Arizona’s new immigration law which is slated to take effect on July 29, to give ‘Racism a Place To Hide‘ — has been gutted. Judge Susan Bolton granted an injunction halting the enforcement of key provisions of the Arizona immigration enforcement law — ruling in favor of the U.S. Justice Department.

Today’s ruling came after the judge heard arguments from the U.S. Department of Justice, the ACLU and co., last week. In her ruling, Judge Bolton recognized that the law would lead to the “intrusion of police presence into the lives of legally-present aliens (and even United States citizens), who will necessarily be swept up by [its requirements].”

But today, let’s make it clear that the unconstitutional “show me your papers” law does not belong in Arizona, or anywhere else racist Republicans try to promote racial profiling. Sign the ACLU’s petition to all governors: HERE.

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From The National Council of La Raza:

Washington, DC — Calling it an “unequivocal victory for Latinos and an important first step to repealing SB 1070,” Janet Murguia, President and CEO of NCLR (National Council of La Raza), applauded today’s decision to block sections of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled that the law will still take effect Thursday but will not include sections that would have required officers to verify a person’s immigration status and compelled immigrants to carry their documents at all times.

“Not only did the judge side with the Latino community, she sided with the Constitution. This is an unequivocal victory. The ruling enjoins the crux of the law that would have legitimized racial profiling,” said Murguia.

“But the work is not done. We know that the injunction is temporary and likely to be appealed and that the suspended sections can still be reinstated. The Arizona legislature has also signaled that it will move forward with even more draconian measures, and other states are still considering similar legislation,” added Murguia.

NCLR, the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, is among leading civil rights, labor, and faith organizations that have organized to boycott Arizona. The boycott and a call to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 MLB All-Star Game from Arizona will remain in effect until the law is permanently repealed, overturned by the courts, or superseded by federal comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

“We cannot focus on false solutions. Today’s ruling makes clear that the power to pass effective comprehensive immigration reform lies with the president and Congress. If the two senators from Arizona would step up, then we could deliver the solution that Arizona and the nation need,” Murguia continued. “The effects of this law have already spread to other states that believe they can tackle the problem, but solutions must be made at the federal level, and Washington needs to act.”

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“If you’re in Arizona and look even remotely like some policeman’s idea of an illegal immigrant, a law signed today says you will have to produce papers showing you’re in the USA legally whenever and where-ever an officer requests this — and so will anyone else with you. Now, faith leaders are calling this new law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer this afternoon, a sin against God and man and at least one says believers should not comply.”

Arizona’s draconian new immigration law requires alien registration documents at all times and requires police officers to question people if there’s reason to suspect they’re in the United States illegally.

This un-American and unconstitutional law opens the door wide open to racial profiling. If you’re Hispanic don’t leave home without your birth certificate or passport, if you are planning a trip to Arizona.

It seems like we are going back to a time when African Americans avoided driving through the Deep South, because they didn’t want to deal with the deeply ingrained racism. Only now its Latinos, and other dark-skinned persons who look Hispanic, who need to avoid a geographic area in the Land of Freedom.

I’m a Hispanic, and I will avoid Arizona like the plague. I don’t want to be stopped and harassed by the cops because I have a “La Raza” bumper sticker on my car.

I urge, not only Latinos, but every American who abhors this racist law, to boycott Arizona. This Hispanic isn’t going to spend his discretionary income in the racist state of Arizona.

President Obama, the heads of many faith-based groups, and other people of good will have condemned this harsh measure. It’s incumbent upon all of us who cherish freedom and despise intolerance to speak out.

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From Presente.org: Dear Reader, Arizona has gone too far. It’s time to take action against the state. Arizona’s governor just signed SB 1070 into law, effectively making it legal to racially profile in the state. The bill requires local law enforcement to question anyone they have “reasonable suspicion” of being undocumented. Translation: you could be pulled over for no other reason than that you are brown-skinned or speak Spanish. That Gov. Jan Brewer could sign such a discriminatory law – one of the worst in the nation – is a moral outrage. We need to send a clear message that Arizona does not deserve economic support from the rest of the country. Tourism is a huge industry in the state – bringing in $18 billion last year. With the passage of SB 1070, it’s time to say shame on Arizona and pledge not spend our dollars in a place where racial profiling is legal. Will you join us?: http://act.presente.org/go/shame?mid=1751-27240 The bill that Gov. Brewer just signed makes it a misdemeanor to lack proper paperwork in Arizona. It also requires police officers to attempt to determine a person’s immigration status if they form a “reasonable suspicion” that someone is undocumented. Leading police chiefs and sheriffs have even expressed outrage at the bill’s signing, saying that it will cause immigrants to avoid reporting crimes, and divert officers’ attention from going after violent offenders. The conservatives who passed SB 1070 may not care about Latino communities feeling safe, but they definitely care about the tourism industry that brings in billions of dollars to the state. We need to show them that their decisions have consequences. Will you join us? It only takes a moment: http://act.presente.org/go/shame?mid=1751-27240 Thank you and Adelante! Favianna, Laurie, Roberto and the rest of the Presente.org team ________________________________________

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The Howls of a Fading Species

   [ By: Bob Herbert ]
One can only hope that the hysterical howling of right-wingers against the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is something approaching a death rattle for this profoundly destructive force in American life.

