Women immigrants tell of life in fear thanks to ‘Papers, please’ laws
Women immigrants from Arizona, Alabama and Georgia are living in fear after laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 have been put into place. In a conference call sponsored by We Belong Together, a coalition of...
View ArticleBorder patrol mistakenly detains 96-year-old former AZ governor
Border Patrol agents successfully detained 96 year-old former Arizona Governor Raul H. Castro for over a half an hour last month after his pacemaker triggered a radiation sensor, according to...
View ArticleJared Lee Loughner pleads guilty to Arizona shooting
The man accused of the 2011 shooting that killed six and wounded 13 others in Tucson pleaded guilty on Tuesday. Jared Lee Loughner, 23, is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison with no...
View ArticleArizona Republican: Middle Easterners ‘look Mexican’ and want ‘to cause harm’
A leading Muslim civil rights group said Wednesday that Republican Party officials in Arizona should repudiate a freshly minted congressional candidate after her Democratic opponent published video of...
View ArticleImmigrants in deferred-deportation program could get tuition discount
As the first few approvals comes in for participants in President Obama’s deferred-deporation program, colleges in at least one state have made a move toward helping eligible students afford a college...
View ArticleUndocumented immigrants fear for their children as AZ ‘papers’ law takes effect
Latinos living without immigration papers in Arizona have begun bombarbing helplines and lawyers’ offices with anxious requests about how to provide for their children should they be arrested under a...
View ArticleNumber of uncounted ballots in Arizona rises as deadline nears
While the presidential election is now over, the state of Arizona has hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots that could determine a number of races, including that of infamous Maricopa County...
View ArticleThree shot in Phoenix workplace shooting as NRA testifies to Senate
As National Rifle Association (NRA) head Wayne LaPierre was telling a Senate committee on Wedneday that additional gun laws were not necessary, at least three people were shot at a business in Phoenix,...
View ArticlePolice: 17 injured in 400-inmate brawl at Tucson prison
A fight involving more than 400 inmates broke out Sunday morning at a prison near Tucson, Arizona, leaving 17 prisoners injured along with two members of the prison staff, according to The Associated...
View ArticlePrivate surveillance companies flock to Arizona’s annual Border Security Expo...
From a distance, it looked like Wyatt Nease was using a handset to operate a remote control car. However, the small wheeled vehicle zipping across the carpet was not a child’s toy but the very adult...
View ArticleArizona bill forces cities to resell guns turned in at buyback events
A bill passed by Arizona Republicans on Tuesday would force cities and counties to resell — instead of destroy — the firearms turned in to gun buyback programs, potentially allowing the weapons to end...
View ArticleAppeals court: Arizona abortion ban is flatly unconstitutional
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Arizona’s ban on all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy is flatly unconstitutional, striking it down without additional comment. The state’s...
View ArticleForce of 600 firefighters tighten grip over deadly Arizona wildfire
By Tim Gaynor PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) – Firefighters on Wednesday tightened their grip on a blaze in Arizona that killed 19 of their comrades days earlier in the deadliest U.S. wildfire tragedy in...
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Radical wind changes blamed for Arizona firefighter deaths
Arizona wildfire: Details emerge on tragedy that killed 19 hotshots (via The Christian Science Monitor) As more becomes known about the devastating Arizona wildfire that killed 19 members of a...
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Arizona’s hateful climate gets uglier
If anyone thought the Arizona “papers please” law was going to be the end of the wildly racist legislating going on in Arizona, well, I wish I could say I had good news for you. But I don’t. Phase I...
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But it’s not about racism
Supporters of the Arizona “papers please” law keep insisting that the only motivation for the law is a strict love of law-and-order, and that racism has nothing to do with it. And that anyone who...
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Justice Department files lawsuit against Arizona
Good news, though it’s sorry that it’s come to this—the Justice Department is now officially moving to sue the state of Arizona over the “papers please” law. The argument is that the law usurps the...
View ArticleOfficials arrest 70 in major Arizona drug bust
(Reuters) – Law enforcement officials in Arizona seized thousands of pounds of narcotics and arrested at least 70 suspected drug smugglers with apparent ties to a violent drug cartel in Mexico, an...
View ArticleACLU urges judge to dismiss challenge to Arizona’s medical marijuana law
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday told a federal judge that a lawsuit filed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer challenging her own state’s medical marijuana law should be thrown out. Proposition...
View ArticleArizona GOP lawmaker wants a holiday celebrating white people
A Republican lawmaker in Arizona is hoping his state creates a holiday celebrating white people. According to CBS affiliate in Phoenix, state Rep. Cecil Ash made his request felt on the Arizona House...
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