07/30/10 Protests in Arizona and through-out America continued today after Arizonan's governor, Jan Brewer asked an appeals court to reconsider the most heinous parts of the state's new immigration law and as the lightning-rod Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, prepared a highly publicized "crime sweep."
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07/30/10 The Spanish-language press continues to analyze Judge Susan Bolton's partial injunction against SB 1070 and Arizona's quick appeal of the decision, considering the political effects and wondering how this will impact the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform --which continued demonstrations in Phoenix and other cities throughout the country demonstrate is still sorely needed.
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07/29/10 The partial injunction issued yesterday by Judge Susan Bolton, blocking some of the most controversial sections of Arizona law SB 1070 from going into effect, generated a range of reactions among Hispanics in Arizona and elsewhere, as covered in various Spanish-language outlets.
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07/29/10 Check out this cartoon, from AZ Daily Star, depicting Arizona's immigration law getting stopped at the border.
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07/28/10 Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for Arizona has just issued a injunction preventing key sections of Arizona law SB 1070 from going into effect tomorrow -- including the sections criminalizing all undocumented immigrants under state law and requiring police to ask anyone for papers during traffic stops or housing inspections if they had a "reasonable suspicion" the person was undocumented.
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07/28/10 With SB 1070 scheduled to go into effect tomorrow, unless Judge Susan Bolton issues a decision today striking down the law, the Spanish-language press examines how Arizona is preparing for the next few days.
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07/27/10 With action on comprehensive immigration reform stalled due to partisan politics, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has started talking about what can pass now, and he's looking at the DREAM Act. The bipartisan legislation, which would give legal residency to undocumented youth under the condition they go to college or join the military, has the support of 70% of Americans.
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07/27/10 Hundreds of courageous student activists from across the country descended upon Washington last week to raise awareness and fight for the DREAM Act.
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07/27/10 Following a story in yesterday's Washington Post, the Spanish-language press leads with new numbers showing that deportations are still higher under the Obama administration than they were under Bush--while a new poll shows that the president's majority support among Latinos is threatened by a split in assessment of his job performance on issues important to the Latino community.And the Democratic leaders of both houses of Congress will meet today to discuss prospects for the DREAM Act.
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07/26/10 Cross-Posted at Citizen Orange. The “DREAM Now Series: Letters to Barack Obama” is a social media campaign that launched Monday, July 19, to underscore the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, S. 729, would help tens of thousands of young people, American in all [...]
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07/26/10 As anti-immigrant ringleaders whip themselves into a frenzy over illegal immigration, and continue a strategy that is both bad for the Republican Party and bad for the country, some Republicans are suggesting another way.
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07/26/10 The Spanish-language press continues to wait with bated breath for Judge Susan Bolton to issue a decision on whether to keep Arizona's SB 1070 from going into effect this Thursday, July 29th.
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07/23/10 The initial hearing in the federal lawsuit against Arizona law SB 1070, held yesterday in Phoenix, continues to dominate the headlines in the Spanish-language press.
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07/22/10 I posted this up earlier in the week, but I wanted to make sure folks here in Vegas got a shot to join us for these fabulous immigration panels, screenings, and discussions at Netroots Nation. Note that we'll be showing off some original video at Friday's 3pm immigration film screening with Justin Krebs. We'll be helping out with the Immigration Caucus on Friday at noon, and we'll be giving away Vegas-inspired "DREAM Act" scratch cards in the registration packets. Don't forget to see if you've won and sign the DREAM petition!
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07/22/10 Today's hearing in Phoenix over the federal lawsuit—and other suits—filed against Arizona law SB 1070 occupies the attention of the Spanish-language press, which covers it from a variety of angles.
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07/21/10 The DREAM Now letters to follow each week, from undocumented young people who feel they must tell their stories, will be used to call attention to the urgent need to pass the DREAM Act without further delay. Please get involved by posting the letters on your blog, your facebook or twitter profiles, or wherever you can. Together we can make the DREAM Act a reality for the million or more young people whose lives are now on hold, waiting for this critical legislation -- a stepping stone to full immigration reform that 70% of Americans support.
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07/21/10 The demonstration yesterday by activists calling for passage of the DREAM Act, which would legalize young people who had completed at least two years of college or enlisted in the military (in addition to fulfilling other requirements), is one of the lead stories in the Spanish-language media this morning. And on the eve of the second hearing in the federal lawsuit against Arizona law SB 1070, that suit -- and the law it challenges -- also occupy the headlines.
