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VideoDeprofiler.com Ends Racial Profiling, with Printable White-Person Masks
by Channing Kennedy on May 4 2010, 2:02PM
Being brown in Arizona has been tough, at least since the arrival of people relatively less brown. And now, recent Arizona legislation like SB 1070 has moved to make it illegal to be Latino, to look Latino, to sound Latino…
Topics: Immigration
The Far-Right Movement Behind Arizona Copycat Bills
by Seth Freed Wessler on May 4 2010, 12:00PM
State lawmakers pushing a new crop of immigration-enforcement bills are overwhelmingly affiliated with a network tied to eugenics and anti-Latino fear-mongering.
Topics: Immigration
Scenes from May Day Rallies Across U.S. [Video/Photos]
by Hatty Lee on May 3 2010, 1:08PM
On Saturday, people came out in mass to support immigrant rights. The nationwide May Day rallies drew tens of thousands of protesters—the largest turnouts since 2006, when anger over the Sensenbrenner Bill brought out more than 1 million protesters…
Topics: Immigration
SB 1070’s Impact on Kids: Broken Families and America’s Soul
by Michelle Chen on May 3 2010, 9:01AM
Children are the hidden casualties of America’s war on immigrants, and the passage of Arizona’s new racial profiling legislation could open up countless opportunities for local law enforcement to break up families by putting undocumented parents on the fast-track to…
Topics: Immigration
Sheriff Arpaio To Announce He’s Running For Governor On Monday
by Julianne Hing on April 30 2010, 9:16PM
ABC15.com reports: Several sources confirm to the ABC15 Investigators that Arpaio has already made a decision, and will likely run for the office. In a news conference after this story was first published, the Sheriff said he was still…
Topics: Immigration
AZ Tweaks SB 1070, Now Minimally Less Racist, Still Just As Dangerous
by Julianne Hing on April 30 2010, 7:48PM
The authors of SB 1070 have updated the bill’s language with a couple tiny tweaks that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law this afternoon. Yesterday, three lawsuits were filed against SB 1070, charging that it is an unconstitutional law…
Topics: Immigration
Shopping for Guns to Enforce SB1070
by Jorge Rivas on April 29 2010, 3:24PM
Participants check out assault rifles on display at the Border Security Expo on April 28, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona.(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Last Thursday, one day before Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB1070 into law, she held a…
Topics: Immigration
by Daisy Hernandez on April 29 2010, 12:00PM
In a New York Times op-ed Kris Kobach says we’re wrong on Arizona. He’s got it half right.
Topics: Immigration, Immigration
The Lawsuits Are Here: ACLU, MALDEF, NILC Challenge Arizona
by Julianne Hing on April 29 2010, 11:42AM
Immigrant and civil rights groups are set to announce in Phoenix today that they are ready to take on SB 1070, Arizona’s new law that demands that law enforcement officers pull over and question anyone they believe may be in…
Topics: Immigration
by Daisy Hernandez on April 28 2010, 3:36PM
It’s one thing to tweet “boycott arizona” and another to make it happen. For those of you who want to make it happen: Don’t book a flight on U.S. Airways, get a domain name through Go Daddy or rent a U-Haul truck.
Topics: Immigration, Immigration
Rachel Maddow Exposes Racist Origins of SB1070
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 28 2010, 10:00AM
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow spent a rich six minutes this week unpacking the racist roots of SB1070, Arizona’s obviously racist immigration bill. The bill, she reports, was drafted by an…
Topics: Immigration
Defeating SB 1070 In Court: The Next Steps
by Julianne Hing on April 27 2010, 4:49PM
Legal challenges to Arizona’s SB 1070 are coming from all sides. Both the ACLU and MALDEF are planning legal action against Arizona’s SB 1070, the law that makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in the state and…
Topics: Immigration
BREAKING: Pima County Sheriff Refuses to Cooperate with SB1070
by Julianne Hing on April 27 2010, 4:02PM
UPDATE: Contact info for Sheriff Dupnik’s department can be found at http://pimasheriff.org/contacts. Tucson, Arizona’s KGUN9 is reporting that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik ain’t gonna enforce SB 1070 in his town. He called it “a racist law” and will not…
Topics: Immigration
Dim and Dimmer Chances of an Immigration Reform Bill
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 27 2010, 1:55PM
Washington’s game of immigration-reform dodgeball got particularly intense this week after Arizona passed its racial police state bill. Many looked east to DC, hoping that the Grand Canyon State’s new law would push lawmakers to move on immigration reform. But…
Topics: Immigration
Don’t Call Me Racist, and Other Arizona Lies
by Daisy Hernandez on April 27 2010, 12:00PM
What the state’s new immigration law teaches us about the dissembling language of bias in the 21st century.
Topics: Immigration, Immigration, Media
Scenes from Arizona’s SB1070 Protests
by Jorge Rivas on April 26 2010, 2:12PM
Thousands of people gathered outside Arizona’s Capitol building on Sunday to protest against AZ Senate Bill 1070.
Topics: Immigration
Civil Rights Groups Ask: Is Arizona’s SB1070 Even Legal?
by Julianne Hing on April 23 2010, 8:50PM
In the days leading up to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s decision today to sign SB1070 into law, many spoke with confidence that if passed the bill would be found unconstitutional. “Lawsuits are going to be filed immediately,” Isabel Garcia, co-chair…
Topics: Immigration
Friday Twitterbreak: Arizona Goddam, aka #SB1070 Edition
by Channing Kennedy on April 23 2010, 5:46PM
…and I mean every word of it. Some non-#SB1070 tweets behind the cut, because this is the Friday Twitterbreak, and you’ve earned that break. —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —- —-…
Topics: Immigration
Brewer: ‘I Do Not Know What An Illegal Immigrant Looks Like’
by Jorge Rivas on April 23 2010, 5:32PM
Immediately following the press conference where Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, someone in the press pool asked her to “please explain what criteria will be used to determine if someone is an illegal immigrant? What does…
Topics: Arizona's SB 1070, Immigration
Activists, Congress Tackle Next Steps on Immigration Reform
by Jamilah King on April 23 2010, 4:29PM
On the same day that Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law, some members are getting ready to act. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), whose blistering criticism of the Obama administration’s failure to tackle immigration reform pushed Democratic…
Topics: Immigration
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