Joe Arpaio Partners with FAIR Nativist Extremist Kris Kobach, Arizona ADL Blasts Both

By Stephen Lemons As disturbing as the prospect is of a nativist extremist lawyer like Kris Kobach training all 881 of Sheriff Joe's beigeshirts in immigration law, I have to wonder if it's a sign that Arpaio's throwing in the towel on the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial-profiling lawsuit now underway in federal court. What, was Stormfront's Don Black not available? Maybe Tom Metzger could take a break from running his white nationalist Web site The Insurgent to come down and offer som...

ICE Colluded with Corrupt Corporation Abusing Immigrant Workers

A NY Times article yesterday broke the story of Signal Int’l and ICE officials’ misconduct, abusing hundreds of immigrant workers. The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice , with the Lawyer’s Committee on Civil Rights and the NAACP have filed a lawsuit, and is calling on advocates to help expose ICE’s misconduct, and to expand this story with a national echo chamber. The New Orleans Workers’ Center ran a press conference today, and will be coordinating actions over the next few week...

UT Editorial: Another Inconvenient Truth

Originally published in the UT Friday, January 29, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. Nativist lore has it that immigrants only come to the United States for the handouts. Supposedly, whether they arrive legally or illegally, their chief ambition is to simply collect welfare, milk social services and otherwise sponge off America’s generosity. For more than 200 years, the narrative has been that newcomers are constantly taking, using and consuming without giving back to the country that received them. That...

SDNN.com: Immigrants’ contributions subject of statewide report

Immigrants contribute 25 percent of the San Diego region’s GDP, they comprise nearly one-third of the labor force in town, and they represent almost a quarter of residents in San Diego County. These and other findings were presented in the newly released report “Looking Forward: Immigrant Contributions to the Golden State,” a document that features statewide data and regional statistics on information such as immigrant tax contributions, rates of entrepreneurship, and numbers of eligible vote...