The Arizona state legislature this week declined to increase funds for the developmentally disabled, declined to grant 100,000 poor children greater access to health care, and declined to fund much-needed highway and education projects—but it did consider reimbursing recalled state senator Russell Pearce for $216,000 for costs incurred during...
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At Daily Caller, which has established itself as a mouthpiece for the right-wing, the notoriously extremist Ann Coulter offers a particularly vicious rant against anyone who has ever supported immigration reform. This is her proposed solution: I myself would like to deport the people responsible for our current immigration...
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It was brutal, violent end to the life of one of Arizona’s most notorious anti-immigrant leaders, J.T. Ready — and he killed four people along with himself. From the Arizona Republic: For several years, Arizona vigilante J.T. Ready conducted armed, civilian patrols along the U.S. border, urging the use...
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It’s certainly been an intense week for immigration advocates and activists. There’s been an enormous amount of attention to the issue in the traditional media. On Wednesday night, Rachel Maddow took an in-depth look at the politics of immigration reform, SB 1070, Mitt Romney, and the hard-core anti-immigrant work...
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Apr 26, 2012
“If there’s one thing that we can all agree on, it’s that half of us will not agree on even that,” starts off Stephen Colbert on his popular late-night TV show’s segment, The Word, wittily entitled “United, We Can’t Stand Them.” Rumor has it that immigrants are pyromaniacal, highly-contagious,...
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Apr 24, 2012
