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A bill passed last week by the Arizona Senate, SB 1070, criminalizing undocumented immigrants is the most draconian of its kind in the nation. Voted for by every single Republican in the state House and Senate, it is expected to be signed into law by Republican Governor Jan Brewer this week. The bill requires that any undocumented immigrant found in Arizona will be arrested for trespassing, jailed for up to six months and fined up to $2,500. Local law enforcement officers would have the authority to stop any vehicle that they suspect has an undocumented person, and demand identification. Additionally, anyone helping an undocumented person could be charged, which in the language of the bill means “transporting, harboring or concealing unlawful aliens.” Proponents of the bill say that it is necessary in the face of no immigration reform at the federal level, where immigration laws are usually passed and enforced. But opponents of the bill have likened it to tactics seen under Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, and the Jim Crow era in the US. They vow to defeat the law in court. Arizona has been on the fore-front of anti-immigrant laws in the nation. Five years ago, it passed a law banning human smuggling, which has been used to prosecute people who hire a “coyote” to smuggle them across the US-Mexico border. The state also has one of the harshest employer-sanctions laws in the country, and late last year, it passed a new law which requires all state and public employees to report to immigration authorities anybody who attempts to apply for public benefits without papers. Meanwhile just days after SB 1070 passing, the federal immigration agency ICE, under the Department of Homeland Security, launched the largest raids targeting human smuggling in its 8 year history in the Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tuscon. The raid carried out by more than 800 federal and local agents, caused widespread panic among residents, particularly in Phoenix where Maricopa County’s notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced just a day earlier that he would be launching a “crime suppression sweep.” <\/p>\n
GUESTS: Kat Rodriguez, Coordinator of Derechos Humanos in Tucson, Arizona, Xiomara Corpeno, Director of Organizing and Membership with CHIRLA<\/em><\/p>\n For more information visit, http:\/\/www.derechoshumanosaz.net<\/a>, http:\/\/www.altoarizona.com<\/a> and http:\/\/www.ndlon.ort<\/a> Read provisions of the bill here: http:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/legtext\/49leg\/2r\/summary\/s.1070pshs.doc.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program A bill passed last week by the Arizona Senate, SB 1070, criminalizing undocumented immigrants is the most draconian of its kind in the nation. Voted for by every single Republican in the state House and Senate, it is expected to be signed into law by Republican Governor Jan Brewer this week. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nContact Xiomara Corpeno at xcorpeno@chirla.org for information about tonight’s meeting for an LA delegation traveling to Arizona<\/p>\n