable products of the mind to be discussed at the seminar are the rights to publicity, trade secrets, moral rights and the rights against unfair competition. | The Ministry said the seminar would be conducted in phases. | The first phase, the Ministry said, would focus on employees of the Ministry of Commerce while the second phase would focus on line Ministries and Agencies.
I just read a beautiful 40-page essay on Aldape in Mexicans on Death Row, by Ricardo Ampudia, the former head of the Mexican consulate in Houston. The author gives a glimpse of the social climate in 1982. The poor Magnolia area of Houston where Aldape landed was €œnot a bucolic neighborhood€ — street fights and gunfire were not that uncommon €“ and the police were particularly wary, and cynical, that year. They accused Aldape...
Their primary weapon in this crusade is a model bill that says children must have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen (or resident alien) in order to be eligible for state citizenship.
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Hundreds of thousands of immigrant farmworker women and girls in the United States face a high risk of sexual violence and sexual harassment in their workplaces because US authorities and employers fail to protect them adequately, Human Rights Watch...
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network has issued the following statement which has been adopted by Quakers in Britain. | We urgently call for the ending of indefinite detention, which is fundamentally unjust and causes much suffering to its victims. | As Quakers we believe that there is that of God in everyone.
More from James Slack... | Wont happen,its another of the Limpwits sacred cows. | what can we do ?? we all agree but the posh boys are too scared to stand up . | When is this government going to get some backbone and rid us of this rubbish.
London, May 16 (ANI): Most foreign nationals will not be allowed to appeal against refusal to issue a visa to visit family members, the UK's Home Office has announced. | A clause in the Crime and Courts Bill will be amended by which the foreign nationals will have to re-apply for visas at their own cost, saving British taxpayers from millions of pounds. | According to The BBC, the law is set to come in force by 2014.
Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
Four protesters have been arrested after a demonstration outside a downtown Chicago building that houses a federal immigration court. | Dozens picketed yesterday, one of many protests planned in the days leading up to the NATO summit. The gathering of heads of state begins this weekend. | Two immigrant rights activists were placed in handcuffs after refusing to move away from the building entrance.
Please enter recipient valid email address. | As a result, our demographics look much more diverse -- and "look" is the operative word, since the Supreme Court will be deciding whether local law enforcement has the independent authority to act on the appearance of illegal immigration to make arrests of individuals, with potentially dire consequences for our community.
By Angela Hall, Leader-Post May 16, 2012 Dozens of people rallied outside the legislature on Tuesday to protest changes to the province's immigration rules, saying that the government's decision dashes their dreams of bringing relatives to Saskatchewan...
REGINA €” Dozens of people rallied outside the legislature Tuesday to protest changes to the province€™s immigration rules, saying the government€™s decision dashes dreams of bringing relatives to Saskatchewan. | €œI had a long term plan to settle here in Saskatoon with my family and all of a sudden this change just disappointed me,€ said Pirubhai Garasiya.
A new report confirms what the Mexican government announced one year ago: net immigration from that country to the United States essentially has dropped to zero. The Pew Hispanic Center released a report last week stating that for the first time since the Great Depression, the number of Mexican nationals leaving this country is high enough, and the number of new immigrants low enough, that they cancel each other out, meaning no net increase...
The magazine's decision highlights a certain irony common among young immigrant activists in Arizona: They€™re politically connected -- and effective -- enough to appear in Time, to call congressmen on their personal cellphones, to post profile pictures on Facebook with President Obama one week, Hillary Clinton the next. Yet they cannot participate in the most basic of political activities: They can€™t vote because they're not citizens.
Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Once again he's been pilloried for fumbling a historic Supreme Court case. First shredded for his 'train wreck' defense of Obamacare's individual mandate, he is now blamed for the defenestration in oral argument of Obama's challenge to the Arizona immigration law.
Firefighters were working to prevent a wildfire near the historic mining town of Crown King from spreading to an area where it could quickly grow. | If that happens, a bowl in the terrain could help the blaze move south, a development that would threaten homes and businesses in the town, Benavidez told the Arizona Republic (http:/ / bit.ly/ KlEe03 ). | "There could be a potential for fire behavior that would not allow (firefighters)"
A Basalt woman who was in custody in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora was released unexpectedly Friday evening, (read more)
Non-profit group Consumer Action conducted a nationwide survey spanning 5,000 community-based organizations (CBOs) and discovered that seven out of 10 CBOs reported €œserious€ problems with housing discrimination against immigrants, families with children and the disabled. They further reported that discrimination is increasing and that those being discriminated against do not know it and do not know their rights. Experts say only...
