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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer issued the following press release on March 29, 2012, about the amicus brief filed by the State of California and ten other states in opposition to Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law known as SB 1070:
“This legal filing is pure politics and takes tortured logic and rank hypocrisy to new [...]
The following is the text of a December 10, 2010, press release from Arizona Governor Jan Brewer:
“Governor Jan Brewer today announced that the federal district court has granted her motions to dismiss the challenges to SB 1070 filed by Phoenix police officers David Salgado, Corbet Clack, and Paul Dobson and Chicanos Por [...]
Arizona Republic: “A boycott of Arizona in the wake of a controversial immigration law has cost the state more than $140 million in lost meeting and convention business, a new report released Thursday shows.”
Arizona Republic: “Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever seemed surprised and encouraged by some of the comments three 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges made during a hearing Monday over Senate Bill 1070.”
See the LA Times story called “Judicial [...]
Much of the debate regarding Arizona Senate Bill 1070 concerns its implementation, with considerably less focus on its origins. Proponents of SB 1070 maintain that it stems from and upholds federal law, and that it purposes to curb illegal immigration and protect Arizona citizens. Some opponents believe that SB 1070 is, among other things, a money-making plan [...]
Arizona Republic: “An NPR story about the origins of Senate Bill 1070 drew an angry response Thursday from its author, who said the radio account exaggerated the role prison lobbyists had in drafting it. State Sen. Russell Pearce [said] . . . ‘It’s a lie’,”
See “Arizona immigration law wrong, Janet [...]
Here is the text of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s October 13, 2010, press release about the brief she filed on behalf of Arizona in the United States v. Arizona lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department to overturn Arizona Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law.
“Today I filed my response to the [...]
Politico: “In a new twist in the fight over Arizona’s immigration law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday asked a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to overturn the law. The move comes in response to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling . . . [...]
Arizona Republic: “Seemingly overnight, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu went from a local lawman to a national figure. Outspoken in his support of tough immigration enforcement, he has appeared on TV news programs dozens of times and is fast becoming a known face in political circles.”
See “Pinal County sheriff, residents [...]
Arizona Republic: “Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate and millionaire businessman Buz Mills is taking on a new challenge. He’s focusing his fundraising efforts on helping two Arizona sheriffs defend themselves against lawsuits challenging Arizona’s controversial immigration law.”
Phoenix Business Journal: “A Hispanic group opposed to Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 immigration measure has launched a boycott of Budweiser beer and the Phoenix-based Anheuser-Busch distributorship headed by Cindy Hensley McCain.”
Here is the text of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s press release of July 28, 2010, about federal district Judge Susan Bolton’s order staying parts of SB 1070, Arizona’s illegal immigration law:
“I am disappointed by Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling enjoining several provisions of “The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” — [...]
Those of you who want go delve into the finer points of law regarding United States District Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling of July 28, 2010, in the matter of U.S. vs. State of Arizona that stays the enforcement of parts of Arizona’s illegal immigration law known as SB 1070, should read the entire [...]
1. Investors Business Daily: “Judging Arizona”
“If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: The federal government has no intent of enforcing the laws against rampant and brazen illegal immigration. Indeed, it will punish those states that try, leaving them at the mercy of the kidnappers, terrorists, gangsters, drug dealers and human traffickers [...]
MSNBC is conducting an online poll asking if people think Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, is a good idea. Take the poll and view the latest poll results. Update: As of July 14, 2010, the poll was taken down. The numbers in the above headline were the numbers from the evening of July 13, 2010. [...]
New York Post: “President Obama is suing Arizona for having its cops identify and round up illegal aliens — even though he’s also deputizing them to do the same thing. That’s right: Under a little-known federal program called ICE 287(g), the administration has continued to enlist at least eight Arizona state law-enforcement agencies [...]
Read the 25 page Complaint in the matter of The United States of America vs. The State of Arizona and Janice K. Brewer, Governor of the State of Arizona, in Her Official Capacity. The Complaint states three causes of action:
Violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution Preemption under Federal Law Violation [...]
1. New York: “Federal Government Sues Over Arizona Immigration Law”
2. Wall St. Journal: “U.S. Sues to Block Arizona Immigration Law”
3. Associated Press: “Gov’t files suit to throw out AZ immigration law”
4. Fox News: “Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds”
5. Associated Press: “US government sues Arizona [...]
The country on the southern border of the United States that jails illegal immigrants and that enforces a tough no illegal entry policy filed a brief in U.S. court in support of overturning Arizona’s immigration law. The following is Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s June 22, 2010, press release on Mexico’s action:
The Maricopa County Attorney published what appears to be a manual for Arizona law enforcement officers about Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. Federal law requires that every alien registered in the U.S. must be issued a certificate of alien registration card [8 USC Section 1304(d)] and carry the card at all times [...]
To the astonishment and embarrassment of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an Ecuadoran TV audience today that the Obama administration will sue Arizona to overturn Arizona’s immigration law. Governor Brewer recently met with President Obama at the White House to discuss Arizona and immigration. Instead of President [...]
Phoenix New Times: “Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who recently slipped Sand Land’s Hispanic population an ice pick to the kidney by vowing to ‘vigorously defend’ the law if and when the feds file suit. See, Goddard, a Democrat, wants to be governor, just like his daddy was long ago. But since Republican [...]
Several Arizona law professors have written “Arizona Senate Bill 1070: A Preliminary Report.” The professors are Gabriel J. Chin,University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy; Carissa Byrne Hessick, Arizona State, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law; Toni M. Massaro, University of Arizona [...]
Wow! Arizona Governor Jan Brewer took her gloves off on Friday when she fired Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard from defending Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. You can’t blame her, however, after Godddard’s statements that he opposed SB 1070 and would not defend it. The last straw apparently was Goddard’s secret meeting [...]
Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin of the University of Arizona School of Law has prepare an annotated version of the full text of Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070. the full text of SB 1070, The complete text of Senate Bill 1070 prepared by Professor Chin has been published by the Arizona Republic. Here are links to [...]
On May 19, 2010, President Obama and the leader of a country that has a no-nonsense put the aliens in jail policy joined to attack the State of Arizona for wanting to enforce the existing United States immigration laws. Mexican President and hypocrite Felipe Calderon, with President Obama at his side, said:
“We [...]
Los Angeles Times: “A new Pew Research Center Poll finds fully 73% of the country thinks police requesting immigration status documents is fine, while 67% think detaining someone for a status check is OK. The poll reports that, overall, 59% approve of the law’s broad provisions, while less than a third (32%) now [...]
Text of New Arizona Revised Statutes Sections 23-212, 23-212.01, 23-214, 28-3511 and 41-1274 (effective July 29, 2010). This post does not contain the entire text of the new law. The entire law is contained in this part 4 and in:
“Text of Arizona’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Law – Part 1” which contains the text [...]
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tucson said that he wants the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to sue to overturn Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigrant law, aka Senate Bill 1070, the Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.
There has been a great outcry in the press and on the internet about the terrible new anti-illegal immigrant law signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010. The sad reality is that very few people on both sides of the issue have actually read the new law, but [...]
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