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June 14, 2010 Pinal County Sheriff: Cartels Control Parts of Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says that Mexican drug cartels now control parts of Arizona stretching from the border to Phoenix. "Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's border to metro Phoenix. The area , once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers," says MaryEllen Resendez with ABC News.
SPLC: Amnesty Advocates, Not Impartial Sources Reporters beware: for those who thought the Southern Poverty Law Center was a neutral broker on immigration policy, they are actually pushing their own agenda in what has increasingly become a partisan policy debate. As recently as 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found funding to start attacking immigration reformers nationwide - attacks that have now become part of their daily "to do" list. Early on, SPLC staffers justified their polemical assault by claiming they were detached and disinterested observers of the immigration debate, telling reporters the SPLC doesn't even have an immigration policy position. Now the truth is out - and it turns out they lied. Recently, the SPLC not only began litigating immigration issues, but it has taken legislative positions in favor of amnesty - joining open-borders coalitions virulently opposed to all border enforcement. Most recently, they've joined the "Immigration Reform for America" coalition - the main amnesty coalition in the U.S. So much for claiming to be a neutral broker on the immigration issue. Even more recently, SPLC staffers have spent months culling through public archives of materials donated by FAIR and others in this movement in their attempt to smear political opponents. The SPLC ignores 99.99% of the professional and creditable material before their very eyes, all the while trying to find evidence of bias or unsavory motives in an arcane fragment here and there. To some, this open access position of the immigration reform movement is a tribute to our commitment to openness and the spirit of free inquiry. It would be interesting to know where one can go to examine the private papers of Morris Dees, Richard Cohen or old SPLC organizational files. An innocent inquiry into a few SPLC financial matters by the Montgomery Advertiser earned that paper more than a few legal threats from SPLC lawyers. Award winning reporters like Jerry Kammer and Ken Silverstein (Harpers) have published block-buster exposes on the unethical practices of the SPLC. But do they even respond? The SPLC's revelatory behavior is leading more and more people to see the organization for what is really is - an organization out of step with the challenges facing America in the 21st Century and reduced to DaVinci Code-style "exposes" aimed at getting donations from anyone credulous enough to believe them. Beyond a cozy relationship with the liberal fringe parked at MSNBC, the SPLC's pretensions of being an arbiter of acceptable speech and thought are viewed with increasing skepticism.
Clarence Jones: Arizona Law Opponents Should Protest Mexico's Policy "As an African-American who lived through and before the Civil Rights Movement, I'm no fan of assessing people based on their skin color. But holding a struggling State's feet to the fire on tactics is missing the point . Why are protests not being directed to our national government and the government of Mexico? Why aren't these groups demanding that our porous border with Mexico be closed, once and for all? It's not impossible," says Clarence Jones at the Huffington Post.
Texas GOP Moves to Support Arizona-Style Law "Texas Republicans voted Saturday to call for a state law to require local police officers to verify that people arrested on suspicion of a crime are in the country legally. If Republicans have their way, the Legislature would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to "intentionally or knowingly" be in the state of Texas. The proposal, similar to the controversial law in Arizona, is part of the legislative priorities section of the platform approved Saturday at the state GOP convention in Dallas," the Southern Political Report says. The Houston Chronicle has more coverage.
Sheriff's Deputies Raid Sizzler Restaurants in AZ Maricopa Sheriff Deputies raided several Sizzler restaurants to enforce the law against hiring illegal immigrants. "The raids were part of a yearlong investigation into whether the operators of the two Sizzler locations broke a civil law by knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brian Lee said in a statement," the AP reported.
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