by David Safier I doubt anyone is resting easy after Russell Pearce's 5 anti-immigrant bills were defeated, but if you were, Pearce is putting you on notice in an op ed in Politico. The Arizona Senate on March 18 voted down five immigration bills I supported — most notably, one addressing the issue of birthright … Read more
by David Safier I posted Saturday about Utah's conservative Sutherland Institute creating a website, notaz.org: "Utah is Not Arizona." The subject of the website is Utah's more enlightened attitude toward immigration. Now it's Illinois using Arizona as a symbol of anti-immigrant hysteria. When the state assembly defeated 10 anti-immigrant bills, the way they defined the … Read more
by David Safier I'm presenting this without comment or judgement, because I don't know anything about the source, but I find it to be interesting commentary on the Mormon Church, conservative politics and immigration. The writer is Joanna Brooks on the Religion Dispatches Magazine blog. She describes herself as someone who "grew up in a … Read more
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… OK, so that's a little overwrought, and more than a little unoriginal. 🙂 It was definitely a "mixed bag" sort of week, with some genuinely horrible legislation moving forward while some equally horrible legislation was (surprisingly) … Read more
by David Safier It's heartening to see cracks in the Republican Party. John Boehner is having trouble holding his troops together. Some of Arizona's Republican state legislators are beginning to rebel a bit against Pearce's iron-fisted rule. And then there's Utah. As I posted the other day, Utah passed some less-than-awful immigration legislation with the … Read more