This is a phenomenal video of the immigrant rights community in southern Arizona & their battle last summer against Governor Jan Brewer's draconian legislation regime....

Another report from police chiefs denigrating the ACCESS programs' inevitable results of destroying all the trust which they have spent years building with the immigrant community & driving that population underground into a world of fourth-class citizenship!

Last week, legislators in Tennessee introduced a radical bill that would make "material support" for Islamic law punishable by 15 years in prison. The proposal marks a dramatic new step in the conservative campaign against Muslim-Americans.

A state senator escaped being arrested for an alleged domestic violence dispute because of an obscure piece of law granting him 'legislative immunity', police said today.

There can be no clearer sign that the GOP/TP wish to kill poor people to save a buck than SB1519 in Arizona.

It's comforting to know that at least some Republicans are standing up to the newly-established orthodoxy, as Daniels here shows by calling for a "truce" in the culture wars so that government can deal with the financial crises we are all facing....

An overview of the trial of Shawna Forde in Tucson tells us little we don't already know.... I kept missing the fact that she was a beautician....

The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

Rick Scott says that he's going to focus on jobs, education, and the rule of law; but Gary Borders is running Lake County like his own personal mafia! And the governor is instead involved in promoting an Arizona SB1070-copycat bill - I guess that's his definition of rule of law!

At least now we know that the right-wing extremism isn't just reserved for violating the civil rights of immigrants: LGBT & DV victims are now(?) included in the list of victims of the state's culture wars.... Or as a native has put it on the comments page:

"This divisive legislation is appalling and shameful," said Jennifer Allen, executive director of Border Action Network's in a press release.

A genius piece of journalism on "the other Arizona" explores the state that time forgot, the liberal intelligentsia oft overlooked by the MSM: it starts with a story of how a (most likely Muslim) African scout led the first (Spanish) settlers to the gates of the Salt River & ends …

At least the British press is covering the trial of Shawna Forde for this outrageous murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores & her father by the renegade Minutemen operative.

A brilliant academic piece which shows that not only will rescinding birthright citizenship create a massive new bureaucracy at a time when we need to streamline but it would deprive us of the crucial resource of young people who are paying taxes, fulfilling civil & military serv …

The Center for American Progress' latest study outlines the local measures, the legal battles, & the costs of the growing backlash against Hispanic immigrants, one "driven by fear, economic uncertainty, and cultural differences" in certain small towns of New Jersey, Nebraska, Pen …

A rundown on the follow-ups to the Mississippi move this week....

Here come the states!

"Count to ten; & take a deep breath!"

A second time around, this expose on the culture of corruption & secrecy that allows Border Patrol officials literally get away with murder was even more rewarding & meaningful: it is an absolute must-read, regardless of your political persuasion.

It does us well to reflect on the stories of our victims....

Another brilliant piece on the rising anti-immigrant states-rights extremists being accepted into the mainstream discourse of American politics just as they are being elected into the mainstream offices of American jurisprudence (however unprudently) leaves me wondering if the Ut …

Not only does the South Carolina Farm Bureau acknowledge that we lack an adequate supply of laborers, but they are promoting the idea of actually solving the problem instead of further inflaming the passions around it for political gain!

Let's hope that noone protests at the funerals!

It takes a pretty sick mind to come up with the many things that Limbaugh has been spewing over the years, but this one could be his "David" moment....

The 2012 general election ballot shall carry the question of whether to amend Article VI, Section 1, of the Arizona Constitution to state that in making judicial decisions, Arizona courts must not look to legal precepts of other nations or cultures and must not consider internati …

Apparently, House Republicans are not reading the same briefs on the topic as we are....

In the years leading up to the deaths in Tucson, Arizona distinguished itself as the second-worst state in the US for criminalizing mental illness and providing needed hospital beds.

Unencumbered by any moral imperative to be truthful, some anti-immigration activists and politicians have no qualms about demonizing immigrants with half-truths and outright lies.

An indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine.

Armed and extremely... patriotic. Why a growing number of Americans are preparing for a war against their government. ...The militias, which are dotted throughout the US and, according to recent figures, are growing rapidly in numbers, claim they are bulwarks against tyranny.

The charge that Arizona had to pass an anti-immigration bill because the federal government isn't enforcing the border proves patently ridiculous once you go down there and take a look.

"Palestinian Authority terrorists over the weekend attacked workers building an underground "Iron Curtain" between Egypt and Gaza as Cairo tightens security at the border in an effort to end the weapons and drug smuggling into Gaza.

