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Duncan D. Hunter inherits his father’s ignorance posing danger to Constitution.	Arizona – The Police State of America
By Patrick Osio, Jr./HispanicVista.co May 15, 2010 Ignorance is a sad state that stops being sad when the ignorant is a person holding public office whose actions can be harmful to the community, state or nation he/she serves. Particularly when adding to ignorance is biases, and a narcissist personality. Further damage is often done by passing on to sons/daughters those traits. Such is the case of former California (52 District) Congressman Duncan Lee Hunter..	By Sal Osio, JD *Mi Punto de Vista* From the Publisher’s Corner May 15, 2010 Arizona’s “Your papers please” statute has condemned its society, who support the law by a reported margin of 70%, to the dubious honor of becoming a police state within the United states. This is not to say that the federal government is out of step. In fact, we seem to be all marching in that direction based on the assault of federal legislation usurping the rights of the American people’s protection under the Bill of Rights. Witness the forfeiture laws and the Patriot Act, among the dozens of legislative acts infringing on our rights.
The Constitution is clear, Arizona is not	Into the Crystal Ball Darkly
By Raoul Lowery Contrera May 15, 2010 The tearful 15-year-old girl told her San Diego Police sergeant father that she had been raped while riding her horse in the hills above her house by three Mexican men and a Mexican woman attacked and raped her. He called out the troops.	By Richard N. Baldwin T. /HispanicVista.com May 15, 2010 *From Mexico City* For the life of me, and probably many others, I could not understand the broken logic of the administration and the Congress in not only keeping but increasing the accumulating federal debt. And, as we know, a majority of the voters agree that this is a path to national collapse. But there is a possible plan behind this.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT	Conservative Latinos Rethink Party Ties
Mexico's big hope: get 5 million U.S. retirees By Andres Oppenheimer Mexico is silently working on proposals aimed at drawing millions of U.S. retirees to this country, which could eventually lead to the most ambitious U.S.-Mexican project since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.	By MIRIAM JORDAN Adam Bustos, a third-generation Mexican-American, has voted Republican since Ronald Reagan ran for president. But he has been reconsidering his party affiliation since Arizona State Gov. Jan Brewer signed the nation's toughest immigration law last month.
Congress must assure Mexico deals with its economic problems	Arizona: Pariah state or mainstream?
By Tracy Emblem California Congressman Brian Bilbray, Chair of the Immigration Reform Committee, and former lobbyist for FAIR (listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), offers no real solutions to the immigration debate. In response to Arizona’s new radical immigration bill, Bilbray supported its legality and explained that police could spot illegal immigrants merely by the way they dress. His remarks demonstrate a lack of critical thinking skills necessary for leadership in Congress on complex, human, social and economic issues.	By Gebe Martinez The main reason the public is polling in favor of the Arizona law is because they are frustrated wtih the lack of action on the issue from Congress and the White House, and they may not be fully aware of other solutions that would fix the broken immigration system without violating anyone's constitutional rights.
Without Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Intolerance Will Rise Across Our Country	Intolerance Will Rise in Absence of Immigration Reform
Beyond Arizona By Gebe Martinez For years now, the temperature in Arizona has been rising, not from the punishing arid desert heat but from the increasing political intolerance of the state’s immigrant population. A new boiling point was reached last month when Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law requiring police to investigate, detain, and arrest people if they sense immigration violations.	NEW REPORT: Washington D.C.— May 14, 2010 - In conjunction with today’s discussion with elected officials who have been at the center of the immigration debate, the Center for American Progress released the report “Beyond Arizona: Without Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Intolerance Will Rise Across Our Country” outlining how these laws, in particular Arizona’s S.B.1070, thrive in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform.
Local inmates just 1% illegal	Newsweek and the Criminal Immigrants Next Door
By Joe Ferguson Slightly more than 1 percent of the more than 15,000 people booked into the Coconino County Jail over a 16-month period were illegal immigrants. The figure, released by county jail officials, confirms statements from local law enforcement officials that illegal immigrants do not represent a significant proportion of arrests.	By Jim Naureckas Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) – May 12, 2010 Newsweek has another installment in the don't-blame-Arizonans coverage of the state's new immigration law (FAIR Blog, 4/28/10, 5/3/10, 5/4/10). Under the charming headline "Mexican Standoff," reporter Eve Conant writes:
Public Supports Arizona Immigration Law	Not All States Target Immigrants or the Slightly Suntanned
Democrats Divided, But Support Provisions Pew Research Center for the People & the Press The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law's provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.	By Travis Packer Despite the commotion around Arizona’s SB 1070, a recent report shows that more laws expanding immigrants’ rights are being enacted than those contracting them. The Wilson Center’s study, Context Matters: Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities , found that in 2007, 19 percent of 313 bills expanding immigrant rights were enacted and only 11 percent of 263 bills contracting rights were enacted by state legislatures.
Restrictionist Group Blames Immigrants for Teen Unemployment	Young Latino Children Show Strong Classroom Skills, Despite Many Growing Up in Poverty
By Walter Ewing In a new report, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) attempts to blame immigrants for the declining share of native-born teenagers in the United States who join the U.S. labor force during the summer months. However, in its rush to blame immigrants, CIS completely overlooks an even more important factor that has fueled declining labor-force participation rates among U.S. teenagers over the past decade and a half.	But for teens, peer pressure, mediocre schools undercut initial gains. By the American Psychological Association (May 3, 2010) WASHINGTON - Immigrant Latinos display strong parenting practices and raise socially agile children, but these early gains are likely to be eroded by mediocre schools and peer pressure in poor neighborhoods, according to findings published by the American Psychological Association.
New Arizona law could be detrimental to students, according to OSU researchers	New Report: Latino Immigrant Integration Highly Dependent on Local Context
By: Angela Yeager, CORVALLIS, Ore. – 5-12-10 - A new Arizona law targeting ethnic studies classes could negatively affect students’ academic achievement and reverse academic gains made over the last several years, according to two Oregon State University researchers.	By the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute (May 10, 2010) Our new report, Context Matters: Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities, looks closely at nine U.S. cities and finds that Latino immigrant communities are more determined than ever to integrate and participate in civic and political life where they live in the United States.
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