The number of legal visitors entering Arizona from Mexico has plummeted amid the controversy of increased enforcement of state immigration laws.

Charts and links debunking the propaganda being spewed from Arizona, about the illegal immigration from south of the border.

Sheriff Antonio Estrada works on the Mexican border, in Arizona's Santa Cruz County.

Jan Brewer has lost her head.

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.

YUMA, Ariz. -- Authorities say a bullet apparently was fired into an office of a Democratic congressman who has been an outspoken opponent of the state's immigration law.

The federal judge who ruled on Arizona's tragic, noxious new immigration law on Wednesday did not stop all of it from taking effect Thursday, but she preliminarily halted the worst of it.

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.

Bigotry may not be the only motive behind Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's rabidly xenophobic new immigration law. Another factor may be that timeless Republican standard: greed.

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.

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.

Arizona law SB 1070, with amendment HB 2162, does explicitly state that it will not allow for racial discrimination or racial profiling. However, HB 2162 only makes SB 1070 appear less racist...not become less racist.

Arizona's controversial SB 1070 attempts to make immigration policy that differs from federal law. Precedent suggests it will be shot down.

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.

The problem with Arizona's immigration law isn't that it would catch illegals. That alone would be a good thing. And it's not that the law is intended to be racist. The literal wording is race-neutral. The problem is in its application.

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.

Yeah...let's get rid of all of the illegal immigrants. I mean, why stop with the Mexicans?

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."

Back when Arizona passed it's "Papers Please" anti-illegal-immigrant law a lot of writers, myself included, were fairly judgmental of the whole thing. We saw it - and indeed still see it - as a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize being brown in the great state of Arizona.

For more than a month now, the debate has raged over how Arizona's new immigration law could directly impact illegal immigrants and minorities concerned about racial profiling. But when Senate Bill 1070 goes into effect July 29, it will touch the lives of all Arizonans...

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.

...the law was introduced to the Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, who authored an official email to his support and donor base in which he made the conspiratorial claim that journalists pushed the view of:

Last month, when a classic Washington photo-op—the First Lady surrounded by school children—turned into a tense encounter between the White House matriarch and the daughter of an undocumented immigrant, the media's lens focused for an instant on the human face of the immigr …

The dramatic developments these past two months in Arizona – along with an international boycott of Arizona – reveal that resistance has entered a new phase.

In response to that "other" Arizona Immigration Billboard...

Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try.

President Barack Obama's planned meeting Thursday with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer faces a protest from opponents of Arizona's new immigration law.

The Kansas City Council has joined other cities across the country in calling for the state of Arizona to repeal its law directing local law enforcement to investigate a suspicious person's immigration status.

The school board resolution says the Arizona law "effectively sanctions and promotes unconstitutional racial profiling and harassment, and blatantly violates the civil rights of both Arizona residents and all visitors to the state."

If only this were true. I think that all Democratic people in the state of Arizona, need to exercise their duty and start citizen arresting random Caucasians if they cannot produce their papers identifying them as American citizens.

The latest survey of Hispanic attitudes showing them flocking to Democrats in droves:

The Arizona Republic reported on Sunday that there has not been a single murder in the border town of Nogales, Arizona, for two years! FBI statistics show that crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma, and other Arizona border communities have remained flat for the past decade.

In Conservative ideology that primal scene is a fear of loss. The Right-Wing American Fantasy is the Founding Fathers cleared a Land of Oppurtunity from sea to shining sea and built a City on a Hill. We inherited the keys to the kingdom but the natives are on the warpath.

In 1994, when many Republicans in California and elsewhere were celebrating Mr.

His legal and his not so legal life came crashing down in 2002 and with bail set at $750,000 his new residence became the infamous Maricopa County Jail.

Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County, is arguably the most interesting, cruel and controversial name in law enforcement. Sheriff Arpaio seems to treat the Maricopa County Jail as his own personal sideshow and publicity stunt.

In Nogales, Arizona, a town near the border between Arizona and Mexico, a man named Eduardo Vega stops at a gas station to fill his car during his daily commute to Phoenix. An Arizona police officer, also a Mexican-American, approaches Vega to ask him to see his papers.

On numerous occasions I've seen a figure being bantered about as the cost of government benefits for for illegal immigrants. It's in the neighborhood of 32 billion dollars per year. That number has no basis in fact.

"This idea that White folks give voice to every now and then that they're losing their country, sometimes they mean with Black folks and the Black president and sometimes they're referring to Latinos and Brown folks.

Congressman Steve Montenegro, R-Ariz., said during the televised debate that the Arizona law mirrors federal immigration law. According to Medina, that claim is"absolutely false."

