Big news today — the Third Circuit Hazleton case (see below) has finally been released, almost two years after it was argued in 2008. And the good guys won. Major props to the folks at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project who argued and briefed the case. The unanimous decision was decided on federal preemption grounds, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Jan Brewer'
Omg Omg Omg
September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics
Tags: 1981·ACLU·ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project·Arizona·Hazleton·Hazleton v. Lozano·Jan Brewer·preemption·SB 1070·Third Circuit
Other Bills Not Worth Reading
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Law and Justice, Politics
We have already said a few things here about how dumb Arizona is with its unreadable laws against all things Latino. But lost in the discussion of racial profiling is this other creepy law Jan Brewer signed regarding public school curricula. Arizona schools are now forbidden from having courses which “promote the overthrow of the [...]
Tags: ACLU·after-school club·Arizona·education·ethnic studies·First Amendment·Immigration·Jan Brewer·Jim Crow·Old South·public education·race·racial bias·racial profiling·racism·segregation·students·Tom Horne·Tuscon·white people
See? It says so right there!
May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized
This post by Monica Potts shows that cries from supporters of Arizona’s abhorrent immigration law that the law’s opponents haven’t even read the bill aren’t quite the smoking gun they’re presented as (regardless of what Jan Brewer’s cheap Kermit rip-off might say.) However, the post does not address the obnoxious argument that’s usually paired [...]
Tags: Arizona·Brown v. Board of Education·conservative logic·Immigration·Jan Brewer·John Yoo·race·racism·SB 1070
Jan Brewer, Everyone
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics
Here’s a little treat to get you through this lonely time without us – Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, stumbling all over herself in defense of Arizona’s new immigration bill: Q: What does an illegal immigrant look like? A: [Awkwardly laughs.] I do not know. I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. [...]
Tags: Arizona·discrimination·Immigration·immigration bill·Jan Brewer·racial profiling·SB 1070