PHOENIX, AZ - July 30 - Roxana Orell, a lawyer and executive officer with the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), was arrested Thursday in Phoenix while acting as an NLG Legal Observer® for a group of individuals protesting the immigration policies of Sheriff Arpaio.

The controversial immigration law may have been sidelined by a judge, but the state's epidemic of bodies piling up in the desert is just beginning.

The most reactionary conservatives, many of them clutching unread copies of U.S.

A federal judge has halted the most controversial elements of Arizona's new immigration law, which had been scheduled to take effect at midnight.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown.

A resolution passed by the tribal council on June 4 states that the new law would lead to disproportionate stops and detentions for tribal members, violate their sovereignty and negatively impact the tribal economy.

A family are celebrating after discovering the daughter they were told had died in a car crash is alive after a hospital mix-up. However, the news meant heartache for the parents of the girl's best friend - as it emerged it was their daughter who died in the accident.

PHOENIX — The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday.

Militias with neo-Nazi ties have taken up arms and are patrolling the border in search of "narco-terrorists" and illegal immigrants.

This morning, the white supremacist political party American Third Position (A3P) proudly announced its donation to the fund recently established by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to defend that state's controversial new immigration law.

In a 2006 study, Texas earned more in taxes than it spent on public services to illegal immigrants. State and local governments spent $1.16 billion to provide services, but raised an estimated $1.58 billion in tax revenues.

The more the press examines the premise behind Arizona's SB 1070 law, the more it looks to be one of those "emperor-has-no-clothes" stories.

PHOENIX — For nearly 30 years, the governors of the states that line both sides of the United States-Mexico border have gathered to celebrate border bonhomie.

There is compelling new evidence that Republicans will rue the day that they allowed their virulent anti-immigrant wing to grab the controls of the Republican Party.

What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one.

Yesterday, the New York State Assembly passed a resolution condemning the recently passed Arizona SB 1070 law that will unfairly impact many Latinos in the state. Also yesterday approximately 50 people were arrested protesting the Arizona law.

May 29, Forth Snelling, Minnesota. Minnesotans of many ethnicities gathered to support the Arizona Boycott in protest of new immigration law (SB1070) and to prevent introduction of similar laws there. The rally was combined with a Native American rally to take down Fort Snelling.

The county would avoid new contracts with Arizona firms or the state of Arizona and possibly discontinue any current contracts with firms in that state, under a resolution unanimously approved by the board's finance committee.

Arizona's new law on illegal immigration could violate international standards that are binding in the United States, six U.N. human rights experts said Tuesday. The basic human rights regulations, signed by the U.S.

However, law enforcement is formally tasked with enforcing the laws that legislators sign. Consequently, if the law of the land is racist, it becomes the job of law enforcement to enforce racism.

The NAACP in coalition with other civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today challenging Arizona's new law requiring police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S.

FOX hosts have shown time and again an uneasiness with the proximity Arizona has with the nation of Mexico.

A new survey shows that 63% of LGBT Americans, a clear majority of those polled, oppose the strict new immigration law set to take effect in Arizona next month. In contrast, the poll found that about 60% of straight adults support the law

June 9, 2010 -- Just last week, the notorious Governor Brewer promoter of the draconian anti- American law SB 1070, which in essence throws the entire civil rights movement into the proverbial garbage was caught claiming that her father had "died fighting the Nazi regime in Ger …

I have been reading a lot of stories lately about cities and towns in the state of Arizona being "ghost" towns and cities. There has been a lot of Hispanics that have left the state leaving schools, business and rental proprieties with a lot of opening.

This morning, on Fox & Friends, anchor Steve Doocy interviewed Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on immigration.

"Rather than making Arizona more secure, we believe this law will have the opposite effect," Miriam Weisman, ADL Arizona's regional chair, and Bill Straus, ADL Arizona's regional director, said in a statement Tuesday.

Pima County's top lawman says he has no intention of enforcing Arizona's controversial crackdown on illegal immigration. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik calls SB 1070 "racist," "disgusting," and "unnecessary."

Things may get more frightening for Figueroa and kids like her very soon. Insiders on both sides of the immigration debate say there's a fierce new battle looming over a well-organized and growing movement to deprive children, like Katherine, born on American soil, of their U.S.

Five Arizona women painted a picture of abuse, terror, and civil rights violations during a special hearing Thursday before Congress about the impact of a state law that would make it a crime to be undocumented.

