Showing posts with label Arizona Immigration Bill 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arizona Immigration Bill 2010. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

In Spanish: Arizona loses money from its anti-immigration stance


Al estado de Arizona le saldrá cara la ley antiinmigrante. Al menos es lo que se lee con los primeros resultados del Censo 2010, según el analista Michael P. McDonald, de la Universidad George Mason.


Lo primero que revelaron los primeros detalles del Censo fue un cambio en el mapa electoral. Estados como New York y Ohio perdieron escaños en la Cámara de Representantes, mientras que Texas ganó cuatro debido a los nuevos números. Pero las cifras del Censo también sirven para determinar el dinero que el gobierno federal distribuirá en los estados de la unión americana.


Ese detalle fue el que ignoraron los políticos de Arizona que apoyaron la ley que autorizó a la fuerza pública a detener a las personas indocumentadas o sospechosas de serlo. Según McDonald, los demógrafos del Censo proyectaron que la población del estado sería de 6,668,079 pero el número final fue 6,392,017. Se trata de 276,062 personas menos de las esperadas, el mayor déficit de todo el Censo.


McDonald plantea dos escenarios para explicar el error de cálculo: uno es que la población indocumentada se fue de Arizona, y el otro es que muchos temieron ser contados. Ahora Arizona dejará de recibir $775 millones en fondos federales.


Si bien los demógrafos del Censo pudieron calcular más de la cuenta, lo que está claro es los que nunca pensaron en las consecuencias de la ley antiinmigrante fueron la gobernadora Jan Brewer y otros políticos de Arizona.
Las opiniones expresadas aquí representan la opinión personal del autor y no representan en modo alguno las normas o los puntos de vista de ImpreMedia o sus propiedades.  link

Monday, December 13, 2010

In Spanish: Undocumented Leaving Arizona

Una familia residente en Phoenix, Arizona, vende sus muebles, antes de irse del estado. Aurelia Ventura/La Opinion

PHOENIX, Arizona (EFE).— Ante las pocas probabilidades de que se apruebe una reforma migratoria a nivel federal y el endurecimiento de las leyes estatales contra la inmigración ilegal, muchos indocumentados de Arizona se preparan para regresar a sus países de origen.

"La situación cada vez está más difícil, no solo porque es muy difícil encontrar trabajo, sino porque ya no puedes vivir con tranquilidad, siempre tienes en la mente el temor de ser arrestado por la policía", dijo Juan Martínez Ramos, inmigrante indocumentado de Michoacán.

La familia Martínez está vendiendo los muebles de su apartamento de dos habitaciones en Phoenix para juntar un poco de dinero. "El sueño americano se acabó para nosotros", dijo el padre de tres niños, todos ellos nacidos en Estados Unidos...mas

Thursday, November 18, 2010

In Spanish: Arizona Boycott Hurt Business

PHOENIX/AP - Un boicot contra Arizona a raíz de una polémica ley de inmigración le ha costado al estado más de 140 millones de dólares en negocios perdidos por la cancelación de reuniones y convenciones, según un nuevo informe difundido el hoy.

El análisis del impacto económico encargado por el Center for American Progress situó las pérdidas para la rama hotelera en alrededor de 45 millones de dólares durante los primeros cuatro meses después de la firma de la ley...mas





English:  A Different Story from the Los Angeles Times


In Arizona, boycott over immigration is less crippling than feared

The state has lost $141 million in lost meeting and convention business — disruptive but not devastating. One company lost a $3-million construction bid in Santa Monica...more

Friday, September 24, 2010

In Spanish: Sheriff Joe in Arizona



Phoenix/EFE -Las investigaciones y demandas legales contra el alguacil del condado Maricopa, Joe Arpaio, conocido por su postura en contra de la inmigración indocumentada, pueden poner en riesgo su carrera política....mas

Thursday, May 20, 2010

The Famous 4 in Arizona make the NYT

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Editorial

Courage in Arizona


Four young immigrant students risked everything on Monday when they sat down in Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson and refused to leave. They were urging passage of the Dream Act, a bill offering a citizenship path to illegal immigrants who, like them, were brought to the United States as children, too young to have willfully broken the law...link to complete NYT article

