Anti-anti immigration: Principles to make migration work

By Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco, Originally posted on Huffington Post The most comprehensive overview of illegal immigration in the United States since the economic crisis began its downward spiral concludes that the flow of unauthorized immigrants into the country has significantly...

September 8th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Latinos | Read More

A Movement Rises in Arizona

Three months ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law the notorious SB 1070, a bill that put her state at the forefront of a movement to intensify the criminalization of undocumented immigrants. Since then, activists have responded through legal challenges, political lobbying, grassroots organizing...

July 31st, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

Judge weakens SB 1070, puts on hold law’s punching effects aimed at immigrants in Arizona

DISRUPTED EFFECT At least temporarily, SB 1070 is loosing its punching effects until the law has its day in court. Photo by Eduardo Barraza/Barriozona Ruling does not eliminate the entire SB 1070 law, rather prevents its most damaging provisions. Phoenix, Arizona, July 28, 2010 – As a threatening...

July 29th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

The fight against SB1070

By now you’ve heard of Arizona’s recently passed law, set to take effect in a little over a week, that will give local law enforcement officers in the state the power to enforce federal immigration law. By authorizing police to look into a suspect’s immigration status as well as his...

July 20th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Politics, Racial Equity | Read More

Closing the educational gap

Latino families have the highest workplace participation rates in the country. In most recent years, they have worked more hours per week than other Americans. Their median family income is higher than that of Black families, but only because they tend to have more adults working in each household. The...

July 8th, 2010 | Education, Featured, Immigration, Organizing Latino Immigrants for Social Justice, Politics, Racial Equity, Talk About Race, US | Read More

Legal battles pile up against Arizona’s SB 1070 implementation

Phoenix, Arizona – As Arizona prepares to begin enforcing what has been called its most radical immigration-related law, the legal battle to prevent its implementation on July 29 is also in full motion. Today, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block Arizona’s law. The lawsuit...

July 7th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

Mexico and the U.S.

How would you describe the state of the relationship between Mexico and the United States? On the latest edition of Destination Casa Blanca, a group of area experts described it as pretty good. Sure, there are bound to be some problems when countries share a nearly 2000-mile border, and one has a...

June 29th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

Thousands defy heat, walk winding route to protest SB 1070 in Phoenix

Thousands of people marched from Steele Indian School Park to the State Capitol. The march took place exactly two months before SB 1070 in implemented, and more actions against it are expected in the next 60 days. Marches and protests in Arizona have been the rule rather than the exception. In 2006,...

June 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

D for determined

THE PASSING OF ARIZONA’S SB 1070 stirs up an already simmering pot of cultural conflict, just as a steady beat of enforcement rhetoric and punitive fearful talk about Mexicans lends itself to increased tension and eventually, violence. Democratic politicians and advocacy groups don’t help matters,...

May 24th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

Done right, immigration reform will boost the U.S. economy

By Victor Corral, Program Manager, Insight Center for Community Economic Development (photo credit: celikins) The U.S. economy needs immigrants. According to the Center for American Progress, if we passed immigration reform that included legalization, there would be an estimated $1.5 trillion boost...

May 11th, 2010 | Economics, Immigration | Read More

Bud Selig: The choice is yours

In the wake of the passage of Arizona’s anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070, Major League Baseball has been under an increasingly hot spotlight. Boycotts and protests have been called against MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...

May 4th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration, Sports | Read More

Not just Arizona: Immigration enforcement out of control on federal level

While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it. One example of the out of control federal...

April 30th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More

News With Nezua | El Arpaio Alacrán

A LOTERIA STYLED TRIBUTE to the man who spearheaded the hostile and persecutory racist vibe spreading further and deeper over the state of Arizona every day: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. News With Nezua | El Arpaio Alacrán from nezua on Vimeo. DURING my break of two weeks from the online desktop world, SB ...

April 29th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

Arizona immigration law is problematic [Video]

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University talks about the Arizona immigration law and how it is intrusive and un-American. New policy, he says, must be looked at in a humane way – accepting people who come into our country as assets, not “drains.”

April 29th, 2010 | Featured, Immigration | Read More