Tag Archives: Arizona

Mar 26 0 comments
The Media Consortium

Big Business Dictates Immigration Policy—At Workers’ Expense

Media Con­sor­tium | Huff­in­g­ton Post Arizona’s busi­ness lead­ers, frus­trated by the deep finan­cial fall­out of increas­ingly rad­i­cal immi­gra­tion pro­pos­als, suc­cess­fully swayed state law­mak­ers into defeat­ing five extrem­ist anti-immigrant bills. New Amer­ica Media’s Vale­ria Fer­nán­dez report­sthat 60 exec­u­tives from the likes of Wells­Fargo bank and U.S. Air­ways penned an open let­ter to state Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Rus­sell Pearce […]

Feb 25 0 comments
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Sweeping AZ Immigration Bills Target Undocumented Youth

Media Con­sor­tium | Huff­in­g­ton Post The Ari­zona state Sen­ate moved for­ward with two con­tro­ver­sial mea­sures this week that threaten to mar­gin­al­ize undoc­u­mented youth to an unprece­dented degree. An anti-birthright cit­i­zen­ship bill, which ini­tially failed to muster the votes nec­es­sary to pro­ceed, was finally approved Tues­day after Sen­ate Pres­i­dent Rus­sell Pearce ® shrewdly reas­signed it to a […]

Feb 17 0 comments
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Minutemen Leader Convicted of Racially Motivated Murders

Media Con­sor­tium | Huff­in­g­ton Post Days after Ari­zona Gov­er­nor Jan Brewer and Attor­ney Gen­eral Tom Horne filed suit against the fed­eral gov­ern­ment for allegedly fail­ing to pro­tect the state from a Mex­i­can “inva­sion,” the high-profile mur­der con­vic­tion of a Min­ute­men bor­der vig­i­lante under­scores the state’s mis­guided bor­der pri­or­i­ties. Ear­lier this week, a jury found Shawna Forde–leader […]

Feb 17 0 comments
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Anti-Immigrant Bills Faltering, Even in Arizona

Media Con­sor­tium After orches­trat­ing a divi­sive national cam­paign to deny cit­i­zen­ship to the U.S.-born chil­dren of undoc­u­mented immi­grants, Ari­zona leg­is­la­tors watched their own anti-birthright cit­i­zen­ship bill floun­der in the state Sen­ate this week. Col­or­Lines’ Jami­lah King reports that Sen­ate bill 1309—introduced with con­sid­er­able fan­fare only two weeks ago—met sig­nif­i­cant oppo­si­tion dur­ing its first Sen­ate hear­ing on […]