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January 9, 1997
Closed Door Policy
A Chilean national's struggle against deportation raises fundamental questions about the constitutional rights of immigrants
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May 19, 2005
Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005
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June 1, 2009
Immigration Bills in Queue at State Senate; Mesa's Russell Pearce Planning All-Out Push Against Illegals
The typical roster of proposed laws has been postponed this year as lawmakers try to finalize a budget, but plenty of interesting bills are hiding in the wings. A long list of bills targeting illegal immigrants, for example, is being pushed by Mesa's conservative State Senator Russell Pearce ... More >>
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July 10, 2008
Mesa Police Chief George Gascón stares down Sheriff Joe Arpaio
The typical roster of proposed laws has been postponed this year as lawmakers try to finalize a budget, but plenty of interesting bills are hiding in the wings. A long list of bills targeting illegal immigrants, for example, is being pushed by Mesa's conservative State Senator Russell Pearce ... More >>
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December 27, 2007
Flushing Them Out
Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants
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November 3, 2005
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 3, 2005
Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants
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June 8, 2000
Illegal Turn
Drive to license undocumented immigrant motorists accelerates through Latino community
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April 6, 2000
Phoenix or Busted
The Valley is now the prime way station for ruthless smugglers engaged in the lucrative trafficking of human cargo -- illegal immigrants
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November 18, 1999
Muzzle Puzzle
Why did City Hall keep a new police policy toward illegals quiet until after the election?
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May 14, 2009
Neo-Nazis and Extreme Right-Wingers Love Joe Arpaio, and There’s Evidence that the MCSO Keeps Them Close
Why did City Hall keep a new police policy toward illegals quiet until after the election?
Blogs
June 5, 2009
Former INS Agent from Valley Pushes Heavy use of E-Verify Program
The government has a program in place that could freeze illegal workers from the workplace -- E-Verify. But political leaders on both sides of the aisle don't want to use it. Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass makes this point today with quotes from a former immigration ag ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Illegal Immigrant Gets 16 Years for Taking Life of Phoenix Cop in DUI Collision
Shane Figueroa An illegal immigrant who was drunk when he smashed into a Phoenix police car last year, killing Officer Shane Figueroa, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison. Salvador Vivas-Diaz, 50, turned left in front of Figueroa's cruiser on October 25, 2008, in the intersection of 19th Aven ... More >>
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July 9, 2009
Arpaio’s Busts of Illegals at Popular Valley Water Parks Are All Wet
Shane Figueroa An illegal immigrant who was drunk when he smashed into a Phoenix police car last year, killing Officer Shane Figueroa, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison. Salvador Vivas-Diaz, 50, turned left in front of Figueroa's cruiser on October 25, 2008, in the intersection of 19th Aven ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
Thomas Takes Credit for Drop in Crime; Repeat Offenders Locked Up at Higher Rate
Do the "tough-on-crime" policies of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas work to reduce crime? Thomas thinks so. The prim politician, now in his second term, campaigned in 2004 on a platform of stopping illegal immigration and throwing the book at criminals. Now, if you belie ... More >>
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October 12, 2009
Thomas: Crackdown on Illegals is Reducing Crime
County Attorney Andrew ThomasMaricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is crediting a recent reduction in the county's crime statistics to a crackdown on illegal immigrants.Of course! Because U.S. citizens never break the law.According to Thomas, the percentage of illegal immigrants sentenced for fe ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Illegal-Immigration Opponent Russell Pearce Could be Appointed Head of DPS, News Outlets Say
Here's one from the rumor mill: Russell Pearce (above), the state senator from Mesa who's led the charge against illegal immigration in Arizona, could be appointed head of the state Department of Public Safety. The Phoenix Business Journal and KTAR (92.3 FM) quote anonymo ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Return to Sender: The Feds, Fueled by Local Anti-Immigration Hostility, Are Draining Talented Undocumented Youth into Mexico
Here's one from the rumor mill: Russell Pearce (above), the state senator from Mesa who's led the charge against illegal immigration in Arizona, could be appointed head of the state Department of Public Safety. The Phoenix Business Journal and KTAR (92.3 FM) quote anonymo ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
J.D. Hayworth Uses Death of Murdered Rancher to Question John McCain's Stance on Illegal Immigration
www.tpm.comSenator John McCain's GOP primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, is using the killing of a prominent Cochise County rancher to question McCain's stance on immigration, despite there being no confirmation that an illegal immigrant had anything to do with the murder.Robert Krentz was fou ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Romley Says Decision to Release 32 Immigrants was Sheriff Arpaio's, Not His
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley's spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back on Friday to say a decision hadn't been made yet. T ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Badlands: For Those Living in the Arizona County That's Ground Zero for Drug and Human Trafficking Along the Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis Is Personal
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley's spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back on Friday to say a decision hadn't been made yet. T ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley's spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back on Friday to say a decision hadn't been made yet. T ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 26, 2010
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley's spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back on Friday to say a decision hadn't been made yet. T ... More >>
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October 20, 2010
Russell Pearce's Unconstitutional, Un-American Attack on U.S. Citizen Children
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Sidebar: Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Sidebar: Mexican Macroeconomics
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Cloaked Brutality: The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?
