Archive: Unite Arizona In The News
Jul 7, 2010
CNN
The Justice Department on Tuesday weighed in on one of the most explosive issues in American politics, filing a lawsuit to overturn a tough new Arizona immigration law that has sharply divided people along partisan, ideological and ethnic lines.
Jul 6, 2010
The formal compliant for The United States of America, Plaintiff vs The State of Arizona: and Janice K. Brewer, GOvernor of the State of Arizona, in her Official Capacity.
Jun 16, 2010
CNN
A proposed Arizona law would deny birth certificates to children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents. The bill comes on the heels of Arizona passing the nation's toughest immigration law.
Jun 6, 2010
Univision
La Conferencia de Alcaldes de Estados Unidos aprobó a viva voz sendas resoluciones que condenan la ley SB1070 que criminaliza a los indocumentados en Arizona y piden que el Congreso apruebe una reforma migratoria integral.
Jun 4, 2010
AZ Capitol Times
Arizona’s new immigration law has yet to take effect, but Sen. Russell Pearce has already moved on to the next step in his quest to rid Arizona of illegal immigrants: deny birth certificates to children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents.
Jun 4, 2010
AZ Capitol Times
Daniel was 6 years old when his mother sneaked him and his two sisters into the United States from Mexico. He later graduated from the Arizona public school system and earned two degrees from Arizona State University – one in political science, the other in literature. But the harsh reality of his status as an illegal immigrant broadsided his dream of becoming a lawyer.
May 29, 2010
CNN
They came from Los Angeles and San Diego, and Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Chicago, Seattle and, of course, Arizona -- a river of humanity flooding the Phoenix streets to protest the state's controversial immigration law.
May 29, 2010
Univision
Miles de activistas provenientes de todo el país se dieron cita en la capital de Arizona este sábado para protestar contra la ley SB 1070 y pedirle a la gobernadora Jan Brewer que la vete por tratarse, dijeron los organizadores, de una legislación que viola los derechos civiles de cientos de miles de inmigrantes y fomenta al racismo.
May 28, 2010
CNN
The Justice Department Friday dispatched an assistant attorney general and other key officials to meet with top Arizona officals to emphasize federal reservations about the state's recently-passed immigration law.
May 27, 2010
The Washington Post
Arizona's new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state's and the nation's largest cities said Wednesday.
May 19, 2010
Mercury News
Berkeley has become the latest California city to boycott Arizona in response to the state's new law targeting illegal immigration.
May 17, 2010
The Seattle Times
The Seattle City Council approved the Arizona-boycott resolution 7-0 Monday afternoon. It calls for comprehensive immigration reform, and denounces the Arizona law.
May 17, 2010
Austin News
In a unanimous decision, the Austin City Council passed a ban Thursday morning on travel to and business with Arizona in protest of a new immigration law in that state.
May 17, 2010
MALDEF - Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
MALDEF and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit today in a federal court in Phoenix challenging Arizona’s new law requiring police to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are not authorized to be in the U.S. The extreme law, the coalition charged, invites the racial profiling of people of color, violates the First Amendment and interferes with federal law.
May 15, 2010
The Arizona Republic
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin defended Arizona's new immigration law Saturday and announced the launch of a website to inform Americans about border security.
May 14, 2010
The Washington Post
At least we don't have to pretend anymore. Arizona's passing of that mean-spirited immigration law wasn't about high-minded principle or the need to maintain public order. Apparently, it was all about putting Latinos in their place.
May 13, 2010
CNN
Fresh on the heels of a new immigration law that has led to calls to boycott her state, Arizona's governor has signed a bill banning ethnic studies classes that "promote resentment" of other racial groups.
May 13, 2010
The AFT - A Union of Professionals
The executive council of the American Federation of Teachers on Thursday unanimously condemned Arizona’s recent immigration law that allows authorities to stop a person and demand proof of immigration status on the basis of “reasonable suspicion” that he or she is not authorized to be in the country.
May 13, 2010
Dallas News
More than two dozen North Texas residents are headed for Arizona to join protests against that state's new immigration law.
May 13, 2010
KVIA - ABC 7
They came by the busload. Demonstrators from Dallas and Odessa protesting Arizona's new immigration law stopped in El Paso Thursday evening to pick up a few of their Sun City friends.