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May 05, 2010 Dept. of Justice Says Staff Reviewing Arizona Law "Around the Clock" The head of the Dept. of Justice's Civil Rights Division (the same division that ignores complaints of discrimination against American citizen workers) told representatives of groups opposed to Arizona's new immigration law that staff were working "around the clock" to review the law. "It's shaping up to be a battle over whether we are going to enforce immigration law in the interior, whether the administration is going to step forward as partner or become part of the obstructionist opposition," FAIR president Dan Stein said.
Baseball Commissioner Pressured to Take Sides on Arizona Law A New York Times writer says that baseball commissioner Bud Selig should make a statement against Arizona's immigration law. Sporadic protests from some players and fans have led William C. Rhoden to believe that Selig must make a statement, despite Rhoden's admission that fans at an Arizona Diamondbacks game "heartily agree with their state's new immigration legislation, and others disagree." But Rhoden believes that fans who cheer foreign players on their team (legal immigrant players by the way - the U.S. admits thousands of foreign athletes to compete here each year) are hypocrites for supporting a law targeting illegal immigrants. Perhaps it is too much to expect a (New York Times) sports columnist to actually make (or understand) the same distinctions that fans regularly do - or to resist the temptation to morally posture about legislation the majority of Arizonans support. In contrast, Tim Sullivan of the San Diego Union-Tribune is at least in touch with the reality today of living in a border state. "The reality is that drugs and violence are crossing Arizona's southern border at an alarming rate -- Phoenix has become the nation's kidnapping capital -- and that terrible traffic won't be detoured should the Home Run Derby be staged somewhere else next summer."
PA Lawmakers Ready to Debate Arizona-Style Measure "A state representative proposed legislation Tuesday -- backed by several local lawmakers -- that was inspired by a controversial law passed last week in Arizona to combat illegal immigration. If passed, the bill by Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, would charge local law enforcement with checking immigration status, investigating businesses suspected of knowingly employing illegal immigrants and requiring businesses to verify a potential employee's legal status," the Salt Lake Tribune says. "What do we gain having cheaper tomatoes in the short term to sell out our security and sovereignty in the long term?" one of the sponsors said.
Mexico's Law Harsher Than Arizona "Did you know that Mexico has some of the toughest immigration laws in effect to keep people from entering Mexico? Do you think it would be racist if we decided to have our laws match Mexican immigration law?" asks writer David Alsaberry in the Santa Monica Daily Press. "Did you know that as an American you have no rights in Mexico? You're banned from interfering in Mexican politics under penalty of jail or deportation. Don't even think of going to Mexico to protest their treatment of illegal aliens, you will end up in jail or be part of the six out of 10 statistic [NGO estimates of sixty percent of women traveling illegally through Mexico are sexually abused in some way]."
Will Congress Take on Amnesty? "Senate Democrats unveiled a new proposal for reform late last week, stressing security first, then a pathway to legalization for the estimated 10.8 million people in the country illegally . . . for Senator Reid, immigration remains a top political concern: He is embroiled in a tough reelection battle, and he needs the support of Nevada's large Hispanic population - 20 percent of the state," says the Christian Science Monitor. "This is an issue with strange dynamics," says Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "You have well-moneyed special interests either on the side of the status quo or large-scale immigration.... Some business groups like hiring illegal labor, because it's docile and exploitable."
New York Gov Ready to Pardon Immigrant Criminals by the Hundreds "Gov. David A. Paterson announced on Monday that the state would accelerate consideration and granting of pardons to legal immigrants for old or minor criminal convictions, in an effort to prevent them from being deported," the New York Times reports. "Mr. Paterson is establishing a special five-member state panel to review the cases; while few such cases are currently pending, the administration expects an influx of hundreds of new pardon applications by the end of the year."
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