La Opinión has a withering editorial today about Secure Communities (a.k.a. S-Comm). It’s a brutal takedown of a failed program: Because of its inability to act in a consistent manner, the Secure Communities program has set an example of incompetence in the federal bureaucracy. Through confusion and a lack of...
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Russell Pearce—former Arizona state senator, sponsor of arch-anti-immigrant bill SB 1070—defeated last fall in a historic recall election. Paul Babeu—hardline anti-immigrant sheriff of Pinal County, famous for the “complete the danged fence” ad he shot with John McCain—tarred this year for certain…indiscretions, and now on the defensive with both...
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A number of great articles today about how the Latino vote will impact the general election in November this year. Time tries to handicap just how influential the Latino vote will be: In national elections since the early 1990s, Republicans have had a floor of about 20% among Latinos,...
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The Republican Party’s hard right approach to immigration policy is often sharply contrasted with that of Democratic officeholders and candidates, but sometimes the current GOP extremism is called out by more moderate members of the same party. Two Republican luminaries this week highlight the fact that today’s nativist GOP...
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The immigrant-bashers in Arizona just can’t help themselves. Despite all the negative fallout from S.B. 1070, including the recall of the bill’s sponsor, State Senator Russell Pearce, the immigrant-bashers just can’t stop. The latest flareup comes from a GOP Senate candidate, Wil Cardon, who has launched a negative ad...
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Colorado is one step closer to passing a bill that would discount tuition for undocumented students seeking to attend college in the state, reports the Denver Post. The measure passed the state Senate yesterday by a 20 Democrat – 14 Republican party-line vote, and now moves onto the state...
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Word on the street is that the proposed revision for Alabama’s anti-immigrant law HB 56 is still a load of Juan Crow. Faith, legal, and advocacy leaders said as much on a press call today, offering up a scathing critique of the new HB 658 and saying that it...
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Breaking news from Phoenix: Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his onetime deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, were stripped of their law licenses today as a disciplinary panel handed down the toughest sanctions possible for ethical violations in a case that attracted national interest. The panel also suspended Rachel Alexander,...
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As the recent FOX News Latino poll showed, Republicans are in serious trouble with Latinos. Serious trouble — as in losing to Obama by a six-to-one-margin trouble. And they’re looking for ways to dig themselves out of that ditch. So, it caught our attention when we learned that a...
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The Kansas City Star today has an in-depth article on Kris Kobach, the sometimes-Kansas Secretary of State who is so passionately anti-immigrant that he works overtime in service of it. Kobach is Kansas Secretary of the State by day, a job which the Star notes “should be one of the...
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