Immigrant Workers Face Firings Even Without Arizona’s Laws

New America Media, News Report, David Bacon, Posted: Apr 30, 2010

San Francisco might be pondering a boycott of Arizona because of its new immigration law but 475 immigrant janitors in San Francisco are facing firing after Homeland Security reviewed their Social Security records.


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Arizona Law Drives Chinese Job Seekers Away

World Journal, News Report, Posted: Apr 30, 2010

Crossing the Arizona-Mexico border is one of the most common routes Chinese immigrants take to enter the United States illegally, but according to the World Journal, some are planning to change their route.


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Arizona Law Spurs Conservatives to Push for Immigration Reform

New America Media, News Report, Elena Shore, Posted: Apr 30, 2010

Conservative leaders and clergy joined hands to denounce anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona, citing the impact it was having on their congregations and called on Republicans to reclaim immigration as an issue.


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First Legal Salvo Launched Against Arizona Immigration Law

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 29, 2010

A coalition of religious groups today commenced the legal battle against Arizona’s new controversial immigrant law, filing suit in the U.S. District Court to stop its implementation.


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Arizona's Alarm Bell for Immigration Reform

New America Media/Council on Foreign Relations, News Analysis, Edward Alden, Posted: Apr 29, 2010

To a greater extent than anywhere else in the country, Arizona's leadership]has become fixated on the idea that enforcement alone can solve the state's problems with illegal immigration. Yet Arizona itself has been a victim of that approach.


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Chinese Americans to Join Protest against Arizona Law

China Press, News Report, Posted: Apr 28, 2010


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Amnesty International: Arizona Law Violates Human Rights

El Universal, Amnesty International, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010

Amnesty International announced that it was "appalled" over SB 1070, Arizona's new law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, saying the legislation "will surely increase racial profiling, arbitrary arrests and detentions in the state."


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Mexican President Warns He Will Not Sit Idly By

El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the new Arizona law on Monday, saying it “opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination, and abuse in law enforcement,” El Universal reports.


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Mexico Issues Travel Warning for Arizona

El Universal, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010

The Mexican government issued a travel warning to its citizens who plan to visit, live or study in Arizona, after the state adopted a law that makes it a crime to be undocumented, El Universal reports.


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OAS: Arizona Law 'Discriminatory and Unacceptable'

La Jornada, News Report, Posted: Apr 27, 2010

The chair of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza, and the Ibero-American Secretary General Enrique Iglesias, condemned Arizona's new immigration law.


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Latinos, Blacks Join Fight for Civil Rights in Arizona

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Photos by Jose Muñoz, Posted: Apr 26, 2010

Arizonans from diverse communities, including black, Latino, Native American, Asian and gay activists, joined together Sunday to protest a new state law that makes it a crime to be undocumented. Leaders called the law a threat to the civil rights of all communities, and are planning to fight it using some of the strategies they learned from the civil rights movement.


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Arizona Anti-Immigration Law Puts Obama on the Spot

New America Media, Commentary, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Posted: Apr 25, 2010

Arizona officials claim they had to enact their controversial new law because the federal government has stalled on comprehensive immigration reform. This dumps the immigration reform issue squarely back in Obama’s lap. And it couldn’t come at a worse time for Obama.


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La Opinión Calls for National Boycott of Arizona

La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010

An editorial in the Los Angeles Spanish-language daily La Opinión calls for a national boycott of Arizona after the governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday.


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Mexico Warns of Retaliation for New Arizona Law

La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 24, 2010

The Mexican government warned that it would reconsider its relations with Arizona after the state's governor signed the nation's toughest bill on illegal immigration into law on Friday.


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Peace Fest for the Support of the Phoenix Community

PhoenixSoul, News Report, DaVaun Sanders, Posted: Apr 24, 2010

An estimated 3,500 people turned out for the "Stop the Violence" Peace Fest. The emphasis was to bring business owners, leaders, and members of the African American Community together for an afternoon filled with anti-violence performances. Attempting to bring out the awareness, that all races can live in peace and harmony.


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Arizona’s Law May Spark Pro-Immigrant Movement

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 23, 2010

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 today, making Arizona the first state in the nation to consider it a crime for a person to be an undocumented immigrant. But the passage of the Arizona law may also have ignited the pro-immigration reform movement.


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Statement by Governor Jan Brewer Signing Senate Bill 1070

New America Media, News Report, Jan Brewer, Posted: Apr 23, 2010

The bill I’m about to sign into law – Senate Bill 1070 – represents another tool for our state to use as we work to solve a crisis we did not create and the federal government has refused to fix …


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Police Chiefs Warn Arizona's Bill Will Make Communities Unsafe

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 22, 2010

Law enforcement officials from California to North Carolina are worried that the Arizona bill that would make it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant could soon spread to other states.


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McCain Supports Arizona's Anti-immigrant Law

La Opinión, News Report, Posted: Apr 20, 2010

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who co-authored an immigration reform bill with Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2005, called the new legislation approved in Arizona “a very important step forward,” La Opinión reports.


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Arizona ICE, Tea Parties Panic Immigrants

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 16, 2010

In what immigration authorities called the single largest operation to fight human smuggling in the country, ICE agents conducted actions in immigrant neighborhoods in Phoenix and Tuscon, spreading panic among residents. Tea Party rallies in Maricopa County offered anti-immigration rhetoric, adding to the climate of fear.


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Arizona Legislature Makes Being Undocumented a Crime

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández, Posted: Apr 14, 2010

Arizona is on track to become the first state in the nation to make it a misdemeanor for a person to be there without legal documents. The unsolved murder of a rancher near the border was used to build support for the bill.


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