Yesterday, in Phoenix, AZ, undocumented youth and allies with the DRM Capitol Group, the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition and others delivered approximately 8,000 petitions to the Arizona Republican Party headquarters, urging Republican candidates to stop opposing the DREAM Act and to change their rhetoric on immigration. Continue »
We've compared Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the hottest girl at the prom, but at the moment he's sounding like the dumped boyfriend who never quite realized that his girl doesn't love him. Continue »
If there was still any doubt about Mitt Romney's position on immigration, it was erased last Thursday during the CNN Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Arizona. The former Michigan governor referred to Arizona's controversial HB1070 law as "a model" for the nation. Continue »
For years, Nora Castaneda watched her Mormon community grow and grow as it drew converts from a burgeoning Hispanic population in Mesa, Arizona. Then, in 2010, it all went into slow motion. Continue »
Mr. Manuel Ramírez Chávez was born in Michoacán, Mexico, but arrived in the United States when he was eight years old. Fifty-six years later, at the age of 64, he's finally becoming a citizen. He didn't do it earlier, he said, "because I'd never seen as much discrimination as... Continue »
Jan Brewer is one very busy governor. The Arizona Governor has been in town for the National Governors' Association 2012 Winter Meeting, with a schedule so booked up that she's had to decline invitations left and right. Continue »
As he deals with fallout from a scandal involving a campaign volunteer who turned out to be his secret boyfriend, conservative Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu has insisted time and again that whatever work the man did for his campaign was strictly unpaid. Continue »
In order to win over the most conservative, extremist voters in the Arizona Republican primary (which will be held Tuesday, February 28th), presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the state's immigration policy a "model" for others to follow. Continue »
Remember Wednesday night's GOP debate in Mesa, Arizona, where the Republican candidates proclaimed that Arizona and its extremist SB 1070 anti-immigrant law was a model for the country? Continue »
In terms of the impact it could have in November, the most important moment of last night's debate may have come when Mitt Romney hailed the Arizona immigration law as a "model" for the nation while Sheriff Joe Arpaio beamed approvingly. Continue »