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Wednesday September 26, 2012
In just the latest twist in what’s turning into a virtual immigration roller coaster, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused yesterday a request to suspend Arizona’s now-infamous SB1070 law—the one “hearted” by Congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer. Read More »
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Monday July 23, 2012
The ACLU of Arizona released obtained thousands of emails from the office of recalled Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce, related to the controversial Arizona immigration law SB-1070. While many, including the Department of Justice under President Obama, have tried to divorce issues of racial profiling from discussion of the bill’s merits and legality, Pearce’s emails reveal a deep-seated racial motivation for his authorship of Arizona’s immigration law. Read More »
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Monday June 25, 2012
By Denyse Sabagh
Denyse Sabagh is a member of AAI’s Board of Governors, a partner at Duane Morris, and head of the firm’s Immigration Practice Group. She is also former national president and general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and a former member of the ABA’s Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. Read More »
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Monday June 25, 2012
The decision today is a tough loss in legal efforts to completely strike down SB 1070, but the questions the law poses about our society and the need for comprehensive immigration reform remain unanswered. The legal battle may have codified Arizona’s immigration system, but the deciding factor which will weigh on the nation’s conscience going forward as we consider what to do about immigration reform will not be the legality of current laws in place, but whether we as a nation believe that they are right. Read More »
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Friday April 27, 2012
This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on an issue that impacts all Americans – and the very notion of what an American is. Nine people are charged with deciding what’s more important: ascertaining an individual’s citizenship status or preserving America’s identity as a country whose immigrants have made it the greatest nation in the world. Read More »
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Thursday April 26, 2012
By Danielle Malaty
A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday that they will most likely uphold at least a portion of Arizona's controversial immigration law, despite the fact that four provisions of the law were blocked by a federal appeals court last year. Read More »
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Wednesday April 25, 2012
Today, the Justices of the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the federal challenge to Arizona’s controversial state-based immigration law, SB 1070. The primary question presented to the Supreme Court is whether federal immigration laws preclude Arizona’s efforts at cooperative law enforcement and preempt the provisions in SB 1070. Read More »
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Thursday April 05, 2012
By Danielle Malaty
Arizona's notoriously controversial immigration law has captured the attention of minority communities across the country, and will certainly have a dramatic ripple effect on the way law enforcement agents interact with Arab American and American Muslim communities. Read More »
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Tuesday February 14, 2012
It’s official. Two Arab Americans will face off for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s old congressional seat. Arizona State Senator Paula Aboud confirmed yesterday that she will run for office in Arizona’s newly redrawn District 2. Two weeks earlier, State Representative Matt Heinz announced that he would pursue the same office. The soon-to-be-formed District 2 will contain much of Giffords’s former district 8, which, due to her recent retirement, is now vacant. Neither Aboud nor Heinz (both Democrats) will run in the special election which is set for June 12. Both Candidates will leave former Giffords aide Ron Barber unchallenged for the Democratic ticket in the special election. It is unclear whether Barber will run for a full term, come November. Currently, Aboud and Heinz are the only two officially declared candidates running for Giffords’s seat in November. Read More »
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Tuesday July 26, 2011
California Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) signed into law Assembly Bill 130, the California DREAM Act yesterday. The Los Angeles Times reports that AB 130 will provide “access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students.” Regarding the political implications of California’s Dream Act, the Times explains that the Governor’s signature on Bill 130 is a “gesture of goodwill toward Latino voters, who helped elect him in large numbers last fall. Legislation providing education funding to undocumented students has been a top priority for many Latino groups, which have found many of their efforts thwarted so far at the federal level.” Read More »
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Friday June 10, 2011
Things are not looking good for comprehensive immigration reform, not to mention the DREAM Act. Yesterday, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed into law a new - and probably unconstitutional - immigration law. HB 56, which will take effect on September 1st contains many provisions that surpass even those of Arizona's controversial SB 1070 in its racist undertones and its draconian enforcement measures. Just to refresh your memory, SB 1070 grants law enforcement officials the right to pursue people they suspect might be in the country illegally. If the individual in question is unable to produce documentation, they are arrested and possibly deported. Sound bad? Alabama’s law is far worse. Read More »
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Monday May 02, 2011
Representative Kavanagh apologized for his “poorly conceived” bill during a meeting with the Sodhi family and the Sikh American community. Read More »
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Tuesday April 12, 2011
Today from 12pm to 1:30 pm, the Center For American Progress (CAP) will convene a panel of experts entitled: Choosing our words Carefully: The Consequences of Heated Rhetoric to address the rise in xenophobic and bigoted rhetoric in politics and its affect on various ethnic and religious communities throughout the country. Citing the assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, the panel will also assess how heated political discourse has the potential to encourage irascible and discontent individuals to violence. This event will be live-streamed and we encourage you to tune in. AAI president Jim Zogby is among the featured panelists. Read More »
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Wednesday March 30, 2011
This afternoon, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing entitled “Securing the Border: Building on the Progress Made.” The hearing will be held at 2:30pm in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in room 342. There are three witnesses scheduled to testify: Read More »
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Wednesday August 04, 2010
Those behind SB 1070 are not going to wait around for the federal government to get their act together. Arizona State Representative Russell Pearce, a sponsor of SB 1070, has recently expressed interest in introducing legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona to parents who are not legally in the U.S. That's right; he is attempting to deny them the American citizenship accorded to them by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Read More »
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Thursday July 29, 2010
With enforcement of Arizona's notorious immigration law, SB 1070, set to begin today, a Phoenix district court judge ruled yesterday to put the law on hold. Read More »
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Wednesday July 21, 2010
On July 6, the Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizona’s passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court. Read More »
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