Pedro Ultreras’ brutal, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns), which depicts the plight of a group of migrants crossing the Sonoran desert is a must-see for all Americans if they want to understand the sheer horror some immigrants are willing to endure to come to this country. In it, director Ultreras,…
Sharing is caring. That’s why I’m posting a link to a list of the names, ranks, serial numbers, hire dates, and pay rates for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 287(g)-trained deputies. (You can view the list, here.) These are the deputies trained by the feds to enforce federal immigration law, and according…
According to local news reports, Arizona’s office of tourism is all worked up about Arthur Frommer’s blog comments regarding Arizona wackos carrying AR-15s outside events where the President of the United States is speaking. This is part of what Frommer had to say: “For myself, without yet suggesting that others…
So what’s this deal about hockey-stud Levi Johnston’s druggie ma having Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s pink handcuffs slapped on her in an Alaska courtroom after pleading guilty for illegally possessing OxyContin, aka, “The Rush Limbaugh Drug”?You’ll recall that Levi is the 19-year-old who impregnated Bristol Palin, Wasilla-wackjob Sarah Palin’s kid. During…
BULL CONGRESSMAN Next time Congressman John Shadegg holds a town hall meeting, remind me to clothespin my nose. What’s wafting from the Republican pol is the stench of hypocrisy. True to what you’ve been seeing nonstop on the TV news lately, his August 8 town hall on healthcare was full…
Looks like it’s splitsville for Hooman Karamian, aka Nik Richie, the gossipmonger and trash-talker behind the Web site The Dirty.com, and his wife of about four years Amanda Toney. According to court filings, Toney, who is a managing partner in the Scottsdale marketing firm The Taka Group and was once a…
As I anticipated in yesterday’s blog post, the Arizona ACLU today had a press conference at their offices with father-son Julian and Julio Mora present, announcing a lawsuit on their behalf against Sheriff Joe and other members of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The incident at issue occurred during the…
The Arizona ACLU isn’t giving out any details, but they’ve just issued a press advisory that at noon tomorrow they will announce a lawsuit, “on behalf of two Avondale residents who were illegally arrested and detained during a worksite raid conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.” Though the ACLU’s…
I don’t know if playwright James Garcia modeled the character Captain Montoya from his new play The Tears of Lives on Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. But as portrayed by actor Andrew Valenzuela, Montoya is a chilling vision of Hispanic self-loathing, a man driven to…
Know how the minutemen and the nativists are always kvetching that illegal immigrants are all criminals, even though the most they’re guilty of is a federal misdemeanor, if that? Well, methinks these pseudo pay-triots kvetch too much about others, particularly in the wake of the arrest of Minuteman American Defense founder Shawna…
The billionaires join ranks with the Obama-haters in this new Dennis Gilman video. In the tradition of Michael Moore and the stunts he regularly pulled in his TV show The Awful Truth (and continues to pull in his films), come the Billionaires for Wealthcare, a crew of wannabe-Warren Buffets who crashed…
It’d do the hate-filled nativist knuckledraggers good to read the latest Cato Institute report, Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform, but I can’t be sure if these pseudo-patriot pinheads can read past a third grade education. So, instead, I’m going to suggest that Homeland Security czar…
Lorena learned about her mom’s arrest during the MCSO raid at Royal Paper Converting Company in South Phoenix when her uncle called to tell her about it. Lorena’s mother had been working long hours at the plant to feed her and her two younger brothers. Lorena is 17, and she had to care for…
Mayor Phil Gordon is to be congratulated for the Elements of Hate panel discussion his office organized, which took place Wednesday at the newly-renovated AE England Building at Civic Space Park in Downtown Phoenix. The event coincided with the visit of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s representative Heidi Beirich. In…
Despite a shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement away from indiscriminate worksite raids nationwide, and despite the fact that Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to thumb his nose at the feds in various ways — taping conversations between ICE and MCSO employees, refusing to cooperate with a Justice Department investigation, etc…
From the broiler of ‘Bama to the desert heat of Ari-bama, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Dr. Heidi Beirich descended on the offices of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon Wednesday and blasted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his associations with neo-Nazi and nativist individuals and organizations. Actually, Beirich had a…
I’ll say one thing about nativist nudniks like William Gheen of ALIPAC, they can sure dish it out when it comes to bashing Mexicans on their little blogs, but boy do they scurry like schoolyard cowards when you call them out. I’m on Facebook, and I believe I became his “friend” a…
Shackled and dressed in stripes, Daniel Mahon avoided Don Logan’s eyes in federal court today as the man Mahon’s accused of targeting with a mail bomb spoke to the court, looking over his shoulder from time to time at the defendant as he addressed Judge David Campbell from a lectern…
Above is Phoenix pro-immigration activist Dennis Gilman’s video of this past Friday’s successful Children’s Walk for Family Unity, organized by Sal Reza’s organization Puente. Despite the fake outrage over the demonstration from radio lunkheads like Mac and Gaydos on local wing-nut station KTAR 92.3 FM, I think you can tell from the…
Save for the implied threat of the nativists, today’s children’s march from Sheriff Joe’s Fourth Avenue Jail in Downtown Phoenix to the Wells Fargo Building, where the MCSO keeps two floors of pricey executive offices, was an inspiring spectacle. About 150 persons, more than half of whom were kids, participated…
The KKK-wannabes over at ex-KIA dealer Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America have really outdone themselves this time. Not only have they announced their intention to be at Sal Reza’s children’s march Friday in order to intimidate and likely harass Hispanic children. They have also posted a racist image…
With KFYI 550 AM being the home of conservatard puddin’ head and “birfer” (yeah, I’m spellin’ it right) J.D. Hayworth, whodathunk it that KFYI would also prove to be the voice of reason in the birther debate? At least that was the deal when Phoenix legal beagle Barry Markson was sitting in…
