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Jan Brewer Gets Embarrassing Xenophobic Lady-Boner In Anticipation of Supreme Court SB 1070 Decision
Ms. Brewer had to be escorted from the courtroom as she laughed maniacally and did nothing to conceal her excitement.
Sheriff Joe must answer for the abuse of a pregnant American citizen and countless others. Arizona voters have one question to ask themselves, what more can Sheriff Arpaio do before they stand up and make a change?
The rise of the state-passed immigration movement has been an ideological dead end for the country and a stagnation of real conversation around reforming our current system.
The Supreme Court shouldn't buy S.B. 1070 supporters' claims when it hears arguments tomorrow. The Constitution doesn't allow states to set immigration and foreign policy, and it certainly doesn't allow them to do so in a manner that discriminates against people of color.
A state like Arizona should be working with the federal government and private businesses to invest more in the ports of entry's with Mexico to increase legal travel and commerce into their state, not trashing it.
As Esperanza asked what I thought she could do, I found myself paralyzed. Esperanza asked if she could call the police. A chill went through my spine as the lawyer in me carefully answered that I did not think that was safe under HB 56.
None of us would want to have our job performance judged on an outcome that we don't really control. But that's where teachers now find themselves.
At the end of the election race, when Mitt Romney is alone in his thoughts, reflecting on how things went so wrong and at whom to point his finger to say, "This is all your fault!" He will have nobody to blame but himself and his entirely self-created "Hispanic Problem."
In Spanish, we say "Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres" - "Tell me with whom you walk and I will tell you who you are." Mitt Romney walks today with the most anti-immigrant officials in America.
It is disingenuous at best for the Republican Party to say out of one corner of their mouth that our immigration system is broken, then do everything they can to stop any wholesale fix. Our states and our country deserve better.
On the one hand Jan Brewer says she's devoted to increasing commerce and tourism with Mexico, on the other she pushes legislation which would fund a militia to tour the southwest border.
Arizona lawmakers are today considering four anti-labor bills that would strip away the existing rights of public sector unions, weaken the state's personnel system and make it easier to fire public employees.
If we are to reform the prison system, and fix the other Big Problems, we must first reform the lobbying and campaign financing systems.
What are we saying to the young people of this country when our top elected officials are allowed to behave as if they're on a reality show? And, wher...
I can't explain why Brewer thought her actions were appropriate but considering how this first family has been treated since Obama became a viable candidate and that it came from Gov. Brewer, it's not shocking.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's tarmac tiff with President Obama influenced a major book bump. Who knew that her Scorpions for Breakfast tome even existed before the photo-op transformed it into a best-seller?