Four people were arrested Tuesday after dozens of activists blocked entrances to a building that houses a federal immigration court -- a small demonstration by Chicago standards, but one that hints at what may come when the NATO summit starts this weekend. | On Tuesday, the activsts called for an end to deportations and spoke against a proposed federal immigrant detention center in the Chicago area, among other things.
She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, she clutched a microphone before a crowd in New York's Union Square. | "My name is Diana," she said. "I am undocumented and unafraid." | With those words last March, another young woman stepped "out of the shadows."
The organization calls for laws to protect the workers, who "see these abuses as an unavoidable condition of agricultural work." | An estimated 630,000 of the 3 million people who perform farm work are female. | The study mirrors two previous reports that focused on California.
Norma Galindo, who was being held in a jail for the undocumented in Aurora, east of Denver, left there at 5:30 pm Friday and was taken immediately by a representative of the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition to her home in Basalt, 193 miles away...
3.15pm: Here's an afternoon summary. | €¢ Lord Justice Leveson has suggested that he will drop plans to take evidence from Jeremy Hunt if MPs insist on interrogating him about his contacts with News Corporation. His statement will be seen as a rebuke to Harriet Harman and other Labour MPs, who said yesterday that Hunt should answer questions on the affair in the Commons, and to John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, who said he agreed.
An active-duty airman stationed at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base is dead after a car accident in Phoenix. | Base officials said Monday that 26-year-old Senior Airman Kenneth M. Lee Jr., of San Antonio, was ejected from the car he was driving on Interstate 10 about 9 p.m. Saturday. | Arizona Department of Public Safety officials say Lee lost control and the car rolled at least once. He was pronounced dead at a Phoenix hospital.
Scrapping appeal rights ''will save millions'' 15 May 2012 Foreign nationals refused a visa for a short visit to see family members in the UK will lose the full right to appeal the decision in the courts, saving tens of millions of pounds and freeing up tribunals to deal with more serious cases, the immigration minister Damian Green has said.In future, the vast majority of failed applicants will have to re-apply, rather...
"Starting on May 15 we are going to denounce every case of the deportation of undocumented immigrants who have no criminal records and denounce the violation of the basic human rights of undocumented immigrants in our state," said Patricia Montes...
But something surprising happened in the Magnolia State. While liberals and immigration rights advocates were pinning futile hopes on the Supreme Court invalidating Arizona's anti-immigrant law, lest other conservative states stampede to pass similar bills, Mississippi conservatives quietly shelved their own version. It now appears that Arizona-type laws are more likely to suffer their demise at the hands of politics rather than judges.
A nationwide caravan opposing the controversial Arizona immigration law now before the U.S. Supreme Court is making at least six stops in the Inland area over the next three days. | The caravan was organized by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and was launched in San Francisco on April 22, three days before the Supreme Court heard arguments on the law, SB 1070.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed legislation Monday that would have had the state join Utah in demanding that the federal government surrender control of millions of acres of public land. | Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed similar states' rights legislation in March despite warnings from legislative attorneys that the law was probably unconstitutional.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney rose in the House of Commons Monday to mark the anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act 65 years ago.
Federal authorities say a Mexican man tried to smuggle more than 7 pounds (3.2 kilograms) of cocaine into Arizona by hiding it in his wheelchair's seat cushion.
Moderates are always the decisive vote in US elections, but they only begin to pay attention to campaigns a few months before the vote. Thus, primary season is an opportunity to revitalize the ideological base of both parties. When primaries are over, the presidential nominees begin a swift and scandal-free journey towards the centre.
The U.S. Supreme Court is now in the midst of deciding the constitutionality of Arizona€™s strict immigration law. President Obama has spent a lot of time and money challenging this law, but he should consider that this law would not exist if it wasn€™t for his own actions.
The lawsuit filed on May 10, 2012 accuses MCSO of racial profiling and numerous instances of "mistreatment of Latinos in the course of traffic enforcement." For example, it alleges that a MCSO officer slammed a pregnant Latino woman into the hood of her car--stomach first--three times and then left her seated in a patrol car without air conditioning for 30 minutes.
