SB 1070

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<p>W<img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-18648" title="brown skin poster" src="/sites/default/files/2012/08/brown-skin-poster-300x162.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="162">hen historians examine Arizona’s early 21st century, including the anti-immigrant SB 1070 and the anti-Ethnic Studies HB 2281, the question they will ask of intellectuals is not what side they were on? Instead, they will ask, what did you do?<br>

<p><span style="font-size: large;">Arizona’s Freedom Summer continues</span></p>
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<p>Iconic images are those that stand the test of time and become engraved in our psyche. They freeze a moment and tell a story. They create truths and inform our memories. For instance, the intense human rights struggle in Arizona has managed to produce several powerful iconic images for our times.</p>

Editorial:

This past week was a glorious one as the 4th of July celebra-tion fell in the middle of the week. There is nothing like a few extra days off during a hot summer. Many of us enjoyed the baseball All-Star game, a weekend barbecue, previews of the start of a nice football season right around the corner, and best of all the wonderful summer days which provide us with the opportunity to just relax.

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<strong>Jewish News of Greater Phoenix</strong></p>
<p><strong>PHOENIX, Ariz.</strong> — In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-3 ruling that strikes down three parts of SB1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law, and keeps intact Section 2, which has been dubbed by its foes as “show me your papers,” a consensus appears to be building among Jewish voices in the state calling for Congress to reform immigration laws and enforcement, while securing the border.</p>

Commentary:
By Rodolfo F. Acuña

The day the Supreme Court handed down its decision Arizona’s SB 1070, I received about a dozen text messages saying, “We won!”

Knowing the history of the Court and dealing with this sort of wrongheaded thinking since the Bakke Case of 1978, I knew that I had to be skeptical and quickly read the incoming news, which using boxing jargon said that it was a split decision, that the court had struck down three key provisions of the law and kept one.

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>MESA, Az</strong>. — Mesa voters got their say in a historical election that resulted in the recall of Republican Senator Russell Pearce, also known as the architect of SB 1070.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pearce conceded defeat in a brief press conference in the City of Mesa surrounded by politicians, friends and controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.</p>

<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>PHOENIX, Arizona</strong> — The decision by the Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza to call off a year-long boycott of Arizona for its passage of one of the nation’s toughest anti-immigrant pieces of legislation is being met with opposition by grassroots organizations determined to keep up the pressure.</p>