Monday, May 3, 2010

Its Bigger Than Arizona

The Tea Party, Birthers, and Illegitimacy - all lead to SB 1070 and other things...
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Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times - May 1, 2010

If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem

by Frank Rich  

...to label this development “Arizona’s folly” trivializes its import and reach. The more you examine the law’s provisions and proponents, the more you realize that it’s the latest and (so far) most vicious battle in a far broader movement that is not just about illegal immigrants — and that is steadily increasing its annexation of one of America’s two major political parties...link to complete NYT article

For Those Who Celebrate in Arizona



This image is from a 1930 Saturday Evening Post Cover, made in the days when Jim Crow was alive and well.  This romantic scene brings to mind what could be left of Arizona when all the brown people leave.  Some of those people who won't be picked up by the police will be celebrating - sort of like bringing back those chivalrous times of the Old South.

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Washington Post - May 3, 2010


by
Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary

Suspect thy neighbor

Arizona's new and far-reaching immigration law is bad on a lot of levels, including economic, social and legal , but it is also profoundly corrosive from a moral standpoint.
"Reasonable suspicion" as the pretext for law enforcement deciding whom to investigate relies on the idea that it is OK for our primary approach to our neighbor to be one based on distrust, before that neighbor has done anything that might be considered wrong. This is a disastrous attitude for a democracy to develop because it will erode the very cement that holds us together as a people.


This new Arizona immigration law is morally corrupting of who we should want to be as an Americans who live in an open society and cherish freedom and democracy. It's more like the closed and suspicious societies behind the "Iron Curtain" that we decried so much during the Cold War...link to complete WP article

Sunday, May 2, 2010

"Arizona immigration law: baseball players cry foul" by Richard Adams

London Guardian
Professional baseball players' union hits out at Arizona's immigration law for its 'negative impact' on America's pastime.

Opposition to Arizona's immigration law is springing up from all quarters, including an unlikely duo of Shakira and Florida's former Republican governor Jeb Bush, the brother of George W. And the players of America's national pastime, baseball, have added their opposition to the law that makes it a crime to be in the state of Arizona.


Already there have been calls – including on these pages by Dave Zirin – for spectators to boycott baseball games involving the Arizona Diamondbacks, in part because one of the team's owners, managing general partner Ken Kendrick, is a major donor to the local Republican party. And politicians outside Arizona have asked for Major League Baseball, the US pro sport's governing body, to shift the site of the 2011 All Star game from Phoenix.


Now the organisation that represents professional baseball players, the Major League Baseball Players Association, has consulted its members and made public its opposition to the law because of the "negative impact" it could have on international and home-grown baseballers.

The association points out that "hundreds of international players" and their families move through the state during spring training or to play against the Diamondbacks, and that they could be targeted by the law.



In the 2008 season, 27% of MLB players were Hispanic. In addition, the league now includes foreign players from all over the world, including Japan, Korea and Taiwan as well as Latin America – so that 28% of current MLB players were born outside the US.
The Arizona Diamondbacks management has sought to defuse the controversy, declaring: "[Ken] Kendrick personally opposes State Bill 1070," the law in question. The team also said: "The D-backs have never supported State Bill 1070 and have never taken political stances." link to complete Guardian article

Datos de Arizona



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ICE detiene a más de 500 inmigrantes


LA Opinion
Según las autoridades, los arrestados tienen récord delictivo previo
  • Isaías Alvarado/isaias.alvarado@laopinion.com |
  • 2010-05-01     



