Teachers with foreign accents banned in Arizona schools

I’m guessing they probably won’t be applying that rule to Brits.

I can do nothing to change what the people and government of Arizona have done, but I will never forget what I am seeing, and I will never forgive Arizona for it. They have taken in my perception the dubious Blue Ribbon County Fair [...]

AriZona Iced Tea says we are from New York, not Arizona

So says their website. They are NOT from Arizona. So keep buying our wonderful Iced Tea which comes from Long Island, NY. Which is the anti-Arizona. So stop already with the hostile phone calls, emails, and boycotts.

OK Republicans considering anti-immigrant legislation more draconian than AZ

Before all this goes completely off the tracks and the opposing sides spend the next several years screaming at each other, could we try working towards actual solutions?

Seriously.

Mayor Bloomberg on Arizona’s immigration law: ‘We are committing national suicide’

A fired-up Mayor Bloomberg warned the U.S. “is committing national suicide” by passing the buck on implementing comprehensive immigration reform.

Bloomberg said that because federal lawmakers have failed to tackle the thorny issue, lawmakers in states like Arizona have taken matters into their own hands.

Well put. The Arizona immigration law, aside from [...]

Chuck D. Boycott Arizona

This statement is from Chuck D of Public Enemy and his wife Dr Gaye Theresa Johnson Professor Of Black Studies and Chicano Studies UC Santa Barbara.

Jan Brewer’s decision to sign the Arizona immigration bill into law is racist, deceitful, and reflects some of the most mean-spirited politics against immigrants that the country has [...]

The Arizona immigration law

The law targets the wrong people, will solve nothing, and probably lead to increased violence from all sides. But this is more than just racism or xenophobia. In my view, people there are getting scared.

The murder of rancher Robert Krentz on his border ranch, almost certainly by drug smugglers, was the precipitating event [...]