Ariz. election results a mixed bag when it comes to immigrant rights
Related topics electionLatinoJoe ArpaioImmigrationMexican American Studies Advertisement This election may have been a great deal different from the election of 2010, when Arizona voters approved...
View ArticleLatino Voters Are Using The Election To Finally Get Rid Of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Read the Latest Issue of Lawyers.com’s Criminal Law Newsletter First Poll Results Show Obama-Romney Tie In Georgia, Vote and Get a Free Gun Latinos Mobilize Against Sheriff Joe on Election Day Juror...
View ArticleSheriff Joe Arpaio, illegal immigration hardliner, reelected
Voters in Arizona’s Maricopa County have reelected Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the face of Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law. With 82% of the county’s precincts reporting, the...
View ArticleSelf-proclaimed toughest sheriff wins sixth term
PHOENIX (AP) — The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America breezed past two challengers to win a sixth term as Maricopa County sheriff after facing his most bruising political challenge....
View ArticleMoney, politics top 2012 headlines in Arizona
Money, politics and corruption were among the top headlines in Arizona in 2012. Candidates and outside groups spent big money during the election season. While Republicans were successful in holding...
View ArticleImmigration in Ariz. and across the Nation: 2012 Year in Review
Throughout 2012, issues related to both immigration and Latino rights in this country have continually bubbled to the surface of larger national debates about politics, society and the economy. In...
View ArticleAfter election, Republicans rethinking immigration rhetoric, platform
Related topics electionRepublicanMarco RubioBarack ObamaLatino Advertisement When President Obama defeated Mitt Romney earlier this month in his bid for reelection, one factor that many deemed...
View ArticleArizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Says He Wants Peace With Latinos After Winning...
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has long tangled with Hispanics in Arizona over his harsh immigration policies, but after winning reelection this week, he apparently wants to sit down with them and clear any...
View ArticleBarber request for counting of 133 votes denied
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) The 133 ballots at the heart of a federal lawsuit in southern Arizona over election results in the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District will not be counted after all. U.S....
View ArticleFor immigration activists, March is National Coming Out Month
Over the past several years, Latino communities in the United States have proven their potential for impacting politics and public policy. When President Obama was reelected in November, many analysts...
View ArticleArizona ‘Toughest Sheriff’ Arpaio Wins After Hispanic Opposition
The self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff” was re-elected to a sixth term yesterday in Arizona, defeating a retired police sergeant and overcoming opposition from Hispanic groups. Maricopa County...
View ArticleJoe Arpaio Defeats Paul Penzone
WASHINGTON -- Joe Arpaio won a sixth term on Tuesday as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., after a long and controversial run that has included birther investigations, immigration raids, uninvestigated...
View ArticleMartha McSally, Ron Barber's Opponent, Files To Block Counting Of Provisional...
WASHINGTON -- Attorneys for Martha McSally, the Republican challenger of Rep. Ron Barber (D-Ariz.), filed a motion on Tuesday to make the Cochise County, Ariz., election director stop counting certain...
View ArticleSuit challenges recount in 2nd District race
PHOENIX (AP) An attorney not affiliated with any candidates has filed a lawsuit that challenges the state's plan for a recount in southern Arizona's 2nd Congressional District race between Democratic...
View ArticleSenate group, inc. McCain, Flake announces immigration reform plan
There is a renewed bipartisan effort underway in Washington to push forward significant reforms to our nation’s current immigration laws, and Arizona’s two senators are at the forefront of this...
View ArticleArpaio reelected, ready for sixth term
Related topics ImmigrationArpaioSB1070reelectionMaricopa Countyillegals Advertisement U.S. Illegal immigration number one enemy won reelection Tuesday. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio obtained the...
View ArticleRon Barber, Ex-Aide To Gabrielle Giffords, Trailing In Vote Count For U.S....
By Brad Poole TUCSON, Ariz., Nov 11 (Reuters) - An incumbent U.S. Representative from Arizona and former aide to Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in a 2011 shooting rampage, was narrowly trailing a...
View ArticleEx aide to Gabrielle Giffords trailing in vote count for U.S. House seat
TUCSON Ariz. (Reuters) - An incumbent U.S. Representative from Arizona and former aide to Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in a 2011 shooting rampage, was narrowly trailing a Republican challenger...
