Three undocumented DREAM activists who had been arrested Monday on second degree trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office were released last night from ICE custody, according to ICE spokesman Vinne Picard.Picard said the three activists were issued notices to appear in their immigration…
Finally, a way to get rid of Maricopa County’s geriatric gendarme Sheriff Joe, and he doesn’t even have to get indicted by the feds! Though that would still be pretty sweet.In a message to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon publicized today, La-la Land Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the City of Angels will…
Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law.In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America…
Note to readers: Please see updates and video below.The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that four young pro-immigration demonstrators, three of them undocumented, were arrested during a protest at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office today. The Star reports that five students showed up at the office in support of…
As it had announced it would do last week, the ACLU along with several other groups filed suit in federal court today, seeking to have Arizona’s “papers please” legislation enjoined before it’s scheduled to take effect by the end of July.”SB 1070 is unconstitutional,” asserts the complaint. “It violates the…
Is Lakers head coach Phil Jackson — generally known for his lefty ways — a nativist as well?That’s the only conclusion one can draw from his recent statements to ESPN in support of SB 1070, a law sponsored by neo-Nazi hugging Mexican-hater, state Senator Russell Pearce.In speaking with ESPN’s J.A…
In an effort to un-muddle the debate around SB 1070, Dan Nowicki’s article in this Sunday’s Arizona Republic further muddles it when he quotes the law’s author, nativist attorney Kris Kobach, in a section titled “papers, please.”Kobach — the guy being paid $300 per hour to tutor Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys…
In a media event that lasted less than 20 minutes, before a crowd of red-shirted Brewer-for-Governor supporters at the Marriott Desert Ridge in north Phoenix, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin stood with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as part of a propaganda effort to counter the tsunami of criticism over Arizona’s…
Sarah Palin will be in Phoenix Saturday at the Marriott Desert Ridge, joining her fellow Republican, Governor Jan Brewer in an event billed at launching a “national effort and Web site to educate America on border security and encourage support for Arizona.”In other words, Brewer’s hoping Caribou Barbie can do…
Cuban-American rapper Armando “Pitbull” Perez is taking a bite out of Arizona over the state’s “papers please” legislation by canceling a stop in Phoenix at the Celebrity Theatre as part of his “Mr. Worldwide’s Carnival” tour.The popular rapper, perhaps best known for the joint “Culo,” which partnered him with rap…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office released records to New Times that seem to contradict our notion that the SCA fishing trip in Alaska may have been funded by the county. To the office’s credit, the taxpayer-funded trip to Alaska taken by Sheriff’s Office personnel in late October to early November 2006…
The ACLU has sent out a media advisory stating that it will formally announce its federal anti-SB 1070 lawsuit on Monday. The ACLU is keeping mum till then, but you can anticipate that the suit will seek to enjoin the law, and hopefully stop it from going into effect before…
Friday, college grads and alumni at ASU’s Hispanic Convocation are going to tell SB 1070 supporters where to go, in the nicest way possible.Los Diablos, ASU’s Latino Alumni Association, has unveiled a brilliant new retort to Arizona’s nasty “paper’s please” legislation: A maroon and gold T-shirt, which reads, “You want…
Captain Joel Fox finally received his computer equipment back from the state Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating him on allegations of making improper political contributions. Fox, typically chatty, has been mostly silent in the last few months as rumors swirl that he’s going to be indicted. But the other…
About a dozen or so activists protested an American Bar Association conference at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio resort in north Phoenix, demanding that the participants walk out of the conference and join the nationwide boycott of Arizona over SB 1070.Organized in part by Linda Brown of the Arizona Advocacy Network,…
The Los Angeles City Council today joined the growing list of cities and organizations boycotting Arizona because of our new “papers please” legislation SB 1070. Well, kinda sorta.According to LA Times reporter Phl Willon, the council voted to “ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies” here,…
The news has been such a downer lately, what with Arizona declaring war on Hispanics, the near-universal condemnation of Arizona’s new “papers please” legislation, and a boycott of Arizona that could cost the City of Phoenix alone $90 million, that I’ve decided we all need some lighter fare, if only…
Guadalupe activist Andrew Sanchez and activist Margarito Blancas got the CNN treatment today, in a piece running on CNN’s Web site with the header “Cop-watchers look for racial profiling on the streets of Phoenix.”CNN tagged along with Sanchez and Blancas (CNN has the latter’s name as “Blanco,” though I’ve always…
You know it’s bad when California’s tres unpopular, washed-up screen star guv — whose dad was a member of the Nazi party back in the day — is using your state’s “papers please” law as the butt of his shuck-and-jive before a crowd of college grads.”I was also going to…
No doubt you’ve heard about Sheriff Joe’s weekend visit to Stoney’s Rockin’ Country bar and dance hall in Las Vegas. It was protested by about 200 people, who called him a racist and yelled, “Arpaio go home!” at him. This guy’s name is mud nationwide. Just wait till he’s (hopefully)…
If you’re not a basketball person or a Suns fan, you should head out to the Valley Art on Mill Ave. in Tempe today and check out the documentary 9500 Liberty. I caught the film last night, and was intrigued by its depiction of the conflict in Prince William County,…
Sultans of falsehoods: Man, is Bill O’Reilly looking old these days, or what?The lefty Think Progress Web site has addressed an absurd, nativist shibboleth that I’ve heard kicking around the conservanut echo chamber lately: The lie that SB 1070, Arizona’s new “papers please” legislation, is actually supported by a majority…
