One can only hope the state of Arizona quickly spirals into bankruptcy and unemployment soars to 50% or more after last nights legislative session gave nativist and racist Senate President Russell Pearce all the anti-Mexican legislation that he has had wet dreams about for years, yet hasn’t been able to get passed. What are we referring to? A slew of anti Mexican legislation designed to penalize anyone in Arizona illegally and in some cases, legally, for breathing while brown.
The Republican Party is in disarray after its loss to Barack Obama, and on the sidelines white nationalists are skillfully preparing political attacks on the new American president. Since the weeks leading up to the most significant elections ever to take place in the United States, federal law enforcement agencies, the media and human rights organizations have paid close attention to threats made against Presidential-Elect Barack Obama. Some of these threats have been made by individuals with ties to the neo-Nazi movement in the United States. During the Democratic National Convention in August police in Denver, Colorado detained three individuals after a weapon, drugs and wigs were discovered in their possession. The individuals, eventually released, were described as white supremacists. MORE
That is the question posed by our friend the Damned Mexican on his excellent site. We had a chance to make a difference by urging Williamson County Commissioners not to renew the contract with CCA operators of the gulag like Hutto Family Detention Center. Sadly, hip pocket politics won out over common sense. Texas Civil Rights Review, has an opinion piece on their site on the subject. As they said, Putting non-criminal families, including little children, in prison for infractions comparable to running a stop sign is immoral and un-American. Imprisoning people charged with no crime, while they await decision re. applications for citizenship and asylum, is NOT effective immigration policy, does NOT secure our borders, and has NOTHING to MORE
A couple of weeks ago, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) held a press conference to lay out their agenda to throw a monkey wrench into the new administration’s attempt at a comprehensive overhaul package. The publisher at Migra Matters decided to “take one for the team”, held his nose and listened in to the discussion. As he so adroitly puts it, Little did I know that listening to the world according to FAIR President, Dan Stein, would be like falling down a rabbit hole where black is white and white is black. Backed up by media spokesman, Ira Melman, and Executive director, Julie Kirchner, Stein managed in his 45min presentation to rewrite recent history, rehash long-discredited talking points, ignore MORE
by Rev. David L. Ostendorf When I first journeyed to Suffolk County eight years ago to work with religious, civic, and immigrant rights groups facing growing anti-immigrant activity stoked by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, I was stunned to witness the depth of anger and hostility that the group’s organizer had helped unleash. It all started “respectably” enough. But the attempt in 2000 by neo-Nazis to kill two Mexican workers was a harbinger of where growing, unchecked anti-immigrant fever and fervor could go; other violence followed. Now, an Ecuadoran immigrant, is dead at the hands of area youth who reportedly set out to beat up “some Mexicans,” bringing the tragedy of Suffolk County to its inevitable end. In those early MORE
