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Change.org Final Round Voting Jan. 5-15, 2009
Barack Obama said, “I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in your democracy again” Who wants to take the challenge and work for viable change in America? Here is a good beginning! The problem: Many American stude...
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas interfering with functions of Mexican Consulate in Phoenix
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas on Thursday lashed out at the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix for depositing money in the jail accounts of nine people arrested last June in an immigration raid at a valley water park. Thomas called the deposits ...
HUD - No basis for illegal immigrant mortgage foreclosure data
The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development says there is no basis to news reports that more than 5 million bad mortgages are held by illegal immigrants. A HUD spokesman said Thursday his agency has no data showing the number of illegal i...
Gustavo Arellano: My dad, the illegal immigrant
Millions of Americans point to Ellis Island as the place where their family was first introduced to the United States. Others trace their ancestry to ships that dropped anchor centuries ago in New England. Still more greeted Lady Liberty by way of ai...
Mexico, US find no al-Qaida links since 9/11
Hey people! We all know how the right wing loony toons have been using the terror/fear card to convince Americans of all the “terrorists” crossing the southern border and using that as an excuse to promote their nativist agenda. Some have...
A win for Isabel Garcia and First Amendment Rights
Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry has found that Pima County Public Defender Isabel Garcia didn’t violate any policy by protesting at a controversial event. Garcia was present at a protest over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’...
ADL’s new report on nativist extremism is out, and the winners are…
The Anti-Defamation League has a new report out on anti-immigration nutbars entitled, “Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream.” Naturally, AZ was well-represented, with Rascist Minuteman Chris Simcox and Rusty C...
Viagra Vigilantes claim “softer side”!
Vigilantes on U.S. border say they’re compassionate, even save illegal immigrants’ lives The “Viagra Vigilantes” aka The Minutemen want you to know they are humanitarians, and they can be quite persuasive. They say they are not vigil...
UPDATE - DOJ opens investigation into murder of Luis Ramirez
Previously, Mexico Trucker reported on the beating death of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. On Tuesday, Department of Justice (DOJ) Spokeswoman Jamie Hais announced that the FBI and the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the...
A Turning Point? - 3 Pennsylvania teens charged in immigrant’s death
Three white teens were charged today in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with...
