Brewer Blasts Feds Over Controversial Issue
By AMANDA LEE MYERS, The Associated Press PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer blasted the federal government for failing to secure the U.S.-Mexico b...
By AMANDA LEE MYERS, The Associated Press PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer blasted the federal government for failing to secure the U.S.-Mexico b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is ducking a U.S. Senate invitation to come defend her state's harsh immigration law. Sen. Chuck Schumer ...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.03.2012
Legislative Democrats in Arizona are criticizing Gov. Jan Brewer for leaving the state shortly after calling the state Senate into special session to ...
Posted 12.21.2011
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) compares the hectic process of passing a controversial immigration law in her state to waterboarding in her new book, ...
AP | PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 12.20.2011
PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer provides behind-the-scenes details in her new book about her handling of Arizona's controversial immigration enforceme...
AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 11.08.2011
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put on hold key parts of the s...
Dawn Teo | Posted 07.10.2011
After drafting Arizona's controversial new immigration law SB1070 last year, Arizona state Senate President Russell Pearce held the spotlight and became the anti-immigration poster boy in Arizona and across the nation.
The Arizona Republic | Ginger Rough | Posted 07.08.2011
Gov. Jan Brewer raised a lot of eyebrows in the closing days of this year's legislative session, issuing strongly worded vetoes on a host of bills. Br...
Gabe Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011
The immigration debate is not about law, not about fairness, not about justice. It's about race. Plain and simple. It's about the fear of more brown people coming into our society, our culture.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is standing by a comment she made in June, in which she stated that the majority of undocumented immigrants coming to Ariz...
Luis Heredia | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona's unelected governor Jan Brewer is taking a page right out of Sarah Palin's playbook: Attack your opponent with questionable claims and outrig...
KPHO | Posted 05.25.2011
He's Chuck Coughlin, Brewer's campaign chairman, policy adviser and a lobbyist for the largest private prison company in the country. And he's one of ...
AP | PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — As the year began, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer faced a competitive field of fellow Republicans who wanted her job, with some GOP critics s...
Los Angeles Times | Anna Gorman and Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona has made a name for itself as the state with the harshest policies against illegal immigration. But as few as six years ago, this border state...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer says that the enforcement of Arizona's controversial new immigration law may not help to increase security along the state'...
The Huffington Post | Jeremy Binckes | Posted 05.25.2011
After Wednesday's ruling that parts of the Arizona immigration law were blocked, politicians quickly reacted to the news. The law's supporters genera...
Luis Heredia | Posted 05.25.2011
This recent TV news report exposes Jan Brewer's connections to Corrections Corporation of America, the private prison company that could make money imprisoning illegal immigrants.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — Attorneys for Gov. Jan Brewer have asked a judge to throw out the U.S. Justice Department's challenge to Arizona's new immigration law...
AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD and PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — The Arizona immigration law came under new legal scrutiny in a packed courtroom Thursday as a federal judge considered whether the cra...
AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — Arizona's impending immigration law went before a federal judge for the first time Thursday, and attorneys for both sides sparred over...
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
BOSTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met privately on Sunday with her successor as Arizona governor as the Obama administration...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
In an interview, Gov. Jan Brewer's spokesperson didn't wait for me to ask whether Arizona's anti-immigration law opened wide the flood gate to racial profiling -- he plowed right in and repeatedly denied that the law sanctioned racial profiling.
Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer suggested earlier this week that law enforcement agencies in her home state have discovered "bodies in the desert" ...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011
Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is unleashing a fierce line of attack on President Obama in a new web video over the placement of new warning signs...
AP | PAUL DAVENPORT and BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — The Texas and Arizona governors criticized the Obama administration's border security plans Monday, saying not enough National Guard t...
Posted 03.06.2012