His campaign says will be different. For years, Arizona's immigration-enforcement charge has been led by senior lawmakers. Lately, many of the most aggressive immigration bills were crafted by freshman state Senator Steve Smith. As Arizona continues to battle with the federal government over immigration policy, some cities are stepping up to make a statement of their own.
Democrats in the state legislature say it's time to repeal the law. Their Republicans counterparts pledge to block any attempt at changing the controversial law. Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce helped enact tough laws enforcing immigration regulations on a state level, including the controversial SB Some voters think it went too far.
The recall of Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce could lead to a discussion about immigration focused on solutions instead of rhetoric.
Members of the Tea Party say there are others to carry on the cause. Just months after he lost his seat in a recall election, Russell Pearce announces he will run again for state senate. He said he will run in a newly drawn, yet still conservative, district in Mesa. Inspired by Arizona's strict immigration enforcement law, a California assembly member has introduced a similar bill in the Golden State. A Kansas State Representative has introduced a resolution modeled after the Utah Compact, both of which are aimed at changing the tone of the immigration debate.
The head of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Diego says he and his staff helped craft the lawsuit against Arizona's controversial new immigration law. The ACLU and other civil rights groups sued all Arizona counties and sheriffs on Monday arguing the law is unconstitutional. Jump to navigation. In the spring of , one year after the Arizona state legislature passed the controversial state law SB , the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program in partnership with the Southwest Institute for Research on Women , set out to research the impact of SB on youth in Arizona.
The law, designed to reduce the size of Arizona's undocumented immigrant population through aggressive state enforcement of federal immigration laws, has never been fully implemented due to a court injunction. However, there is no question that SB has had real effects on the state. The Bacon Program and SIROW sought to understand the impact of the law on youth, in particular, because these effects were not as immediately visible as the economic impact of the law's passage, but have potentially equally significant implications for the future of the state.
Puente has been at the forefront of the fight against SB We will continue to organize until our communities are free from racial profiling practices by law enforcement officials, and are able to live in our communities without fear of deportation. As an organization we remember the legacy of resistance we were able to create 10 years ago to fight SB and continue to honor the organizational growth and community empowerment that has stemmed from our state.
We mark the last decade as a monument to how far we have come in the fight for human rights in our state. As an organization we will continue to fight law enforcement officials who comply with ICE and who use racial profiling tactics to intimidate and separate our communities. We will continue to organize and build the community we need to fight against and repeal this policy. The passage of SB represents a moment in Arizona's history where communities and organizations across the state came together to fight one of the nation's most egregious anti-migratory laws.
Republican Senator Russel Pearce introduced SB to the Arizona state legislature with the intention of streamlining statewide police state practices, whereby local law enforcement would be allowed the discretion to ask any person to disclose their immigration status based on reasonable suspicion. SB served as the nation's catalyst law to enforce a statewide attrition through enforcement strategy.
This meant passing a law so flagrant that it would restrict the rights and liberties of migrants, forcing them to self-deport or end up in the crimmigration pipeline. SB was one of the most adverse immigration laws the United States had seen at the time; it would become the blueprint model for other anti-migrant states to follow.
Our community refused to accept the passage and implementation of the law -- we fought back. As a human rights organization, we developed multiple different tactics to fight SB Arizona citizens and residents that opposed federal and state anti-migratory policy were given the opportunity to show solidarity with immigrant communities though non-compliance. Anti-migratory law SB depends on the compliance of citizens to perform the duty of carrying identification at all times in order to validate their citizenship status in the country.
On July 29 th , the same day that SB came into effect, the Puente Movement launched a campaign of non-compliance that encouraged all individuals who were in opposition of SB to protest the law by not carrying any state issued identification such as a driver's license or state identification card.
Non-compliance is the practice of refusing to abet immigration policy by refusing to comply with state orders to report immigrants, deny help to immigrants, and carry identification. A key strategy in fighting against SB was developing organized communities. We established over 35 CDB communities across Maricopa County and trained other community organizations across the state with the model for local implementation. In , when other states like Georgia and Alabama adopted and implemented their own versions of SB copycat laws, Puente would also share this model to help defend communities across the nation from the Poli-Migra pipeline to deportation.
Our Community Defense project would eventually transition into the creation and development of our Curso de Defensa Community Defense Course.
The Community Defense Course works to empower migrants through education and establish mastery of skills including Organizing and KYR, which enable members to defend themselves from deportation. The Curso de Defensa is broken down into six-week class set courses that engage families in learning about the immigration system and developing organizing skills.
The fight to stop SB organized students from universities, community colleges, and high schools to play their part in educating and mobilizing students to take action and pressure Arizona leadership to stop the law. These students were known as the Capital 9. Although the risk of being undocumented was present, it was significant that young people were the ones who came out to represent their parents, families, and communities.
During these times DREAMers did not know what the future of SB held, but it was understood that they had to be organized and lead in the fight against the law.
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