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UN Investigator Cites Arizona Immigration Law as Example of Racism That Migrants Face
Tuesday, November 02, 2010 United Nations (AP) - A U.N. independent investigator says migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of Racial Discrimination and xenophobia. Githu M.I.A., a Kenyan Law Professor, said many other groups are also Victims, including ethnic Minorities attacked because of their minority status, individuals stopped and searched because of their perceived religious or ethnic background, and football players in...

Report: The Immigration Dirty Dozen
The 2010 mid-term campaign season is shaping up to be the most vicious, vitriolic election cycle in recent memory. The issue of Immigration is a perfect example. Distortions, lies, and stereotypes dominate the airwaves when it comes to immigrants and Latinos. From threats of violence against immigrants to calls for mass Deportation, Candidates across the country are unleashing a torrent of Hate Speech that is both alarming and un-American. Who’s the worst of the worst? To be honest, it was...

Legals Not in Support of Illegals
First, yeah, I know ... More "Latino" references. Second, what exactly do these People pushing the "undocumented worker" meme think? That everyone in Arizona supporting Gov. Jan Brewer's re-election and agreeing with her on AZ SB 1070 are all white? And do they really believe other states with heavy "Hispanic" LEGAL populations just agreed with Illegal aliens invading this country simply because they were the same 'race'? This effects them and their communities too. Not only that, but I have to...

Court signals backing for Arizona immigration law
Raymond Herrera (left), a supporter of the Arizona law, argues with Gerardo Marin outside the U.S. Court of Appeals building in San Francisco. Stocks rise before Elections, Fed meeting 11.02.10 (11-01) 16:14 PST San Francisco -- A Federal appeals Court appeared willing Monday to reinstate, but weaken, a central provision of an Arizona law allowing Police to stop and question suspected Illegal Immigrants. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals indicated that it would autho...

Swiss poised to vote on controversial immigrant law
Switzerland is poised to vote on a Controversial law that will allow for all immigrants – EU citizens included – to be automatically expelled from the country if they commit a crime....

UN Cites Arizona Immigration Law as Example of Racism That Migrants Face, Says It Violates Basic Human Rights
Watch your back Governor Brewer, I sense a UN-issued sternly worded letter might be heading your way… United Nations (AP) - A U.N. independent investigator says migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of Racial Discrimination and xenophobia. Githu M.I.A., a Kenyan Law Professor, said many other groups are also Victims, including ethnic Minorities attacked because of their minority status, individuals stopped and searc...

Its Just Voting, Right?
In my jurisdiction (in Montgomery County, Maryland), poll workers are supposed to confirm the identity of Voters by asking them for their name, address, and date of birth and confirming those against the voter rolls. Except they didn’t this morning. I gave only my name, and was given a magnetic card and told to go and vote. It so happens that I am in fact who I claim to be, but if I had given them a neighbor’s name I could easily have voted in that neighbor’s place. Given how m...

Cameron's EU Muddle
Here‘s the WSJ‘s Iain Martin with a sharp post on how David Cameron’s clumsy response to the EU’s extravagant budgetary demands was not just unforgivably maladroit but also, and much more significantly, a major missed opportunity. A key extract follows: David Cameron’s “I am a Eurosceptic, honestly” remarks in the aftermath of the EU summit last week were uttered in a plaintive tone. As though the PM realized that he had been rolled over b...

Lottery gives residency to fortunate immigrants
Inside a passport-photo van posted at the federal Immigration office in Philadelphia, Annie Mehdeh took her shot at perhaps the most important game of chance she will ever play. She uploaded her head shots and personal data into a computer, then pressed her palms together and prayed. If the 58-year-old Liberian wins, she will be allowed to stay in America forever, as will her teenage daughter. Mehdeh had just entered the U.S. government's Diversity Visa Lottery, a 15-year-old sweepstakes that an...

Lottery gives residency to fortunate immigrants
Inside a passport-photo van posted at the federal Immigration office in Philadelphia, Annie Mehdeh took her shot at perhaps the most important game of chance she will ever play. She uploaded her head shots and personal data into a computer, then pressed her palms together and prayed. If the 58-year-old Liberian wins, she will be allowed to stay in America forever, as will her teenage daughter. Mehdeh had just entered the U.S. government's Diversity Visa Lottery, a 15-year-old sweepstakes that an...

Poland, Germany promise Belarus euro3 billion if it holds fair presidential vote
MINSK, Belarus — Germany and Poland said Tuesday that the EU could offer euro3 Billion in aid to Belarus if its presidential vote is free and fair. Guido Westerwelle and Radek Sikorski, the foreign ministers of Germany and Poland, said after meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday that better relations between the European Union and Belarus hinge on the Dec. 19 election. Westerwelle said that the ex-Soviet nation's "bridge to Europe should rest on piers of demo...

Ninth Circuit Gives Skeptical Ear to Arguments on SB1070
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments from the Federal Government and the state of Arizona over the anti-immigrant Law SB 1070. The Appellate Court is examining U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton’s decision to enjoin its most Controversial portions back in July. SB 1070 makes it a state crime to be undocumented in Arizona, and gives Law Enforcement officers the right to question and investigate a person’s Immigration status while they’re enforc...

