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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 [...]

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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. I can [...]

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Turns Out, Local Police Sure Like Trying To Deport People

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Uncategorized

A new study by the Warren Institute just came out this month analyzing some extremely rare arrest data from Irving, Texas. The ACLU of Texas managed, by some wild miracle, to get arrest records for a 23-month period during which Irving started participating in the Criminal Alien Program (”CAP”). (Get it? ICE CAP? I know, [...]

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Pity the Fool

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Technology

For those of us no-name types, Twitter provides an outlet for the little germs of wisdom we come up with while drunk and/or pathetically lonely. For political types, however, Twitter is an easily mockable (and equally misguided) excuse for a soapbox. Josh Treviño (former Bush writer of some sort, who now runs a “strategies & [...]

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