View ArticleArizona Latinos Frustrated by Slow Ballot Count
Arizona is still counting ballots more than a week after the election. According to The Arizona Republic, there were still 324,000 votes that had not been tallied as of Tuesday evening, and many of...
View ArticleMcCain, Grijalva educate lawmakers, the public about immigration reform
Arizona is in the immigration spotlight again this week as lawmakers descended on the state’s Southern border for a briefing on border security. Four U.S. senators joined a tour organized by the office...
View ArticleSelf-proclaimed toughest sheriff faces re-election
PHOENIX (AP) — Voters will decide Tuesday whether to give the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America a sixth term as he faces his most serious political challenge. Republican incumbent Joe Arpaio...
View ArticleICE Releases Detained Immigrants in Arizona ahead of Sequester
As the looming across-the-board government spending cuts known as “the sequester” are set to go into effect on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security has shocked many by releasing hundreds of...
View ArticleBetween ranchers and Latinos, Arizona Democrats walk fine line on the border
Finds of migrant corpses on border land make security a hot issue but elsewhere lack of immigration reform fuels frustration ...
View ArticleSheriff Joe Arpaio dodges a recall in Arizona. Still, is his star waning?
Three years after Arizona approved a tough immigration law that brought both praise and disdain from across the nation, most of the measure's standard-bearers are but a memory in state politics....
View ArticleClose congressional races a repeat in Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. In many ways, this year's congressional races in Arizona feel like deja vu. The state is again to some of the nation's most closely watched contests. One race features a rematch between...
View ArticleAfter election victory, Arpaio says he wants to meet with Latinos
November 8, 2012 -- Updated 0421 GMT (1221 HKT) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks next to his wife, Ava Arpaio, on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Arizona. (CNN) -- The Arizona sheriff known...
View ArticleArizonans support immigration reform at D.C. forum
It was Arizona’s turn to speak Wednesday, as a delegation of elected officials from the Grand Canyon State descended on Washington to contribute to the ongoing debate over the recently proposed...
View ArticlePCC Votes to Offer In-State Tuition to Some Undocumented Residents
For some local undocumented youths who have long wished to pursue a college degree, but never thought they could afford to do so, the dream has now become a little more tangible. On Wednesday night,...
View ArticlePima County officials find 208 more ballots
PHOENIX (AP) Pima County elections officials discovered 208 additional ballots on Wednesday from voters in the tightly contested 2nd Congressional District race. County elections officials plan to...
View ArticlePinal County Jail makes list of 10 worst immigrant detention centers
Related topics ImmigrationPrisonPinal CountyArizonaaclu Advertisement This week, Detention Watch Network, a coalition tasked with addressing the problems facing detained immigrants, issued a scathing...
View ArticleRally Monday for Local Immigrant Rights Activist Detained by Police
On Sunday, Tucson Police stopped Rene Meza Huertha, a local father of five, near Ninth Ave. and 23rd St. and took him into custody under suspicion of being undocumented. After attempting to intervene...
View ArticleMartha McSally’s Immigration Record is on the Wrong Side of the Issues (DCCC...
(Source: DCCC - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) Mar 07, 2014 According to a recent Arizona Republic report, "Latino voters in Arizona place a higher priority on immigration reform than...
View ArticleControversial Arizona sheriff Arpaio wins sixth term
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Controversial Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for targeting illegal immigrants, fended off a strong challenge from a Phoenix police veteran on Tuesday to win a sixth four-year...
View ArticleGiffords successor takes lead in Ariz. House race
PHOENIX -- PHOENIX (AP) The hand-picked successor of former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords pulled slightly ahead of his Republican challenger for the first time Friday as more votes were tallied...
View ArticleProtestors gather Sunday in Tucson to fight deportations
More than 200 protestors gathered Sunday morning at the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson as part of a nationwide push to end unjust deportations and subsequent forced separations of immigrant...
View ArticleRepublican wins Arizona House seat after recount
PHOENIX Republicans will have their largest U.S. House majority in 83 years when the new Congress convenes next month after a recount in Arizona gave the final outstanding race to the Republican...
View ArticleBarber files federal lawsuit over uncounted votes
TUCSON, Ariz. U.S. Rep. Ron Barber filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to stop certification of the 2nd Congressional District race in Arizona after the count put his Republican opponent fewer than 200...
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