Only Immigration Reform will End SB1070
One day before Arizona's new tough immigration law was supposed to go into effect, a federal judge temporarily blocked some of its controversial provisions.
Do not show-me your papers
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday that halts major components of the Arizona SB1070 from taking effect Thursday — 90 days after Gov. Jan Brewer signed it into law.
Republicans Block Small Business Bill
30 July 2010
Efforts to provide relief to the nation's struggling small businesses stalled in the Senate Thursday, prompting a bitter round of finger-pointing on a measure that once had broad bipartisan support. The bill, which would create a $30 billion Treasury-backed loan facility and provide tax cuts for small businesses worth $12 billion over 10 years, failed to break a GOP-led filibuster on a 58-42 vote. For weeks, Republicans have pressed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to open the door for a series of amendments. But Democrats have balked, saying the amendments in question are not germane to the issue on the floor.
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Opinion: Victory in Arizona Immigration Lawsuit is Good for Democrats
30 July 2010
Ever since the Court handed President Obama's Justice Department a big victory by enjoining the enforcement of major provisions of the onerous Arizona "papers please" immigration law, there has been pundit commentary the decision will be bad for swing Democrats. Of course, that analysis ignores that the ruling came from a judge who — though appointed by President Clinton — was originally nominated by Arizona's Republican Senator Kyl who has praised her as a fair jurist. And the decision will also likely cause a number of moderate supporters of the bill around the country to rethink their positions.
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Opinion: Arizona Casts Obama as ‘Frenemy’ of SB-1070
30 July 2010
History teaches that victory has been achieved when the letter and spirit of a conflict are united in the resolution of that conflict. In the case of yesterday's injunction against SB-1070, Arizona's highly conflictive racial profiling law, the letter of the law was, at best, partially and temporarily halted, not defeated. Its spirit lives on in Arizona and throughout the country. Judge Bolton brought no resolution to the discrimination unleashed by the parts of still-discriminatory law that will take effect today. Far from celebrating the "victory" touted by some, today's marches and protests throughout the country are unified in delivering another message: that the work of defeating the spirit and letter of SB-1070 must and will continue in Arizona, in Washington and throughout the country.
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The ‘Dangerous’ Border: Actually One of America’s Safest Places
30 July 2010
When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona's new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main impetus behind the controversial legislation was, as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said when she signed it in April, "border-related violence and crime due to illegal immigration." The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation's safest corridors. According to the FBI, the four large U.S. cities (with populations of at least 500,000) with the lowest violent crime rates — San Diego, Phoenix and the Texas cities of El Paso and Austin — are all in border states.
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Obama Administration Considers Bypassing Congress on Immigration Reform
30 July 2010
The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large numbers of people in the country illegally. The ideas were outlined in an unusually frank draft memo prepared for Alejandro N. Mayorkas, director of the federal agency that handles immigration benefits, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS). The memo lists ways the government could grant permanent resident status to tens of thousands of people and delay the deportation of others, potentially indefinitely.
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121 groups ask feds to denounce, discard ‘Utah list’
30 July 2010
More than 100 civil-rights groups and leaders nationwide are demanding that federal immigration officials throw away the "Utah list" and vow publicly never to use anything like it for immigration enforcement. The groups — ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to Human Rights Watch — wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano complaining that the response to the list from Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been too tepid so far. They asked her to forcefully denounce the list of 1,300 illegal immigrants that was anonymously sent to law enforcement and the news media demanding that those listed be deported.
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