SSRN-Asian Americans and Immigration Reform by Bill Hing
Abstract: Asian Americans have a lot to gain from progressive Immigration Reform. Today, our relatives abroad make up the bulk of those who are on a Waiting List that can last almost two decades in some categories. Many young men and women from our communities face Deportation even though they have grown up in the United States. Some are subjected to harsh Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Raids and detention policies. Of the estimated twelve million undocumented immigrants in the co...

Diverse district pits 2 minorities
In any other race, it could have been doomsday. But when Rep. Loretta Sanchez told Univision in September that Vietnamese voters in her California Congressional District were trying to steal her seat from Hispanics, it had only a moderate effect among the District's large Vietnamese population. Part of that, one Vietnamese newspaper editor told a local Television Station, is that the comments had to be translated from Spanish to English to Vietnamese — and by that time, many Vietnamese vot...

Diverse district pits 2 minorities
In any other race, it could have been doomsday. But when Rep. Loretta Sanchez told Univision in September that Vietnamese voters in her California Congressional District were trying to steal her seat from Hispanics, it had only a moderate effect among the District's large Vietnamese population. Part of that, one Vietnamese newspaper editor told a local Television Station, is that the comments had to be translated from Spanish to English to Vietnamese — and by that time, many Vietnamese vot...

Really? Peruvian Sheepherder Edition
Republican Christine Mastin has been getting some press lately in her bid to unseat Daniel Kagan in the traditionally Democratic HD3. Reporter Lynn Bartels of the Denver newspaper has penned a series of positive pieces on Mastin, including Mastin's serving as the mouthpiece of the GOP's cosmetic outreach to Latino voters. Such efforts, we continue to believe, are not going to be viewed as successful in the larger context of of the de facto GOP ticket (Tom Tancredo), but Mastin easily makes a bet...

Allies in austerity
Britain and France are being forced by Budget Cut-backs and the lack of their own strategic capability to co-operate more closely on defence. They both want to be global players but increasingly lack the resources to remain so. A series of measures is being formally agreed at a summit in London on Tuesday between Prime Minister David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy. The Chief of the British Defence Staff General Sir David Richards has said they will develop an "expeditionary Joint for...

Immigration and the Reddish Yellow Menace
If you try to work out Brad DeLong’s Midterm questions you’ll see that if China ever does overtake the US in per capita GDP terms, it’ll take a very long time for it to happen. At the same time, China’s much larger population means they can overtake us in total output much faster than that. For most purposes, of course, the per capita figure matters much more. Aggregation doesn’t change the fact that individual Indian people are incredibly poor. But in terms of the...

One part of Arizona immigration law may be upheld
Reporting from San Francisco — A Federal appeals Court, reviewing Arizona's tough new Immigration Law while protestors outside shouted and waved signs, suggested during a hearing Monday that the state may be permitted to require police to investigate the Immigration status of suspected criminals and yet be powerless to do anything about a person's Illegal residency. During an hourlong hearing, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals examined four provisions of the Arizona Law that a feder...

Sherrod's Attorney Blasts ABC, Says Hosting Breitbart Is 'Like Rewarding a Klansman'
Shirley Sherrod's longtime attorney criticized ABC News for allowing Andrew Breitbart to appear as a commentator on its Election Night web coverage, comparing the planned appearance to rewarding a Klan member for burning a cross. Rose Sanders, who has known Sherrod for decades, said Breitbart's appearance on ABC's Tuesday night online coverage following his distortion last summer of a video clip of Sherrod is tantamount to rewarding a Racist. In an interview with Media Matters on Sunday, Sande...

From the Bookshelves: Racial Propositions Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California by Daniel Martinez HoSang
  Racial Propositions Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California by Daniel Martinez HoSang This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the Controversial history of California's Ballot Measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public Affirmative Action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other Measures. Why did a state with a liberal political cultu...

Judge Questions Justice Department's Lawsuit Against Arizona Immigration Law
Judge questions Justice Department's Lawsuit against Arizona Immigration Law Washington Post A Federal Appellate judge expressed deep skepticism Monday about a Justice Department Lawsuit challenging Arizona's new Immigration law, leaving uncertain the Obama Administration's chances of stopping the law from taking effect. Judge John T. Noonan Jr. grilled Administration lawyers at a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He took aim at the core of the Justice Department's...

Berlusconi with gay slur after sex scandal
Published: Nov. 2, 2010 at 2:39 PM Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives for the Nuclear Security Summit, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, April 12, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch ROME, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Tuesday dismissed demands, stemming from his alleged links to an Underage girl, for his Resignation, instead claiming it's better to go after beautiful women than to be gay. Speaking at a motorcycle show in Milan, Berlusconi, 74, said he was working...

Countdown to Destruction
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Among Barbara Tuchman’s many sins as an historian was the notion, propagated in her popular volume The Guns of August (1962), that the Great Powers had more or less blundered into conflict in 1914, and that smarter Diplomacy might well have prevented the Great War. So pervasive is the Tuchman Thesis that it is now a recurring parlor game to guess which combination of dangerous facts and blind statesmen--this was most popular d...

Suzlon eyes China's wind power market
Published: Nov. 2, 2010 at 1:11 PM Beijing, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Indian Wind Turbine giant Suzlon Energy said it plans to increase its presence in China, anticipating that China will become the Wind Energy hot spot of the future, a company official said. Tulsi Tanti, chairman of Suzlon, the largest Wind Turbine manufacturer in Asia, cited the market potential of the Chinese Government's goal of increasing Wind power capacity from about 20 gigawatts at year-end 2009 to 90 gigawatts by 2015, India's Da...