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Today the All-Star Game Plays on in Arizona
6:59 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Immigration|Phoenix|Sports · Comments Off
12 Jul 2011
Despite over a year of organizing efforts aiming to get it moved, today Phoenix, Arizona hosts the 82nd Annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The push, which included protests across the country, to get MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to move the game or at the very least say something about Arizona’s immigrant/racial profiling law SB 1070 and how it could impact players and spectators, was largely a failure. Meanwhile SB 1070 copycat laws have spread across the country and like the Arizona Senate Bill that started it all, most find themselves entangled in some sort of lawsuit.
Today, Unite Arizona (AZ), will be giving out white ribbons as a symbol of opposition to this law. Unite AZ will be outside Chase Field asking fans to don white ribbons in protest of SB 1070 and as a reminder to Commissioner Selig that baseball needs to exhibit leadership. Online, National Council of la Raza is running a twibbon campaign and you can edit your Twitter avatar to include the Unite AZ graphic. Additionally NCLR NCLR has changed its facebook profile for today and tomorrow and is asking friends and supporters to do the same.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Jail
6:38 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Phoenix · 4 Comments
14 Oct 2010
Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio (yup he’s still around) was trying to not fix the inhumane conditions inside the jails within his jurisdiction as ordered by a lower court’s ruling. The court ruled that jails in Maricopa County do not meet constitutional minimums when it comes to food quality and housing conditions for inmates on psychotropic drugs. Yesterday, The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s appeal of the 2008 U.S. District Court Judge Neil V. Wake’s decision.
Now Arpaio must end severe overcrowding and ensure all detainees receive necessary medical and mental health care, be given uninterrupted access to all medications prescribed by correctional medical staff, be given access to exercise and to sinks, toilets, toilet paper and soap and be served food that meets or exceeds the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines. Basically, the judge ordered that yes Sheriff Joe, the incarcerated are humans and need to be treated as such.
The ACLU proved at the 2008 trial that the sheriff routinely abused pre-trial detainees at Maricopa County Jail by feeding them moldy bread, rotten fruit and other contaminated food, housing them in cells so hot as to endanger their health, denying them care for serious medical and mental health needs and keeping them packed as tightly as sardines in holding cells for days at a time during intake.
Via / AZ Central and the ACLU
Image Via / SPLC
Orgs & Feds in Court Today Against SB1070
7:36 am By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Justice|Phoenix · 4 Comments
22 Jul 2010Today, at 10 am EST, organizations including the ACLU, MALDEF, NAACP, National Immigration Law Center (NILC), Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) – a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice – ACLU of Arizona, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) will appear in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, arguing that SB1070 should not go into effect while it is being fought against in the courts.
Later today, the federal government will make the same argument in the same court.
U.S. Department of Justice Issues Legal Challenge Against Arizona’s SB1070
8:17 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|Phoenix|Politics · 26 Comments
7 Jul 2010Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s SB1070 before it officially takes effect at the end of this month.
The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Phoenix, including a request for a preliminary injunction, questioning the constitutionality of the law because it interferes with federal immigration policy and enforcement. The possibility of racial/ethnic profiling is mentioned but to be clear, the law is being challenged on the grounds that the state is overstepping it’s boundaries and not allowing the Feds to pursue their own enforcement heavy immigration policy. Read the language from the official release:
“Arizonans are understandably frustrated with illegal immigration, and the federal government has a responsibility to comprehensively address those concerns,” Attorney General Holder said. “But diverting federal resources away from dangerous aliens such as terrorism suspects and aliens with criminal records will impact the entire country’s safety. Setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility. Seeking to address the issue through a patchwork of state laws will only create more problems than it solves.”
“With the strong support of state and local law enforcement, I vetoed several similar pieces of legislation as Governor of Arizona because they would have diverted critical law enforcement resources from the most serious threats to public safety and undermined the vital trust between local jurisdictions and the communities they serve,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. “We are actively working with members of Congress from both parties to comprehensively reform our immigration system at the federal level because this challenge cannot be solved by a patchwork of inconsistent state laws, of which this is one. While this bipartisan effort to reform our immigration system progresses, the Department of Homeland Security will continue to enforce the laws on the books by enhancing border security and removing criminal aliens from this country.”
National Mayor’s Meeting Approves Resolutions Against SB1070 But….
6:55 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|Phoenix|Politics · 1 Comment
15 Jun 2010The United States Conference of Mayors closes it’s annual gathering in Oklahoma City today. The conference, which includes Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Phoenix, AZ Mayor Phil Gordon, passed a resolution opposing Arizona’s SB1070 and copycat legislation and supporting legal challenges to the law, while calling for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
It should be noted that their the Conference’s call for CIR is qualified by five principles, passed in 1999, that they feel reform must contain. The first principle is increased border security and enforcement.
Latino and Indigenous Science Organization Rejects Arizona as a Conference Choice
8:58 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · arizona|Immigration|Phoenix|science · 6 Comments
10 May 2010
SACNAS, a society of scientists dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists, formally withdrew Phoenix from consideration as a conference location. In a letter to Governor Brewer, the organization stated that SB1070 would guarantee attendees would be subject to harassment. SACNAS estimates that this represents a loss of in revenue to the local economy of $3 million.
From the organization’s press release:
The leadership of SACNAS strongly believes the immigration law SB1070 will make the state inhospitable to people of color, especially Hispanics,” says society president, Jose Dolores Garcia, PhD. “We have been seriously considering Phoenix as a site for our conference in 2012. However, we feel the passage of this law and the policies of Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio will lead to racial profiling of our students and faculty.
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