The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office claims a gang member was “planning to publicly assassinate Sheriff Joe Arpaio using a high powered rifle.”The first problem with the plot of gangster Samuel Matta was that he couldn’t come up with the $1,800 to bond out of jail after he stole a car…
See Also: Ana Tijoux at Puente’s Noche de Mujeres See Also: Ana Tijoux Rocks Phoenix Sunday Night at Puente’s Noche de Mujeres See Also: DREAMers Score a Win with Obama’s Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over Chilean-French MC Ana Tijoux today released a new music video titled…
See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer Afraid While most pro-immigrant activists are focusing on educating people about President Obama’s new immigration policy regarding DREAM Act students, which promises to stop the deportations of some undocumented youth, the local human-rights group Puente is advocating a halt…
Former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema is many things: a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District, a strident advocate for lefty causes, a one-time supporter of erstwhile Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. And, according to the nonprofit National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials,…
There are many things Sheriff Joe Arpaio could fully explain to us here at New Times. Many of them can be found under our “Investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio” file.That said, Arpaio opted to defend himself from the assumption that he was a horrible basketball player in high school.Let’s just say…
See also: Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins.Part verbal terrorist, part international man of mystery, Duke St. Rollins trolls the Facebook sites of teatard politicos and talking heads, leaving behind flaming piles of fresh manure that the ‘baggers are never entirely able to extinguish. Via screenshots, the Duke…
See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer AfraidSee Also: Janet Napolitano’s “Secure Communities” Program Secure in Arizona, Elsewhere Not So MuchThe California State Senate passed a bill Thursday that is being called the “anti-Arizona law” by pro-immigrant activists.The TRUST Act, as it is officially known, would…
See Also: Obama’s 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with ArizonSee Also: Bill Montgomery Blames Obama’s 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix Cop Arizona Congressman David Schweikert is taking a jab at the Obama administration for its decision to scrap part of a federal immigration program in Arizona.In an opinion…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probably the only person who could convince his faithful fans to watch him open Al Capone’s empty vault over and over again.That’s pretty much what Arpaio’s set to do in a couple of weeks, as the sheriff announced through his other PR team (WorldNetDaily) that he’s holding…
Buzzfeed posted a list earlier this week of “69 Politicians As They Were In High School,” including some vintage yearbook shots of Governor Jan Brewer, Senator John McCain, and former Governor Janet Napolitano.That prompted us to check out the Museum of Natural History 1950 yearbook from Commerce High School in…
I despise the United States Border Patrol. One-hundred miles from the U.S. Border, the entire U.S. border, they are a law unto themselves, in what the ACLU refers to as a “constitution free zone,” that encircles the entire contiguous United States.They regularly treat U.S. citizens with contempt. This, despite the…
From an authoritative book review on a book he never actually read to backlash from a cockfight with Steven Seagal, it’s been a busy first six months of 2012 for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. With the Fourth of July upon us, it’s only right that we honor this self-anointed…
ABC 15’s report on Joe’s ICE announcementSee also: Bill Montgomery Blames Obama’s 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix CopSee also: Obama’s 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with ArizonaSee also: Jan Brewer Hysterical Over Homeland Security’s 287(g) MoveI’m skeptical of MCSO press releases and anything our…
See also: Arizonans Cast Ballots in Mexican Elections, from ArizonaU.S. Senator John McCain sent his congratulations via Twitter to Mexico’s president-elect, soap-opera-actress lover Enrique Pena Nieto on a historic win bringing back to power the PRI, a once authoritarian political party, from a 12-year hiatus.According to preliminary results announced by Mexico’s…
When Mexico’s Congress allowed its country’s citizens to vote from abroad for the first time in 2006, local immigrant-rights activist Carmen Cornejo leapt at the chance to cast her ballot for President Felipe Calderon.With the 2012 Mexican presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, Cornejo, a naturalized United States citizen born in…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Sand Land politics these days. He just don’t get no respect. Thing is, in his case, he deserves no respect, whereas Dangerfield’s self-pity was a shtick. People actually liked him. They despise Joe. At least those with half a brain or more.Because of this,…
Let’s be honest, there are a lot of nativists out there who are caressing their hands at the prospect that an Arizona cop might soon be killed by an illegal alien.What better way to attack both the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-3 decision tossing three sections of Senate Bill 1070,…
Things are not going well for disgraced, recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce, the marble-mouthed Mesa mook who’s attempting a comeback with a Legislative District 25 run for state Senate.In spite of Pearce’s half-hearted claims of a “huge win” in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision on his baby,…
I’d have no problem with Governor Jan Brewer’s whining like a stuck javelina about the Obama administration’s jerking 287(g) agreements with Arizona, and promising to not pick up, or answer questions about every brown person ‘Zona cops pull over. That is, if either her kvetching or the administration’s move were…
Let’s all play Sand Land’s new favorite game… Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez is freaking cool. A passionate pro-immigrant advocate and enemy of nativist goobers everywhere, the guy also has a sense of humor, as evidenced by his appearance on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this morning to…
Governor Jan Brewer is in the throes of a full-on hissy fit in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is yanking its 287(g) agreements with Arizona law enforcement agencies, supposedly in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier today to uphold the “papers please” section…
SCOTUSBlog.com is reporting that Section 2(b) of Arizona’s immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as not pre-empted by federal immigration law.Of the court’s decision, SCOTISBlog writes, “It was improper for the lower courts to enjoin section 2(b), which requires police officers to check…
