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Outed GOP Sheriff Reportedly Had Relationship With Male Student While Running Abusive Private Boarding School

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Feb. 27 (News Report) - Disgraced Arizona congressional candidate and GOP sheriff Paul Babeu is facing yet another round of unseemly charges. The Pinal County sheriff, who stepped down as Arizona's co-chair for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign amidst allegations he threatened a gay ex-lover with deportation, reportedly served as headmaster for the now-defunct DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Mass. from 1999 to 2001.

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Sheriff Accused Of Trying To Deport Campaign Worker, Steps Down From Romney Campaign

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Elise Foley - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu, currently serving as a sheriff in Arizona, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the co-chair for the Mitt...

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What Do Marco Rubio, Immigrants For Sale, And A Sh_t-Ton Of Cash Have In Common?

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

MoveOn - By MoveOn productions - Oct. 22 (News Report) - You’re about to find out. Watch:

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The disturbing copy-and-paste habits of Russell Pearce

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Jeff Biggers - Aug. 03 (News) - The self-proclaimed architect of Arizona's "papers please" immigration law has regularly borrowed significant portions of text from the writings of hard-line white nationalists, fringe anti-immigrant activists, and others whose views far fall outside the mainstream.

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Arizona Lawmaker Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter's Chest

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Alexander Belenky - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R), a gun-rights champion, keeps a loaded raspberry-pink handgun in her purse, and during an interview with Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, she took it out and pointed it at him.

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Justices Rely On 'Standing' To Dismiss Church-State Disputes

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Adelle M. Banks - Jun. 30 (News Analysis) - As the U.S. Supreme Court ends its 2010-2011 term this week, legal scholars say a decision issued two months ago is likely to resonate within church-state debates for years to come.

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Legislator's comment on illegal immigration criticized

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

LJWorld - By Scott Rothschild - Mar. 15 (News) - A legislator said Monday it might be a good idea to control illegal immigration the way the feral hog population has been controlled: with gunmen shooting from helicopters.

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Can Arizona Override Federal Laws?

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

kpho.com - By Elizabeth Erwin - Feb. 02 (News Report) - A bill that pretty much says Arizona leaders can throw out federal laws is making its way through the state legislature. If passed and signed into law, Senate Bill 1433 would give members of the state legislature the power to override federal laws and executive orders.

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D.C. Anti-Walmart Protesters Plan March on Developer‘s Home With ’Target’ Flyer

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Blaze - By Jonathon M. Seidl - Jan. 19 (News) - A group of Washington, D.C. protesters upset about the possibility of a Walmart store coming to their area is hoping to send the potential developer of the proposed store a message. So much so that they‘re planning to march to and protest at the developer’s personal residence. The group has even gone as far as to circulate the man’s home address.

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“Journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel”

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Hot Air - By Ed Morrissey - Jan. 12 (News Analysis) - Sarah Palin has given her first extensive public remarks after the shootings in Tucson and the media attempts to blame the Tea Party and herself for the violence. She firmly but calmly rebuts that notion, quoting Ronald Reagan to insist that individuals are responsible for their actions, and that robust political dialogue in a free country should not be blamed for acts of individual lunacy. Palin reserves her harshest criticism, delivered in a tone of sadness, for those journalists and pundits who wound up slandering not just her but millions of people who participated in political activism:

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Nearly 50 Percent Of Mental Health Services Recipients In Giffords' County Were Dropped In 2010

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Jan. 11 (News Report) - In the past year, Pima County, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot Saturday, has seen more than 45 percent of its mental health services recipients forced off the public rolls, a service advocate told The Huffington Post.