Smoke from one of several Arizona wildfires that has shrouded the Phoenix area was expected to be cleared by winds Tuesday as firefighters worked to contain another blaze in the northern part of the state that has forced residents from their homes in a historic mining town. | The fire near Crown King began on private land Sunday and burned about 2 square miles by late Monday, with zero containment.
Barack Obama's story resonates with Latinos because the struggle to overcome obstacles, whether poverty, oppression or bigotry , along with an abiding belief in the transformative power of education, is central to our story. And, for the first time...
Any immigration policy has to walk the fine line between protecting the rights of immigrant workers while helping US employers fill demand. What has resulted thus far is the creation of an underground economy, the flagrant abuse of immigrant labor by some employers and a divided perception as to which immigrant labor is of more value to US society.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill demanding the U.S. government turn over millions of acres of its property to the state, dealing a surprise blow to the "sagebrush revolt" against federal control over vast tracts of land in the West.
A new report confirms what the Mexican government announced one year ago: net immigration from that country to the United States essentially has dropped to zero. | It would be hard to find stronger evidence that the continued alarmist rhetoric heralding continued floods of immigrants flowing across our borders simply isn't true. | The report came out even as the U.S.
Border agents say they found seven pounds of cocaine stuffed into the wheelchair seat of a man trying to cross into Arizona from Mexico over the weekend. Just over 7 pounds of cocaine was found hidden in the cushion of a wheelchair of a man crossing...
Senator Marco Rubio has proposed letting young illegal immigrants stay in the United States legally. This is seen as an alternative to the Democrats€™ DREAM Act, although supporters of the latter welcome the Rubio plan as a way to reinvigorate the agenda of immigration reform. | Romney has so far taken no position. No doubt he fears being accused of defending €œamnesty.
Posted by Wayne Harrison, Web Editor: After following the footprints for several miles, agents encountered four illegal immigrants. One of them was Galvez-Lopez, who's from Chiapas, Mexico. Federal officials said Galvez-Lopez is also known as "El Chato" -- the foot guide, or "coyote." | A records check also revealed Galvez-Lopez had two prior immigration removals, federal officials said.
Federal authorities say a Mexican man tried to smuggle more than 7 pounds of cocaine into Arizona by hiding it in his wheelchair's seat cushion. | U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the 43-year-old was stopped for further inspection at the Nogales port Sunday after an officer noticed something peculiar about the cushion.
Why are extremists so concerned about what people do in the privacy of their own homes? | How in the the world is anyone able to force other people's FREE WILL when the Creator gave us FREE WILL? | Judas Priest... | "In the utmost of caution we are evacuating the building so that the police can conduct a sweep using the bomb-sniffing dogs," that email, sent at 11:58 a.m., read in part.
In April, WMHT's Public Affairs program "New York Now" reported on Yelky Ramos' efforts to pass the New York State DREAM Act. Ramos came to the United States when she was 13-years-old. She was the valedictorian of her high school and is preparing to graduate from Baruch College with a B.A. in public affairs. | The bill was introduced by Senator Bill Perkins (D-Manhattan) and Assemblyman Guillermo Linares (D-Manhattan).
In the House, though, VAWA emerged from the Judiciary Committee last week by a partisan 17-15 vote. The House bill is so controversial that seven Republicans have proposed an alternative that mirrors the Senate version. | Why the controversy? Buerkle notes her bill has similar funding levels as the Senate bill. It covers all forms of domestic abuse, and even enhances federal penalties.
May 15th, 2012 (No Comment) | "We need to take a lesson from the (lesbian and gay) community with regard to being that loud, squeaky wheel that gets fixed," Blase said. "We need to be more aggressive, and we realize it."
PHOENIX (AP) €” The careers of most politicians would crumble under the heavy scrutiny that the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America now faces. | But despite a mountain of legal troubles, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio remains popular with voters and has more than $3.4 million in the bank for his November re-election campaign.
Keywords: €” The federal government's expansion of a program that requires local police to share fingerprints with immigration officials is drawing protests in New York. | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sees the "Secure Communities Program" as a tool for finding and deporting criminal illegal aliens. | Opponents say it actually makes communities less secure by damaging relations between immigrants and police.
Speaking on a UU-UNO panel on race and immigration, journalist Starrene Rhett cautioned youth about consuming media with damaging messages about race. (Courtesy UU-UNO) | Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office. The UUA's official nongovernmental organization at the U.N. (uu-uno.org)
Because freedom can't protect itself. | What do anti-immigrant laws have to do with children and youth? | In my 8-year-old son Cyrus's Spanish immersion program at a Berkeley public school, there are families facing deportation. The teacher taught a class on it and the children wrote letters to President Obama, in Cyrus' words, "to keep families together."
