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By Valeria Fernández New America Media PHOENIX, Ariz. – Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide in Arizona are claiming victory following Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on the state’s immigration law known as SB 1070. “This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court sent a loud message to the governor and the members of the State [...]

Supreme Court Immigration Ruling strips 50 million Chicanos/Latinos of Rights! Immigration or a Historical Labor Issue? Commentary: By Herman Baca President Committee on Chicano Rights To this date, it never ceases to amaze me that the biggest problem/issue (the war in Afghanistan and economy) for the great-great-great grandchildren of immigrants who immigrated to the U.S. [...]

Major League Baseball’s lack of respect for Latinos Commentary: By Alvaro Huerta          Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig recently struck out, big time, by stubbornly refusing to relocate the 82nd All-Star Game from Phoenix, Arizona, to another city due to the desert state’s racist immigration law, SB 1070. Although the core of this draconian [...]

By Valeria Fernandez New America Media Synopsis: It’s unclear how the drop in immigration could affect the rhetoric in Arizona, which already has seen the effects of an exodus of immigrants. PHOENIX — People on both sides of the immigration debate in Arizona are skeptical of new research that shows a national decrease in the [...]

By Valeria Fernandez New America Media     Gov. Jan Brewer plans to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a federal court’s preliminary injunction that blocked major portions of a controversial state immigration law from going into effect. But whether the nation’s highest tribunal will consider ruling on SB 1070 is a whole other story, [...]

Commentary: By Rodolfo F. Acuña    In the mid-sixties, I attended a lecture by Dr. Ernesto Galarza. Someone in the audience asked him why politicos and those in social movements didn’t care about Mexican Americans. Galarza responded that most elected officials that were Democrats cared about Mexican Americans but that we were never their number [...]