In this modern age of lobbyists and the cattle-consumer mentality, we often find ourselves struggling to voice our concerns over how our world is managed. There are few tools with which we can wage war against corporate culture; we can vote, we can protest, and we can boycott.

City councilman Steven Blair (R-AZ) stirred controversy by using his radio show on KYCA talk radio to denounce a mural on the side of Miller Valley Elementary School in Prescott, AZ for "depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural." After his rant, angry callers pressur …

This week, rumors circulated that the Obama Administration may file a legal challenge to Arizona's infamous immigration law. Although suits have already been filed by the capable lawyers at the ACLU, MALDEF, and other civil rights organizations, it is essential for the U.S.

Last week, following Mexican President Felipe Calderon's speech before Congress, many conservatives blasted Calderon for slamming Arizona's new immigration law and "meddling" in U.S. politics. "It's about us. It's about our citizenry," said Sen.

Drop houses: Homes that sit empty that were foreclosed, or..............

The lawsuit offers a compelling look at the egregiousness of the law, the variety of constitutional rights at stake, and the diverse group of individuals and organizations who will be adversely affected if the law goes into effect Like challenges to other state and local laws fi …

The San Antonio News reports that a Jefferson High School English teacher has been "removed from the classroom" for singling out a Latino student wearing a Mexican soccer jersey and publicly insulting him.

The United States has always been enhanced and challenged by immigration. America's democratic ideals have kept the gates open to those seeking a freer, and more prosperous, life.

The City of Phoenix -- a convention hot-spot -- is facing a "near economic crisis" caused by lost revenue stemming from organizations canceling events in response to Arizona's controversial immigration law, according to its mayor.

ess than a month after Arizona's so-called "Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" made racial profiling the law of the land, Governor Jan Brewer signed a new law this week that targets Latinos and other minorities, not on the streets but in the classroom.

Racial profiling is stupid. I'm not just saying that because I'm a member of a race that's often profiled. It's stupid because it rarely ever works and often does more harm than good. Studies from the Department of Justice and U.S.

While Arizona has sparked the latest national furor over immigration policy, and Western Republican pols are dancing around the issue like it's a bonfire (which, politically, it is), some of the most impressive and immediate repercussions have been in the Deep South, where cons …

When Arizona passed a law that handed local police unprecedented authority to investigate and arrest suspected illegal immigrants, the state ignited a firestorm in a midterm election year.

The new anti-immigrant Arizona law allows law enforcement officials to engage in a dragnet against people suspected of looking like undocumented immigrants. The law had to be amended because its original version was almost certainly unconstitutional.

It's been less than two weeks since Arizona's governor signed the harshest immigration law in the nation, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he's ready to jail as many "illegals" as his deputies round up.

Yesterday, Arizona lawmakers made a handful of changes to the immigration bill Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) recently signed into effect that appear to be in response to many of the criticisms aimed at the bill.

It seems as though nearly every person I debate (or argue with) in regards to Arizona's immigration law is under the bizarre impression that by protesting the law's passage, I'm somehow trying to defend the rights of illegal immigrants.

Arizona's supporters of the state's draconian new immigration law insist that it has nothing to do with race and isn't meant to discriminate against certain ethnic communities.

in the early 1970s, Cox was tasked with authoring the Los Angeles Police Department's new policy manual. He and his colleagues weighed whether this sort of collaboration between police and immigration officials made sense.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazi Germany.

"This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.

Is it just me, or has the Tea Party remained noticeably silent on the subject of the recent Immigration law in Arizona? Where are the protests? Where are the signs referencing freedoms and individual liberties? Where are the Colonial outfits with tea bags swaying in the breez …

In 2003, before becoming Governor of Arizona, then-Secretary of State Jan Brewer declared Arizona to be a "Golden Rule State." This teaching, common to most of the world's religious faiths, ("do unto others, as you would have them do unto you") was, as a result, imprinted on spec …

Minutes after signing the nation's toughest illegal immigration law, Arizona governor Jan Brewer was asked about her confidence in its ability to withstand a legal challenge.

PHOENIX – A Valley man says he was pulled over Wednesday morning and questioned when he arrived at a weigh station for his commercial vehicle along Val Vista and the 202 freeway.

Cheered on by the Republican Party's most recent presidential nominee, the no-longer-maverick Senator John McCain, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed anti-immigrant legislation so crude in its construction that even conservative commentators say it will do damage to Ari …

Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony lambasted legislation passed Monday by Arizona lawmakers that would crack down on illegal immigrants, likening it to "German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques" that compelled people to turn each other in.

"The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law," he wrote on his blog. "The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense."