"Protesters invaded a busy intersection.... “We won a slight battle in Arizona, we’ve got to continue with the war’’
Related: Globe Gives Immigration Terrorist Megaphone
I always wondered why terrorist got so much from the MSM.
"Ariz. braces for immigration law; Protests planned when statute takes effect tomorrow" by Jonathan J. Cooper and Michelle Price, Associated Press | July 28, 2010
PHOENIX — The sheriff of Arizona’s most populous county is making room in a vast outdoor jail and determined to round up illegal immigrants to fill it. Police from the US-Mexico border to the Grand Canyon are getting last-minute training. And protests and marches are planned throughout Phoenix.
Arizona’s new immigration law takes effect tomorrow, creating a potentially volatile mix of police, illegal immigrants, and thousands of activists, many planning to show up without identification as a show of solidarity.
At least one group plans to block access to federal offices, daring officers to ask them their immigration status.
“Our message for that day is: ‘Don’t comply, don’t buy,’ ’’ said activist Liz Hourican, whose group, CodePink, plans to block the driveway for immigration offices in downtown Phoenix....
Oh, no, not the controlled-opposition of CodePink!
Related: Boston Sunday Globe Censorship: Colorblind Globe
No, they see it. They use it to divide us.
Also see: 3 teens charged in videotaped slaying of immigrant in N.Y.
"US judge bars Arizona officers from ID checks on immigrants; Some parts of new law take effect today" by Randal C. Archibold, New York Times | July 29, 2010
PHOENIX — A federal judge yesterday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had inflamed a national debate....
US District Court Judge Susan Bolton’s decision was not her final word on the case. In granting the injunction, she simply indicated that the Justice Department is likely, but not certain, to prevail on those points at a later trial in federal court. She made no ruling on the six other suits that challenged the law....
Then the chop-chop came:
Bolton's ruling seemed destined to fuel even more rhetoric on the campaign trail....
Legal analysts predict the case is bound for the United States Supreme Court....
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"Arizona county deported 26,146; Action taken via federal program" by Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press | July 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — Officers from a single Arizona county helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the United States through a federal-local partnership program that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems.
Statistics obtained by the Associated Press show that the Maricopa County sheriff’s office was responsible for the deportation or forced departure of 26,146 immigrants since 2007.
That is about a quarter of the national total of 115,841 sent out of the United States by officers in 64 law enforcement agencies deputized to help enforce immigration laws, some since 2006, under the so-called 287(g) program.
The tens of thousands of immigrant arrests show local officials already have a significant amount of authority to enforce immigration laws and help remove illegal immigrants from the country....
Related: Illegals Already Have Amnesty
The federal government already is under fire, accused of doing a poor job of keeping watch on local officers enforcing immigration laws and ensuring safeguards for protecting civil rights are in place.
They worry more about illegals' civil rights (how can you have civil rights when you are not a citizen; human rights, yeah) than yours, American.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the top law officer among all those deputized. He is under federal investigation on allegations of civil rights violations, which he denies.
The government had argued that the Arizona law usurps its authority....
Well, if you exercised it they would not have to resort to such measures.
"Amid protests, Arizona appeals ruling on state immigration law; 50 demonstrators arrested in clash at US courthouse" by Bob Christie, Associated Press | July 30, 2010
PHOENIX — Arizona asked an appeals court yesterday to lift a judge’s order blocking most of the state’s immigration law as the capital city filled with protesters, including about 50 who were arrested for confronting officers in riot gear.
If there are illegals protesting the agenda-pushing MSM will find them.
Governor Jan Brewer called Wednesday’s decision by US District Judge Susan Bolton to block some aspects of the law “a bump in the road,’’ and the state appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, yesterday.
Hundreds of protesters began marching at dawn, gathering in front of the federal courthouse where Bolton issued her ruling. They marched on to the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made a crackdown on illegal immigration one of his signature issues.
At least 23 demonstrators were arrested after blocking the entrance and beating on the large steel doors leading to the Maricopa County jail in downtown Phoenix. Sheriff’s deputies in riot gear opened the doors and waded into the crowd, hauling off those who didn’t move.
The CodePink ladies?
Dozens of others were arrested throughout the day while trying to cross a police line, entering closed-off areas, or sitting in the street and refusing to leave. Former state senator Alfredo Gutierrez, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2002, was among them. A photographer for the Arizona Republic also was detained....
Arizona is the nation’s epicenter of illegal immigration, with more than 400,000 undocumented residents. The state’s border with Mexico is awash with smugglers who funnel narcotics and immigrants throughout the United States, and supporters of the new law say the influx of illegal immigrants drains vast sums of money from hospitals, education, and other services.
In Tucson, 50 to 100 people gathered at a downtown street corner. One group protested the law while a second supported it. Linda Galindo, Tucson police spokeswoman, said one man was arrested for threatening people in the other group.
In Los Angeles, about 200 protesters invaded a busy intersection west of downtown. Police waited more than three hours before declaring it an unlawful assembly. Most of the demonstrators left peacefully, but about a dozen, linked together with plastic pipes and chains, lay in the street in a circle as an act of civil disobedience. Officer Bruce Borihanh said police were cutting the protesters’ chains and taking them away to be booked for failure to disperse.
In New York City, about 300 immigrant advocates gathered near the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan.
Councilman Jumaane Williams, a first-generation Caribbean-American, told the crowd: “We won a slight battle in Arizona, we’ve got to continue with the war.’’
I have not described the issue in that way.
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Oh, yeah, this for those illegals being exploited by the United States government:
"Immigrant advocates rap fingerprint plan" by Associated Press | July 27, 2010
DENVER — The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who say the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.
The program has gotten less attention than Arizona’s new immigration law, but it may end up having a bigger impact because of its potential to round up and deport so many immigrants nationwide.
And WHO is RESPONSIBLE for THAT, MSM?!
The San Francisco sheriff wanted nothing to do with the program and the City Council in Washington blocked use of the fingerprint plan in the nation’s capital.
Colorado is the latest entity to debate the program, called Secure Communities, and immigrant groups have begun to speak up, telling the governor in a letter last week that the initiative will make crime victims reluctant to cooperate with police “due to fear of being drawn into the immigration regime.’’
Under the program, the fingerprints of everyone who is booked into jail for any crime are run against FBI criminal history records and Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine who is in the country illegally and whether they’ve been arrested previously. Most jurisdictions are not included in the program, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been expanding the initiative....
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