Phoenix SB 1070 is on the two month countdown to implementation barring action by the Justice Department or others to block its enforcement. The biggest rub has been the preemptive racial profiling of anyone by color or accent might seem to be an immigrant. Governor Brewer of Arizona has claimed that this is not the …
Month: May 2010
With the Movement in Arizona
Phoenix Talking briefly with Pablo Alvarado, head of NDLON, and Salvador Reza, perhaps the principal spark plug behind the march and rally to block implementation of SB 1070, the racial profiling, anti-immigrant law that is scheduled to be implemented in two months, I asked how it was looking and what they were hoping for. Salvador …
Weeping Foreclosure Victims
Phoenix We were sitting in the living room in the special, quiet, deep heat of a Phoenix afternoon visiting with the women of three generations of the Roman family. No fan or air conditioner or street noise could be heard at the end of the cul de sac on Pasadena Street. The silence was only …