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07/20/10 Yesterday, the President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis sat down to talk about a key workers' rights issue: comprehensive immigration reform. The duo made a clear and compelling case for reform that legalizes undocumented immigrants, and explained why comprehensive reform is in the interest of all workers in America – immigrant and native-born.
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07/20/10 With today's "graduation ceremony" for DREAM activists in Washington, questions resurface about how the bill legalizing undocumented young people will move forward. As the border prepares to receive National Guard troops, controversy remains over the death of Anastasio Hernández in Border Guard custody; and the list released in Utah last week purporting to identify undocumented immigrants has struck fear into the hearts of the entire Latino community there.
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07/20/10 From the America's Voice team, Adam Luna will be speaking Thursday at 3pm on a panel with Arizona State Rep Kyrsten Sinema entitled "Immigration Reform's Strange Bedfellows: The Surprising Consensus that Reform will Improve American Jobs and Bolster Our Economy," and yours truly will be on a panel Saturday at 4pm with Markos, founder and publisher of Daily Kos, and Rep. Grijalva, who's been fighting for immigration reform in what's become ground zero of the nation's immigration debate. It's called, How Immigration Reform Sustains a Progressive Majority.
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07/19/10 Editor's note: CNN reports on today's DC DREAM Act mobilization, in "Students Lobby to Become Citizens." America's Voice is a proud founding partner of the new DREAM Now letter series, which launched today, July 19th, 2010. We expect the campaign to educate the public and our leaders in Washington about the urgent need to legalize qualified immigrant youth, who are Americans in all but paperwork. Please get involved by cross-posting DREAM Now letters to your blog, sharing them on facebook, or tweeting about them and including "@BarackObama" and "#dreamletters." We can't do this alone, but we can raise our voices together now.
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07/19/10 If last week's House hearing on "The Ethical Imperative for Immigration Reform" is any indication, Republicans have chosen to ignore the conservative Evangelicals who support immigration reform and rely on part-time anti-immigrant "experts" instead. When Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel and Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops preached the consensus view of real clergy and faith communities across America that just and humane immigration reform is an urgent moral imperative, the Republican minority called up James R. Edwards, an "expert in everything" for the anti-immigrant "we think so" tank the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
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07/16/10 The "Model Sheriff" for Arizona's SB 1070, Joe Arpaio, has a record of failed crime fighting tactics, civil rights abuses and creating terror in the communities he's supposed to protect. Today, we here at America's Voice Education Fund released a new report detailing the long, disturbing and ineffective record of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ.
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07/16/10 What does Arizona law SB 1070 have to do with the lettuce crop in Yuma? At first glance, not a lot. But when the harvest season for lettuce and other vegetables comes around in November, that could change. If SB 1070 is implemented, many farmworkers without legal immigration status—or with it—could decide not to go to Arizona out of fear, causing growers to face a shortage of field hands. This, in turn, would affect the amount of vegetables that can be harvested, and ultimately their prices to consumers.
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07/15/10 At a time in which the Arizona GOP has made it acceptable for American citizens to go on witch-hunts for undocumented immigrants (i.e. suing police if they don't profile people based on shoes, accents, and skin color), comes this highly disturbing story out of Utah. The New York Times' Kirk Johnson reports, in "'Immigrant' List Sets Off Fears:" A list of 1,300 Utah residents described as illegal immigrants has sown fear among some Hispanics here, and prompted an investigation into its origins and dissemination.
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07/15/10 Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's notorious anti-immigrant law, is set to go into effect on July 29. With days left to go, Organizers are in a race against the clock to minimize the bill's impact on immigrant communities. Meanwhile, legal experts are examining the strategy behind a federal Department of Justice suit recently lobbed against the Arizona law, and other immigrant rights supporters continue to pressure the state via boycott. All of these acts are contributing to a tumultuous fight that's escalating by the day.
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07/15/10 Today a federal judge in Phoenix, AZ will begin to hear arguments from both sides in one of the lawsuits against SB 1070 -- but the damage from the law is already being done, as a list in Utah that claims to name 13,000 undocumented immigrants continues to terrorize the Latino community and Hispanics across the country tell a pollster that the atmosphere of fear has made immigration a top issue for them come November.
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