Welcome to Arizona, help where the only thing worse than the fear and propaganda perpetuated by a government gone wild is what people with the temerity to have been born with dark skin must endure accordingly. Arizona has thrown itself into the teeth of an immigration debate that divides and angers as much as any in the country. Between the…
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In the eyes of immigrant activists, the immigration plan recently leaked from the Obama White House falls short of even the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act, signed by Ronald Reagan, which granted amnesty to more than three million undocumented immigrants. Unlike the current proposals under discussion, Regan’s plan did not create separate p…
Below are downloadable sample templates to be used to pass resolutions supporting immigration reform and calling for a moratorium on deportations at the local level. The versions are the same except that the one on the left also includes language to explore local options to limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests that target people…
They trim trees, mow lawns, find care for the elderly, clean up and rebuild after hurricanes and floods — and they defend the Constitution, too. Immigrant day laborers, who are so often the targets of local laws meant to sweep them off street corners, keep battling in court to defend their right to seek work, and they keep winning. On Monday, a t
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday on the side of day laborers seeking work in Arizona, here upholding an injunction that bars the state from enforcing part of its immigration law that prohibits motorists from stopping traffic to pick up workers. In the unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Rosa Vasquez shifted from side to side on a broad cement overpass above a highway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, order one recent cold and bright Wednesday afternoon. She accepted a flyer for an upcoming scaffolding training session and said she would consider attending the meeting. Eight women huddled in winter jackets nearby did not look up, standing
Arizona’s crudely drafted and unconstitutional immigration law, already battered in its journey through the federal courts, had yet another setback today. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, ruled that its provisions forbidding day laborers to look for work violate the First Amendment.