It’s hard to fathom the heights of hypocrisy currently being scaled by the foaming-in-the-mouth crazies who are leading the charge against the nomination. Newt Gingrich, who never needed a factual basis for his ravings, rants on Twitter that Judge Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist,” apparently unaware of his incoherence in the “Latina-woman” redundancy in this defamatory characterization.

Karl Rove sneered that Ms. Sotomayor was “not necessarily” smart, thus managing to get the toxic issue of intelligence into play in the case of a woman who graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, went on to get a law degree from Yale and has more experience as a judge than any of the current justices had at the time of their nominations to the court.

It turns the stomach. There is no level of achievement sufficient to escape the stultifying bonds of bigotry. It is impossible to be smart enough or accomplished enough.

The amount of disrespect that has spattered the nomination of Judge Sotomayor is disgusting. She is spoken of, in some circles, as if she were the lowest of the low. Rush Limbaugh — now there’s a genius! — has compared her nomination to a hypothetical nomination of David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. “How can a president nominate such a candidate?” Limbaugh asked.

Ms. Sotomayor is a member of the National Council of La Raza, the Hispanic civil rights organization. In the crazy perspective of some right-wingers, the mere existence of La Raza should make decent people run for cover. La Raza is “a Latino K.K.K. without the hoods and the nooses,” said Tom Tancredo, a Republican former congressman from Colorado.

Here’s the thing. Suddenly these hideously pompous and self-righteous white males of the right are all concerned about racism. They’re so concerned that they’re fully capable of finding it in places where it doesn’t for a moment exist. Not just finding it, but being outraged by it to the point of apoplexy. Oh, they tell us, this racism is a bad thing!

Are we supposed to not notice that these are the tribunes of a party that rose to power on the filthy waves of racial demagoguery. I don’t remember hearing their voices or the voices of their intellectual heroes when the Republican Party, as part of its Southern strategy, aggressively courted the bigots who fled the Democratic Party because the Democrats had become insufficiently hostile to blacks.

Where were the howls of outrage at this strategy that was articulated by Lee Atwater as follows: “By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.”

Never a peep did you hear.

Where were the right-wing protests when Ronald Reagan went out of his way to kick off his general election campaign in 1980 with a salute to states’ rights in, of all places, Philadelphia, Miss., not far from the site where three young civil rights workers had been snatched and murdered by real-life, rabid, blood-thirsty racists?

We’ve heard ad nauseam Ms. Sotomayor’s comments — awkwardly stated but hardly racist — about what she brings to the bench as a Latina. But how often have we ever heard the awful, hateful position on race offered up by William F. Buckley, the right’s ultimate intellectual champion? He felt comfortable declaring, in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision ordering the desegregation of public schools, that whites had every right to discriminate against blacks because whites belonged to “the advanced race.”

Right-wing howls of protest? I think not.

Ms. Sotomayor’s nomination is a big deal because never before in the history of the United States has any president nominated a Latina to the highest court. Only two blacks have ever been on the court, and the one selected by a Republican has been like a thumb in the eye to most African-Americans.

The court is a living monument to America’s long history of exclusion based on race, ethnic background and gender. Where is the right-wing protest against that?

It was always silly to pretend that the election of Barack Obama was evidence that the U.S. was moving into some sort of post-racial, post-ethnic, post-gender nirvana. But it did offer a basis for optimism. There is every reason to hope that we’ve improved as a society to the point where the racial and ethnic craziness of the Gingriches and Limbaughs will finally have a tough time finding any sort of foothold.

Those types can still cause a lot of trouble, but the ridiculousness of their posture is pretty widely recognized. Thus the desperate howling.

The Anti-Immigrant SKUNK from Colorado, former congressman Tom Tancredo could not resist the smell of LATINA STEW. The filthy bigot who would love to see every single immigrant removed from the United States, is officially out of his hiding hole, with his anal scent glands excreting a strong foul-smelling odor of Racism. Even in retirement, this scumbag cannot hide his hatred for Latinos.

   President Obama Nominated Judge Sotomayor To The Supreme Court on Tuesday

Appearing on CNN, Tancredo suggested that Judge Sotomayor’s affiliation with the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, was equivalent to being a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

A congressman from the 6th Congressional District until he retired last year, Tancredo has made statements over the years threatening to bomb Mecca, calling Miami a Third World city and suggesting the U.S.-Mexico border wall separate Brownsville, Texas, from the rest of America.

Two years ago, before giving up his failed presidential campaign, Tancredo famously sang “Dixie” standing in front of Confederate flags in Columbia, S.C. His audience: a secessionist group and others called bigoted hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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