Presentar el resultado del mayor operativo emprendido por la Oficina de Control de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) contra extranjeros delincuentes en el sureste del país a pocas horas de que inicien marchas pro inmigrantes en distintas ciudades, fue tomado como una provocación por organizaciones comunitarias.
Autoridades federales anunciaron ayer el arresto de 596 inmigrantes con antecedentes penales en un operativo de tres días efectuado en Florida, Georgia, Carolina del Sur, Carolina del Norte, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee y Puerto Rico.Participaron 400 agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza, el Servicio de Alguaciles, así como fuerzas policíacas estatales y locales. Los detenidos, quienes han cumplido sus condenas, serán deportados a sus países. El anuncio se produce cuando ICE enfrenta fuertes críticas por su programa Comunidades Seguras, que identifica a indocumentados con antecedentes criminales en las cárceles a través de datos de los departamentos de Justicia (DOJ) y de Seguridad Interna (DHS). La Red Nacional de Jornaleros (NDLON), que interpuso una demanda contra dicho programa, afirma que esos arrestos son reflejo de la insensibilidad del gobierno de Obama y la incapacidad de los legisladores demócratas para emprender una reforma migratoria.
"No me sorprende que la administración Obama siga haciendo esto. Cada vez que hacen este tipo de acciones están creando las condiciones para que hallan más propuestas como la SB1070 (criminaliza a residentes sin papeles en Arizona)", reclamó Pablo Alvarado, presidente de NDLON. articulo completo
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Shakira une su voz a las de activistas y el alcalde de Phoenix contra la ley Arizona




Arturo Cano
Enviado
Periódico La Jornada
Viernes 30 de abril de 2010, p. 13
Phoenix, 29 de abril. Menudita, a sus casi 80 años, con blusa bordada y colorida, la dirigente del sindicato de jornaleros Dolores Huerta grita en inglés y en español: ¡La revolución comienza ahora mismo! ¡Sí se puede, sí se puede!, le responden decenas de manifestantes abajo del camión de la estación de radio La Campesina, fundada por César Chávez.
La revolución, al menos hoy, se mueve al ritmo de la belly dance. No soy experta en la Constitución, pero sé que existe por una razón, afirma Shakira, la reina del pop latino, que viene a Arizona a protestar contra la ley SB 1070, para reunirse con el alcalde de Phoenix, Phil Gordon, con los concejales y los jefes de la policía (no con Joe Arpaio, claro). articulo completo

Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Pariah State


Arizona branded America's pariah state for law that gives police right to stop and quiz people who LOOK like illegal migrants

By Sara Nelson
Last updated at 4:38 PM on 29th April 2010 - DAILY MAIL UK
  • Critics say the law opens the door to racial profiling
  • Arizona Sheriff refuses to uphold it
  • Pressure on President Obama to overhaul immigration laws
  • Colombian pop-star Shakira to campaign against it
  • AriZona Iced Tea reasserts NY credentials amid boycott fears
  • But Texas, Maryland, Utah, Georgia and Ohio could impose it
Arizona is fast becoming a pariah state amid calls to boycott the region over its crackdown on illegal immigrants.  Rallies protesting against the legislation are planned in more than 70 cities across the U.S. this weekend.  Critics say the law, which requires authorities to question people about their immigration status if there is 'reasonable suspicion' they are undocumented is unconstitutional, opens the door to racial profiling and is already seeing challenges to block it.  The backlash began on Friday after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the law, which makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally...

Friday, April 30, 2010

Baseball Putting Pressure on Arizona

If you were Augie Ojeda, would you take your family to Arizona?

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Seeking the best way to boycott Arizona over immigration law


Washington Post - Thursday, April 29, 2010


The question isn't whether to start an economic boycott to pressure Arizona to repeal its new immigration law. For me, that's a given.


The question is which products and services to blacklist to get results fastest, while minimizing needless harm.  Proposals abound already. Conventions. Tourism. Lettuce (a major Arizona product).

I vote to start with baseball, and I'm not alone. National and local Latino groups are actively discussing whether to urge people to boycott Arizona Diamondbacks games. One reason: Some of the team's owners are big donors to politicians who backed the bill. link to complete WPO article




 ...The baseball players’ union said it opposed the law and raised concerns about how foreign-born players, who make up about a quarter of major league rosters, and their families would be affected.
Half of the league’s 30 teams have spring training facilities in Arizona, and the All-Star Game is scheduled to be played at the Arizona Diamondbacks’ stadium in Phoenix next year...   link to complete NYT article




Toning Down Arizona? Impossible

It is impossible to take racial profiling out of the Arizona law.  Do you have brown hair?  Then you might want to stay out of Arizona.  The people who wrote the law know that Mexicans come in all colors... so anyone is suspect.

