Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left to go, Organizers are in a race against the clock to minimize the bill's impact on immigrant communities. Meanwhile, legal experts are examining the strategy behind a federal Department of...
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Today a federal judge in Phoenix, AZ will begin to hear arguments from both sides in one of the lawsuits against SB 1070 -- but the damage from the law is already being done, as a list in Utah that claims to name 13,000 undocumented immigrants continues to terrorize...
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The implications of the new chart?
The first is that, by and large, crime is down across the board. In Arizona as a whole, it has dropped 12 percent in the past seven years. But in major Maricopa County cities with their own police forces -- Phoenix, Mesa, Scottsdale and...
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Jul 14, 2010
14/07/10 a 5:00pm por Columnista Invitado Por Rafael Prieto Zartha Noventa minutos de duración, igual a un partido de fútbol, es el tiempo en que se extiende el video de instrucción sobre la ley SB 1070 que produjo la Junta de Estándares y Entrenamiento de Oficiales de Paz de...
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14/07/10 a 1:51pm por Maribel Hastings Atmósfera antiinmigrante podría movilizar voto hispano en noviembre Por Maribel Hastings – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Un nuevo análisis de opinión demuestra que la atmósfera negativa generada por la ley SB1070 de Arizona, sumada a otros factores, ha hecho que el tema de la...
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Yesterday's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Anaheim, California, was met with protests asking that the 2011 game be moved out of Phoenix due to Arizona's passage of SB 1070 -- but the game is staying put for now. Meanwhile, a list sent to officials in Utah that claims...
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Conservative religious leaders from across the country and across the religious spectrum have united in a cohesive effort to push for a just and compassionate solution to our broken immigration system. A handful of these leaders went to Congress today to make their case for comprehensive immigration reform at...
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Tomorrow, the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law of the House Judiciary Committee will hear expert testimony from conservative religious leaders about the moral urgency of comprehensive immigration reform. These powerful spokespeople are adding their voices to scores of religious organizations who have been...
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Jul 13, 2010
13/07/10 a 2:58pm por Maribel Hastings Por Maribel Hastings – WASHINGTON, D.C. – ¿Qué tiene que ver la SB1070 con las lechugas de Yuma, Arizona? A simple vista parece que no mucho. Pero cuando comience la pizca de lechuga y de otros vegetales y frutas en Yuma de noviembre...
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As Major League Baseball celebrates its All-Star game tonight in Anaheim, CA, a number of players are speaking out in opposition to Arizona's anti-Latino SB1070 law. Some are even promising to boycott next year's All-Star Game, scheduled to be held in Phoenix, AZ, if it is not moved...
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