A COURT BATTLE OVER ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW, A WEBSITE REDESIGN, AND WONDERFUL BLOGGERS.
Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s contentious immigration law, is about to take effect July 29. As immigrants decide whether to hightail it out of Phoenix, the Mexican government, The American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Cvil Liberties Union, and many other groups seek to bar the law from taking effect on constitutional grounds in federal court in Arizona.
So the dust hasn’t cleared in Phoenix.
Stay tuned.
In the meantime, the dust hasn’t cleared on my website, either. We’re slowly working on the redesign, but we wanted to keep it up so think of it as a remodel job.
Stay tuned.
My book, ILLEGAL, Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone, [Globe Pequot Press/ Lyons] is due out July 1, and already some wonderful bloggers are giving it some attention. Carmen in the Arid Zone gives the book a thumbs up, and not just because her name is indexed between “cocaine and coyote.” Ted Hesson of Long Island Wins runs an excerpt and generous critique in this post. And the Spar and Bernstein blog also was kind enough to mention the book.
With deepest gratitude, and …..
…..stay tuned!
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I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. All of us ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated, but this is not the case.
I know the proponents of this law say that the majority approves of this law, but the majority is not always right. Would women or non-whites have the vote if we listen to the majority of the day, would the non-whites have equal rights (and equal access to churches, housing, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, schools, colleges and yes water fountains) if we listen to the majority of the day? We all know the answer, a resounding, NO!
Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics and do what is right, not what is just popular with the majority. Some men comprehend discrimination by never have experiencing it in their lives, but the majority will only understand after it happens to them.