You’ve got to give it up for Meghan McCain, who came out against state Senator Russell Pearce’s racial profiling law yesterday, particularly since her opinion on the legislation is far more nuanced and thoughtful than her dad’s. U.S. Senator John McCain, long an advocate of immigration reform, has been doing cartwheels…
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – No Problemo www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News Right-wing pollster Scott Rasmussen’s surveys sometimes resemble push polls, in that they are obviously intended to influence opinions as well as record them. One of these days,…
Like you need more proof that Arizona has become a national joke due to its wingnutty gun laws, its conspiranutty birther bill, and its racist new immigration law SB 1070, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update took aim at the state’s intolerance and fondness for racial profiling with the following swipe…
Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez exhorted an audience of thousands at the Arizona state Capitol Sunday to fight against the racial profiling bill SB 1070 recently signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer. Standing on a platform before a line of potential Dream Act students, he denounced the new state law,…
Firebrand Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez from Illinois will be joining opponents of the new SB 1070 law at the Arizona state Capitol Sunday, April 25 at noon to protest the legislation, which codifies racial profiling into state law.Gutierrez is a fierce, pull-no-punches advocate of immigrant rights and immigration reform. He’s…
Gustavo Arellano has some fun with Joe about 29 seconds inDespite horrendous mismanagement of his department, corruption, a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into his office, and a federal grand jury looking to indict his sorry self, Sheriff Joe remains popular in some quarters outside of Maricopa County. Specifically, in…
In an act of political cowardice, Governor Jan Brewer signed state Senator Russell Pearce’s police state/bigot bill SB 1070 into law, characterizing it as “another step forward in protecting the state of Arizona.”With a boycott of the state threatened and thousands gathering at the state Capitol to protest the bill, I’m…
Over the objections of the President of the United States, and a wide array of police, civil rights and religious groups and leaders, Governor Jan Bewer is expected to announce the signing of Russell Pearce’s bigot bill SB 1070 at 1:30 p.m. today.Brewer just called a press conference for that…
President Barack Obama unloaded on Arizona today, blasting state Senator Russell Pearce’s bigot bill SB 1070 as “misguided” and irresponsible during a naturalization ceremony in the White House Rose Garden for 24 active-duty service members.But he didn’t let the federal government off the hook. Indeed, he blamed Arizona’s legislative actions…
Is Governor Jan Brewer ready to become the most hated woman in Arizona by signing SB 1070?That’s the query I directed toward Brewer as she stalked out of the Chicanos Por La Causa 41st Anniversary Dinner, the cries of “Veto the bill” echoing behind her. Brewer maintained the silence of…
Arizona state House Representative Russ Jones has penned an opinion piece for CNN, offering excuses for Russell Pearce’s bigot bill SB 1070, which now sits on Governor Jan Brewer’s desk awaiting action.I also penned an opinion piece for CNN on SB 1070, lauding the nine students who chained themselves to the…
I completely agree with Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva: It’s time to punish Arizona. If Governor Jan Brewer refuses to veto state Senator Russell Pearce’s bigot bill SB 1070, then those who oppose it need to support an economic boycott of the state.Tuesday on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, in a…
State Senator Russell Pearce calls them “anarchists,” I call them a group of courageous young Americans.But don’t worry what a white-trash bigot like Pearce has to say about the nine who were arrested shortly after chaining themselves to the old Capitol building’s doors yesterday.Watch Dennis Gilman’s video above, and you’ll…
Nine activists protesting state Senator Russell Pearce’s anti-immigrant bill SB 1070 chained and locked themselves to the doors of the Arizona Capitol today, forcing the Capitol Police to use bolt cutters to unchain the nine and arrest them for disorderly conduct. As a demonstration of hundreds denouncing SB 1070 raged…
Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles denounced state Senator Russell Pearce’s anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 on his blog Sunday, likening the bill to the police state tactics of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. Calling the bill “the country’s most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law,” Mahony spoke…
With a three-ring circus of gun enthusiasts, pro-immigrant protesters, and lobbyists swirling outside the Arizona legislature, state Senator Russell Pearce’s police state/anti-immigrant bill, SB 1070, passed its final read today on the Senate floor and was transmitted to the governor. Governor Jan Brewer now has three options: veto it, sign…
Speaking to attendees of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Black and White Ball Saturday night at the downtown Phoenix Sheraton, Governor Jan Brewer refused to say whether or not she would sign state Senator Russell Pearce’s police state/anti-immigrant bill SB 1070. But she assured the crowd that she understood…
With summer approaching and the death count of migrant bodies found on the Mexico-Sonoran border in the high 80s according to the watchdog group Derechos Humanos, there may be no better time for Margaret Regan, author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands to be visiting the Phoenix area…
State Senator Russell Pearce’ s anti-immigrant/police state legislation is scheduled to go to the Senate floor Monday for its final read. There, legislators are expected to approve the amended version that just emerged from the state House. From the Senate, it will be transmitted to Governor Jan Brewer, who will likely…
Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with the help of numerous other law enforcement agencies, arrested 47 suspects and 17 non-criminal aliens while taking down a human smuggling ring that operated mostly in central and southern Arizona. ICE is touting “Operation In Plain Sight” as “the most comprehensive human smuggling investigation in…
State House Minority Leader David Lujan was made to eat a plate of crow stew last night at a debate sponsored by ASU’s Young Democrats among Democratic candidates for state Attorney General. His rival Vince Rabago, a former assistant Attorney General from Tucson, lit into Lujan from jump for missing the…
It’s state Senator Russell Pearce’s Arizona, and the Democrats just live in it. The Republicans? They do as they’re told.Such is the state of affairs after the passage of Pearce’s police state/anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 in the Arizona House today. The handful of disgruntled Republicans who’d been promising quietly (and…
