It’s that time of year again when people gather in ballparks across the nation to watch their favorite teams play ball, but more than just scoring a homerun will be on the minds of many players in Arizona this summer. About 150 Latino rookies are taking part in the Arizona Rookie League this year. The […]
Neo-Nazi Militia Patrols Arizona Desert and States, “It will be ‘deadly’ for them to cross that border”
A leader of the Mesa chapter of the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States, the National Socialist Movement, decided to patrol a part of the Arizona desert near Casa Grande over the weekend against the wishes of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. The group of armed men led by J.T. Ready, known for his […]
Republicans Stuck Over Making Immigration Campaign Issue
Republicans are trying to delicately strike a balance for this Fall’s election as they try to look tough on the issue of immigration while not further alienating Latino voters. In the 2008 Presidential election, Barack Obama garnered nearly 70% of the Latino vote reversing trends over the past two election cycles that saw George W. […]
Nebraska City Passes Anti-Immigrant Measure
As reported yesterday in La Plaza , the city of Fremont, Nebraska was considering a local ordinance to make it illegal to hire or rent to an undocumented immigrant. The measure passed last night 57 to 43 percent. The new law was authored by a Republican candidate for Secretary of State in Kansas, Kris Kobach, who […]
Groups to Target Latino Voters for Turnout in Arizona
A coalition of Latino advocacy and immigration rights groups are launching an effort to register and turn out Latino voters in Arizona. The groups, which include Mi Familia Vota, Democracia USA, Border Action Network and Arizona Center for Empowerment, announced yesterday that their target is 50,000 Latino voters, […]
Arizona Law Model for Other States’ Actions
Anti-immigration activists and lawmakers are using the state of Arizona as an example in hopes of replicating the recently passed law, SB 1070, in their own jurisdictions. The town of Fremont, Nebraska, today, is voting on a local ordinance making it illegal to hire or rent property to an undocumented immigrant. Fremont, with a population […]
US Born Children Are Anti-Immigrants’ Next Target
In late May, La Plaza reported that on the heels of his success with passing SB 1070, Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce was setting his sights on a new target – the US born children of undocumented workers. https://www.latinovations.com/2010/05/24/arizona-lawmaker-now-targets-citizenship-rights/ Since that time, many national news outlets have picked up on Pearce’s efforts and those of […]
Clinton Indicated Feds to Sue Arizona
While on a Latin American trip, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a TV station in Quito, Ecuador that the Obama administration has decided to file suit against the state of Arizona for its recently passed, controversial anti-immigrant measure, SB 1070. Secretary Clinton’s comments drew fire from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who said, “If our […]
Low number of Minority Medical School Graduates Puts Underserved Communities at Risk
As the nation begins to put in place the procedures for implementing the recently passed health care overhaul legislation, as recent studies show, minority communities may once again be underserved. Although collectively, the Latino, American Indian and Black populations in the US total about thirty percent, only 8.7 percent of doctors in 2007 were from […]
Undocumented Workers Identifiable by “grooming habits” according to GOP lawmaker
In a statement on the floor of the House of Representatives on Monday, Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa defended Arizona’s new anti-immigration law and justified the need for profiling. A requirement that local law enforcement stop individuals if they have “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the country illegally is one of the […]
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