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Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Jan. 10 (News Report) - At 2:00 a.m. on Saturdayabout eight hours before Jared Lee Loughner allegedly killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)he phoned an old and close friend with whom he had gone to high school and college. The friend, Bryce Tierney, was up late watching TV, but he didn't answer the call. When he later checked his voice mail, he heard a simple message from Loughner: "Hey man, it's Jared. Me and you had good times. Peace out. Later." That was it. But later in the day, when Tierney first heard about the Tucson massacre, he had a sickening f

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GOP Aims to Bolster Immigration Enforcement, But Little Change Is Likely

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Elise Foley - Nov. 04 (News) - Democrats will have still a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts

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Immigration Hardliner Governors Likely in Many States

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Elise Foley - Nov. 03 (News) - Suzy Khimm has a good piece at Mother Jones today on the crop of immigration hardliners who are favored to take over as governors of Georgia, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina and Nebraska. For immigration reform advocates, the future looks

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SB1070 Better for Governor Than for Business

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Patrick Burns - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - Arizona's law requiring police to check the citizenship status of those they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally has done wonders the state's governor — and for reducing cross-border trade.

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Raul Grijalva's Office On Lockdown After Swastika-Covered Suspicious Package Arrives

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 22 (News) - The office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has been locked down due to the presence of a suspicious package covered with swastikas, according to reports. KVOA reports that an "envelope containing white powder" was mailed to Grijalva's Tuscon office. Bomb technicians are reportedly on hand.

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Redefining Birthright Citizenship, One State at a Time

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:19:44 -0700

Washington Independent - Oct. 20 (News) - The measure is, of course, a direct violation of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States. According to Berman, that’s precisely the point. In the best-case scenario, Texas state Rep. Leo Berman hopes his state

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Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Nick Wing - Oct. 12 (News) - A federal judge has dismissed challenges to a civil rights lawsuit against Arizona's controversial immigration law, allowing the action against the recently enacted law to proceed.

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Woman Claims She Worked For Nevada Candidate Brian Sandoval While She Was Undocumented

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Oct. 11 (News Report) - With California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman still facing questions over whether she hired an undocumented immigrant as a housekeeper, another Republican hopeful is now facing...

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Mexico's illegal immigrants? Americans.

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Meghan Collins Sullivan - Sep. 28 (Special Report) - As in the United States, estimates of the number of illegal immigrants in Mexico at any given time are hard to come by. But the majority are ex-pats from the U.S., according to Mexico’s federal bureau of immigration.

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Brewer Finally Backpedals: I Was Wrong About Headless Bodies

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Ben Frumin - Sep. 04 (News Report) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is finally backpedaling on her bogus claim that headless bodies have been found in the Arizona desert, the alleged product of illegal immigration. "That was an error, if I said that," Brewer told the Associated Press yesterday. "I misspoke, but you know, let me be clear, I am concerned about the border region because it continues to be reported in Mexico that there's a lot of violence going on and we don't want that going into Arizona."

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Feds Sue Arizona Sheriff in Civil Rights Investigation

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Marian Wang - Sep. 04 (News Report) - You can’t say the feds didn’t give advance warning. Last month, the Justice Department threatened to sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he kept up with his refusals to cooperate with an ongoing civil rights investigation into whether he discriminates against Hispanics. Now, a suit has been filed against both the sheriff and his office.

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Immigration Enforcement Loopholes

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:31:43 -0700

Washington Independent - Aug. 17 (News) - For all of the federal government’s gains in immigration enforcement — Immigration and Customs Enforcement will deport a record 400,000 people this fiscal year — ICE officials have always said full enforcement is impossible. For one thing, there are

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In Wake of Arizona’s Immigration Law, Cities Called ‘Sanctuaries’ Question the Label

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Elise Foley - Aug. 09 (News) - Even cities proud of their immigrant-friendly policies object to being called “sanctuary cities.” Durham, N.C., a left-leaning city near Raleigh, voted this spring to ban travel to Arizona because of SB 1070. “Any designation of a ‘sanctuary city,’ I don’t know where that comes from,” Thomas Bonfield, Durham city manager, told TWI. The city cooperates with federal officials, and in 2008 joined ICE’s 278(g) program, which trains local police to enforce some immigration laws.

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Lack of Resources Curtails ICE Tracking of Illegals

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

newsmax.com - Aug. 09 (News) - New guidance telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to focus on apprehending terrorists and criminals has many of ICE's rank-and-file agents wondering who then is responsible for tracking down and detaining the millions of other

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