While people protest the terrible Arizona state law that uses local law enforcement to target immigrants, the federal government is expanding its efforts to use local law enforcement in immigration enforcement and has launched a major PR campaign to defend it.

La ley de Arizona afecta a todo extranjero cuyo aspecto constituya "sospecha razonable". "Por ser morena ya te consideran un criminal", sintetizó María Alanis, una ciudadana estadounidense de 41 años, nacida en México. Por eso "este día es el peor en la historia de nosotros los inmigrantes", dijo Alanis el viernes 23. "Yo no sé si se les ha olvidado la historia, pero este estado es de inmigrantes", añadió. De casi seis millones de habitantes, 1,3 millones son extranjeros.

Dado que la inmensa mayoría de los migrantes irregulares de Arizona son mexicanos, la medida tiene un contenido racial evidente y se convertirá en una práctica discriminatoria.

Source: New America Media by Valeria Fernández PHOENIX, Ariz. — After a week of ongoing protests and acts of civil disobedience, Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 making Arizona the first state in the nation to consider it a crime for a person to be an undocumented immigrant. The new law would go into effect 90 days after [...]

Fuente: La Jornada Policías podrán interrogar y detener a cualquier “sospechoso” de no tener papeles Prevén que la gobernadora republicana no vete la iniciativa sancionada en el Congreso estatal Grupos defensores de inmigrantes planean movilizaciones en caso de que sea promulgada por David Brooks Nueva York, 19 de abril. El odio contra los inmigrantes se manifestó hoy de Arizona a [...]

by Kari Lydersen October 24, 2009 ACOMA, NEW MEXICO-On the Navajo Nation, almost everyone you talk to either worked in uranium mines themselves or had fathers or husbands who did. Almost everyone also has multiple stories of loved ones dying young from cancer, kidney disease and other ailments attributed to uranium poisoning. The effects aren’t limited to uranium [...]

by Jonathan Hiskes October 22, 2009 There are good reasons not to get too worked up about public-opinion polling on issues like climate change and energy. Polls confirm, over and over, that the public opinion is malleable—so much rides on the wording of questions. And most people don’t analyze policy in their spare time, so why ask [...]

por Adrianne Appel BOSTON, Estados Unidos, 7 sep (IPS) – Cientos de miles de personas en Estados Unidos pierden sus viviendas cada mes porque no pueden pagar las cuotas de las hipotecas, mientras persiste la crisis y aumenta la angustia, alertaron activistas. Millones de personas están sin trabajo y no pueden pagar las elevadas tasas de interés [...]

by Ralph Nader August 3, 2009 Every week, Marcia Carroll collects examples of privatization (that is, corporatization of the peoples’ assets). Looking at her website, privatizationwatch.org, will either make you laugh helplessly or make your blood boil.

by Lynn Adler July 16, 2009 NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. home foreclosure activity galloped to a record in the first half of the year, overwhelming broad efforts to remedy failing loans while job losses escalated.