Russell Pearce, defiling Old Glory in this picture, and spitting on the U.S. Constitution in generalSo was anyone surprised by neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce's press conference yesterday announcing that he'll be targeting U.S. citizen children in a racist attempt to undermine the U.S. ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Joe Arpaio Uses Death of Illegal Immigrant to Push for Tent Cities Along U.S./Mexico Border
Joe Arpaio's solution to the immigration problem: throw 'em all in tents.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a message for the federal government: build tent cities along the U.S./Mexico border to house captured illegal immigrants rather than deport them.Joe's suggestion comes after sher ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Two Charged After 53 Illegal Immigrants Found in Phoenix Drop House
ICEICE agents found 50 illegal immigrants in a west Phoenix drop house on Friday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents found 53 people in a Phoenix drop house on Friday, and two Mexican nationals now face human smuggling charges. Edgar Meza-Bustamante, 23, and Cruz Gerardo Meza-Tira ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Police Arrest Six Illegal Immigrants in Human Smuggling Operation; Cops Find a Bunch of Weed Too
MCSO Francisco Ruben Martinez-Granillo, charged with possession of marijuana for sale, kidnapping for ransom, smuggling humans for profit, and theft by extortion.Police arrested six illegal immigrants in Phoenix Wednesday, accusing them of charges ranging from human smuggling, kidnapping f ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Russell Pearce's Day of Bigotry, Barbarism and Triumph
Democratic Senator Olivia Cajero Bedford, calling out Pearce as a "dictator"In the end, they all passed out of the state Senate Appropriations Committee, all of state Senate President Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant bills, other hate-filled measures offered by his stooges, and cataclysmic proposed l ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
DPS: Man Who Crashed Into School Bus Full O' Kids is Well-Known Human Smuggler
raritanval.eduAfter allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid -- until they found out he wasn't a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safet ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Ask a Mexican on Supporting the Other Guy and Automated Laughter Tracks
raritanval.eduAfter allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid -- until they found out he wasn't a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safet ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Under Mark Spencer's Leadership, the Phoenix Police Union Has Become an Anti-Immigrant Juggernaut, to the Detriment of Its Members
raritanval.eduAfter allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid -- until they found out he wasn't a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safet ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Obama Adminstration Wants Illegal Immigrants to Vote, Says Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne
Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, is defending a law that requires proof of citizenship to be presented in order to register to vote. President Obama's hoping to secure votes from illegal immigrants by fighting an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship at the polls, says Arizon ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Janet Napolitano's "Secure Communities" Program Secure in Arizona, Elsewhere Not So Much
Three states have opted out of a federal immigration program that helps identify and deport illegal immigrants.Massachusetts is now the third state to opt out of a federal immigration program that helps identify illegal immigrants and turn them over to federal officials.Governor Deval Patrick cal ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering the U.S. Workforce Are Starting Their Own Businesses to Survive
Three states have opted out of a federal immigration program that helps identify and deport illegal immigrants.Massachusetts is now the third state to opt out of a federal immigration program that helps identify illegal immigrants and turn them over to federal officials.Governor Deval Patrick cal ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Joe Arpaio Calls This Morning's Illegal-Immigrant Roundup "Employer Sanctions Operation." No "Employers" Actually Arrested
Call it what it is, Joe: an illegal immigrant roundup.After our previous post about Joe Arpaio's immigrant roundup at a downtown Phoenix restaurant this morning, America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" issued a press release, in which he boasts that his agency "is the only law enforcem ... More >>
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June 18, 2011