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latimes.com

Arizona lawmakers modify immigration law

Legislators ban race from being used by police as a factor to identify illegal immigrants. The initial law allowed the use of race to form the suspicion but said it could not be the sole factor.

By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times
12:04 PM PDT, April 30, 2010
Reporting from Phoenix
Arizona lawmakers late Thursday narrowed a controversial immigration law signed last week by the governor in hopes of quelling a national firestorm over suggestions it will force police to racially profile Latinos while looking for illegal immigrants link to complete article

Desde Los Angeles y D.F. - Arizona












La Opinion - Los Angeles

Crean un frente legal contra la Ley SB1070

La Jornada - Mexico D.F.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Watch C-Span to see what the Senators Say About Arizona

Senate hearing will probably be about Arizona's new immigation law

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Security hearing expected to turn to immigration

The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 27, 2010; 5:15 AM
WASHINGTON -- Senators are expected to question Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about the ramifications of Arizona's tough new immigration law when she appears for an oversight hearing. link to complete article

Arizona en Espanol



Articulos sobre Arizona y Imigracion - en Espanol

La Opinion  Los Angeles - 


La Jornada  Mexico City - 


27 abril 2010

To Heck with the U.S. Constitution Says Arizona Gov.

She may say that now, but the law will inevitably end up in court.  The problem is that Roberts is the Chief Justice, and we know which way he goes.

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April 26, 2010, 7:24 pm
Will Arizona’s Immigration Law Survive?
By THE EDITORS
Arizona borderDario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press On the Arizona-Mexico border. 
Arizona’s tough new immigration enforcement law, which was signed on Friday, will face many legal challenges before it goes into effect this summer. Some opponents of the law, the toughest in the nation, predict that it will suffer the same fate as California’s Proposition 187, which was passed in 1994 but never carried out because of legal setbacks and political opposition.
But California’s initiative was aimed at limiting illegal immigrants’ access to social services, while Arizona’s measure focuses on law enforcement: identifying, prosecuting and deporting undocumented immigrants.
What are the possible legal objections to Arizona’s measure, and are they valid or not? What effect will this prospective law have on the rest of the country and on national politics?

click here for link to complete NYT article

Monday, April 26, 2010

Boycotting Arizona

Quoted in the Houston Chronicle, the Governor of Arizona told her Attorney General that she was not worried about the U.S. Constitution, since most of her constituents wanted her to sign the bill into law.


Aren't elected officials obligated to adhere to the Constitution?  Maybe Arizona believes it is immune from the rule of law.
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Democrats lead calls to boycott Arizona over immigration bill
• Opposition to policy gathers momentum across US
• Critics say law will lead to victimisation of Latinos
Calls grew across the US today for a boycott of Arizona over its new law giving the police the most draconian powers in the country to deal with illegal immigration.  Democratic members of Congress, religious leaders and leftwing activists urged a boycott of hotels, convention centres and other economic targets in the state. At least one nationwide group has responded by cancelling a convention planned for the autumn. Scores of lorry drivers were reported in the US media to have threatened to stop carrying loads to and from the state.  The calls are being made spontaneously by individuals and an array of groups, but leftwing activists predict they will soon coalesce into a single campaign. link to complete article


link to video from France 24

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Fighting the Arizona Immigration Law




Washington Post
By Jonathan J. Cooper and Paul Davenport
Sunday, April 25, 2010
...The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund said it plans to challenge the law, which it said "launches Arizona into a spiral of pervasive fear, community distrust, increased crime and costly litigation, with nationwide repercussions."
William Sanchez, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders Legal Defense Fund, said his group is preparing a federal lawsuit against Arizona to stop the law from being applied. The group represents 30,000 evangelical churches nationwide, including 300 Latino pastors in Arizona... link

photo:  Gov. Janet Brewer