SB1070 Update: News tidbits

by David Safier

Here are a few SB1070-related items worth noting.

• Silvana Salcido Esparza, the James Beard award-winning chef at the Barrio Cafe in Phoenix, decided to take a principled stand and speak out against SB1070, telling young people they need to vote to change things. Her business has been booming during a time when things are usually pretty slow.
• An English teacher in Texas was removed from her classroom for making a Hispanic student sit in a front desk while she talked about SB1070 and called Mexicans racists who expect handouts.
• The ACLU and many other groups joined together to file a lawsuit against SB1070. 
• Rima Fakih, an Arab-American, won the Miss USA pageant. Right wingers are screaming foul. Blond Miss Oklahoma would have won, they say, except she was asked about SB1070 and she said she agreed with it.
• Could SB1070 make more illegals immigrants legal? It's one of the possible, unintended consequences of the law. 
• Business in downtown Nogales, AZ, is way down as Mexicans stop coming across the border to shop.
• "[A]bout 60 protesters from Dallas spilled from two Pullman buses outside the Wells Fargo Tower in downtown Phoenix. Waving American flags, they marched along Washington Street for nearly an hour, chanting and holding signs that read 'Repeal SB1070.'"