ICE Honcho John Morton Blasted by Critics of Secure Communities
Critics think ICE director Morton's policy reforms are a feel-good PR stunt.Pro-immigrant lawyers and activists are slamming the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for recently announced policy "changes" that they say will do nothing to improve the way illegal immigrants are b ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 7, 2011
Critics think ICE director Morton's policy reforms are a feel-good PR stunt.Pro-immigrant lawyers and activists are slamming the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for recently announced policy "changes" that they say will do nothing to improve the way illegal immigrants are b ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Joe Arpaio: Illegal Immigrants Avoiding Maricopa County -- Except for the 10 Arrested Last Night in North Valley
According to Joe, his tough guy antics are causing illegal immigrants to avoid Maricopa County -- which is funny considering 10 were busted last night.Maricopa County's corrupt top cop, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims smugglers transporting drugs and illegal immigrants are avoiding Maricopa ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
MCSO Claims it's Investigating Employer in Days Inn Illegal Immigrant Roundup
MCSO's August raid of a Phoenix Days Inn has now netted precisely two arrests.The overall ineffectiveness of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's illegal immigrant roundups aside, one of our biggest criticisms recently has been that they're conducted under the guise of "employer sanctions" operat ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Joe Arpaio's Latest Illegal Immigrant Roundup Nets Seven Arrests; MCSO Going Gangbusters in West Phoenix Manana
WARNING: Joe Arpaio will be rounding up illegal immigrants in west Phoenix tomorrow.If you're a criminal, illegal immigrant, or just don't want to get hassled by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's boys in beige, avoid West Phoenix tomorrow -- the MCSO's staging its latest "crime-suppression operation."Th ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
"Dream Act" Signed by California Governor Jerry Brown. KPHO Suggests the "Dream" Could Be Coming to Arizona. Ha!
www.imdb.comDream Act for Arizona? Shyeah...right.The "Dream" came true for illegal immigrants in California over the weekend -- Governor Jerry Brown signed a version of the controversial Dream Act into California law Saturday. Now, local TV news station KPHO is suggesting the "Dream" may be comi ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Michele Bachmann: "America's Failure to Secure the Border is Now a Terrorism Issue"
James King Michele Bachmann with state Senate President Russell Pearce and Congressman Trent Franks. Yikes.Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was in Phoenix this morning, where she met with local politicos at the State Capitol to talk about illegal immigration and, to quote Senator J ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Joe Arpaio's Latest Illegal Immigrant Roundup/"Employer Sanctions Operation" Nets 10 Arrests
America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff," Joe Arpaio.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio launched his 55th illegal-immigrant roundup under the guise of an "employer sanctions operation" this morning. It netted 10 arrests -- and, per usual, none of those arrested were employers, just empl ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Rick Perry and Joe Arpaio: the Bromance Explained (By the Sheriff Himself)
New TimesJoe Arpaio's accepted Rick Perry's apology for saying anyone who wouldn't educate children of illegal immigrants doesn't "have a heart."Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has officially picked his horse in the GOP presidential primary, Texas Governor Rick Perry, which came as a bit of s ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Arpaio Still Silent on Judge Murry Snow's Ruling on Human Smuggling Investigations
Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn't yet ready to comment on a federal court ruling aimed at hampering his ability to investigate immigration crimes during traffic stops. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to have been stunned into silence by a federal court ruling intended to hamper his office's a ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
Sheriff Arpaio's Office, in Seeming Defiance of Judge, Arrests Five Suspected Illegal Immigrants on Human-Smuggling Charges
Image: MCSO Two of the five men arrested yesterday on suspicion of human smuggling and conspiracy. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested five men last night on suspicion of human smuggling and conspiracy, days after a federal judge's ruling on such investigations. ... More >>
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