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Amid all the controversy over religious freedom versus contraception along with Catholic Bishop Daniel Jenky's recent comments, we're overlooking the real threat to all Americans. We have a president with little regard for the Constitution of the United States unless it supports his agenda. He has a plan for what America should be and won't allow anything, least of all the Constitution, to get in his way.
PHOENIX (AP) €” As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law. The Justice Department, which had been investigating Arpaio on civil rights allegations for more than three years and faced a similar impasse earlier in the investigation, said it was left with no choice...
Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party, protesting in Thessaloniki, vows to kick out immigrants and place mines on the border with Turkey. | Want to stay ahead of the curve? Sign up for National Journal€™s AM & PM Must Reads. News and analysis to ensure you don€™t miss a thing.
Despite my family's rootedness in Southern California, migration has had an inordinate effect on my life. Now that it has come to a virtual halt, how do I see myself? Angeleno, as always. La Placita church in Los Angeles celebrated...
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked the General Assembly to approve a two-year extension for High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. | Ban's office announced Monday that Pillay, whose four-year term was due to expire at year's end, agreed to stay on for two more years. | Later this month, Pillay is slated to begin the first mission to Zimbabwe by a U.N. human rights chief.
Adele Hampton: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an appeal to Hispanic voters Monday, saying that that Mitt Romney would address "the need for immigration reform" and that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee did not think self-deportation was "the entire answer to the issue." | €œBut he doesn€™t think that€™s the entire answer to the issue,€ McCain added.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will fight €œto the bitter end€ an Obama administration lawsuit and effort to get monitors in his office. Arpaio is fighting the U.S Justice Department€™s assertions his MCSO bullies, harasses and unfairly targets Hispanics in traffic stops, immigration sweeps and at county jails.
Jose Antonio Vargas visited OSU to give a speech for the COMPAS project. He discussed his life as an undocumented immigrant, originally from the Philippines. | Words that would normally be disregarded as generic campaign rhetoric from a politician or speaker stand out coming from the mouth of an undocumented immigrant. | Jose Antonio Vargas ended his keynote address on illegal immigration with those seven words.
The southern half of the Cascades Lakes Highway, from the Deschutes Bridge (N. of Crane Prairie Reservoir) to Hwy 58 (near Crescent) has been cleared of snow and open. Forest Road 40 is open as well. | Tune in to Heart of the Arts Fridays at 7:55 a.m. Kelly Bleyer will introduce you the Central Oregon Symphony. They are having a concert this Saturday and will feature the Young Artist Competition winners.
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A new survey released last week shows that immigrants, the disabled, and families with children aren't welcome some places. Immigrants face the greatest hardships in finding legal recourse for housing discrimination, according to the nationwide community organization survey.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is scheduled to visit with The News-Press editorial board this afternoon. Send your questions to dplazas@ news-press.com or post on The News-Press editorial board’s Facebook page (facebook.com/ npeditorialboard). | Attrition through enforcement is the underlying strategy of Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070. | Supporters say it forces undocumented immigrants to make the “rational” decision to self-deport.
Beyond the public attention, the Romney campaign has been engaged in the MEK issue well before his professed ignorance in December. Romney may not have been aware of it, but Reiss€™s advocacy for the MEK was used by neoconservatives in the Romney camp to marginalize Reiss.
On the line with us is our correspondent Kevin Tripp live from LA. | Obviously Sheriff Arpaio is very controversial, not just for your story about targeting Latinos in that area, lawfully targeting them, but also he is also a birther expert, right? | It's kind of interesting. This came up a few months ago.
LONDON, May 14 (Bernama) -- Amidst a tougher immigration regime under the David Cameron government, dwindling job opportunities and double-dip recession, many Indian citizens who entered Britain illegally to chase the London dreams are returning home...
A total of five wildfires in the state had charred more than 9 square miles by late Sunday, the Arizona Republic reported (http:/ / bit.ly/ JQecly ). The fires follow a recent warning from state land managers that hot May temperatures and dry vegetation have created a very high fire risk in some areas. | Billowing smoke from that fire and another to the west near Crown King could be seen in Phoenix.
SEATTLE — First, it was thought the full activation of the federal immigrant jail check program was up to the states. Then in Washington state, maybe it was a county decision.