It expands the authority of law enforcement to make warrantless arrests and gives officers carte blanche to engage in racial profiling, where characteristics like language fluency, accent, style of dress, and the company that someone keeps are major factors in how the police dec …

LOS ANGELES -- Regardless of political party, ideology, whether they are newly arrived immigrants or fourth generation Arizonans, Latino voters in Arizona are opposed to SB 1070 and believe there will be racial bias in the implementation of the law, La Opinión reports.

But Piece may not even have the juice to turn off the power. Some Southern California utilities have ownerships stakes in plants in Arizona, reports the Arizona Republic:

PHOENIX – As calls spread for an economic boycott of Arizona, the state's governor enlisted the help of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday to defend a new law cracking down on illegal immigration.

Arizona never lets me down. Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that “prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward certain ethnic groups.* “

I am appalled at the blatant racism in the actions of legislators and people in power.

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.

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.

The failure to adequately define "reasonable suspicion" also subjects the law to what might be called the "Papers, please" line of attack. Under the Fourth Amendment, police officers can't simply stop people on the street and force them to answer questions.

Hispanic students fill nearly half the seats in Arizona's public school classrooms, but a new law signed by Governor Jan Brewer Tuesday makes it illegal for these students to learn about their heritage in school.

Since Arizona enacted a set of draconian immigration laws which many claim will "exacerbate racial-profiling," much of the focus has been on the effect its implementation will have on the state's Latino population.

A concerned Arizona citizen has a helpful message for police trying to deal with the state's controversial new law giving police sweeping powers to detain anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.

There is no doubt in the minds of the Hispanic community and a variety of other legal immigrant groups that this is racial profiling, and there are constitutional amendments and a host of other laws to back up that assertion.

When in the history of the United States has an American had to carry and show an ID to walk on the street or ride across state borders? This has never happened except to the Japanese-Americans during World War II and this was proven wrong.

Just to make myself clear, since some people don't get the point, I'm not for illegal immigration.

El Paso, Texas, is listed among the safest towns in America.

"There's a significant body of estimations, of literature out there, that shows there's a 'net plus' to having undocumented immigrants," says James Gerber, Ph.D. professor of economics and director of the international business program at San Diego State University.

Obama supports a system that allows undocumented immigrants in good standing to pay a fine, learn English and become citizens. He also backs tightening border security and clamping down on employers that hire undocumented workers.

Governor Jan Brewer's decision to sign Arizona SB1070 will damage our economy and the social fabric of the state. By codifying racial discrimination, this law makes Arizona the laughing stock of the nation and a pariah on the international stage.

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Some southern Arizona hotel owners and operators are concerned their businesses will be harmed financially if tourists and others decide to boycott the state because of the state's immigration enforcement law.

SAN DIEGO -- Two municipal bodies in California have taken action against Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigration, and a third is expected to.

Americans believe that undocumented immigrants are exploiting the United States' economy. The widespread belief is that illegal aliens cost more in government services than they contribute to the economy. This belief is undeniably false.

Myth #1: Undocumented immigrants come to the United States to get welfare.

In contrast to the typical image of an illegal immigrant — paid in cash, working under the table for small-scale labor contractors on a California farm or a suburban construction site — a majority now work for mainstream companies, not fly-by-night operators, and are hired an …

Using data from the Census Bureau's current population survey, Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, an advocacy group in Washington that favors more limits on immigration, estimated that 3.8 million households headed by illegal immigrants g …

Ford, of Middle Tennessee State University, said a majority of economists agree that illegal immigrants are a net benefit for the U.S. economy.

One fine day in Arizona, Jose is riding on a public bus with two other passengers: Carlos and Felipe. Jose, like his parents, is a naturally born US Citizen. Felipe and Carlos are not; they immigrated here illegally.

Assistant Police Chief Roy Bermudez shakes his head and smiles when he hears politicians and pundits declaring that Mexican cartel violence is overrunning his Arizona border town.

Since I have seeded a few stories about the new immigration law in Arizona, such as "Arizona, Equal Rights Unless You're Hispanic?", I have been surprised and appalled at some of the comments I have read throughout Newsvine.

The law, which proponents and critics alike said was the broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1108 into law Friday afternoon. It eliminates the requirement for a concealed-carry weapons permit. Don't you think this is going too far?

Black lawmakers are comparing Arizona's tough immigration law to Jim Crow laws and apartheid South Africa.

A Colorado Democrat says Arizona is on its way to becoming a "police state" and its new immigration law is "reminiscent" of Nazi Germany.

A sad day. The only positive thing to come out of it may be people turning against the Republicans in the next election.

A website, arizona-boycott.org, carries a list of companies headquartered in Arizona that the website is urging people to boycott.

Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the law, looked flustered when asked during a news conference the obvious question of how illegal immigrants might be identified. "I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like," Brewer replied.

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a Republican, isn't sure if the proposal is even legal, since state-level requirements for a federal office are inherently suspect.

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.