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At the Billboard Latin Music Awards, yesterday Ricky Martin called out Arizona’s new immigration law as racist. Ricky Martin thinks the new Arizona law is totally loca. The singer told the crowd at last night’s Billboard Latin Music Awards that the legislation allowing police to stop anyone they think may be an illegal immigrant simply “makes no sense.” This being …

Despite the public outcry about the new law in Arizona, Democrats are pushing to force all Americans to carry a biometric ID card. From their immigration reform bill: The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment. It would require all workers across the nation to …

“Well it all starts with the federal government not coming out with a law. They’ve been talking about it for years and they still haven’t done anything about it. And Arizona is really getting crime-ridden. There’s people coming over, there’s killings all over the place, there’s shootings all over the place. What are you going to do? I mean, are …

Iowa GOP congressional candidate Dr. Pat Bertroche says the government should put microchips in illegal immigrants. Just like we do with dogs at the pound. Speaking at a forum Monday in Toledo, 3rd District Republican candidate Pat Bertroche said police should catch illegal immigrants and document their whereabouts. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported that he added, “I can microchip my …

The speaker of the California Senate yesterday asked the Governator to “tear up” any contracts between the state and Arizona as calls for a boycott continue to swell. In another swipe at Arizona and its strict new anti-immigration rules, California Senate leader Darrell Steinberg on Tuesday asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to “deliver an unequivocal message” of disgust by tearing up …

You’ve GOT to at least watch Gov. Jan Brewer’s reaction when asked, “What DOES an illegal immigrant look like?”

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

From Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s Facebook page: “Had such a great time with Sarah Palin last night that we went to the Diamondbacks game today before she left town. It was great talking to her about my efforts here in Arizona of securing our borders, fighting Obama Care and preserving our 2nd Amendment rights.”

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hold a meeting tomorrow to consider “emergency legislation” cutting the city’s ties with Arizona. Supervisor David Campos this morning confirmed that he will tomorrow introduce emergency legislation calling for a San Francisco boycott of Arizona in response to that state’s recently enacted, harsh immigration law. “I feel the city and county of San …

Facing reelection and desperate to appease teabaggers, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has just signed her state’s racist anti-immigrant bill. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the nation’s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure that supporters said would take handcuffs off police but which President Barack Obama said could violate people’s civil rights. The bill, sent to …

The extreme right anti-immigrant group Americans For Legal Immigration has issued a press release calling on Sen. Lindsey Graham to come out of the closet. This weekend the group’s leader mocked Graham’s sexuality during a speech at a teabagger rally in South Carolina. The group claims that Graham is being blackmailed into anti-American activities because of his sexuality. The national …

Bill O’Reilly correctly points out that Arizona’s new law, which permits police to interrogate anybody they suspect of being undocumented, will result in racial profiling. McCain says he’ll be “very sorry if some of that happens,” but “it’s the people whose homes and property are being violated. It’s the drive-by that — the drivers of cars with illegals in it …

The Arizona legislature has passed a bill authorizing the police to stop and interrogate anybody they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. Anti-immigrant activists are overjoyed. The bill’s author, State Sen. Russell Pearce, said it simply “takes the handcuffs off of law enforcement and lets them do their job.” But police were deeply divided on the matter, with police unions …

If you are a prospective citizen of Canada, you won’t learn about their expansive gay rights laws from a brand new guide for immigrants. Anti-gay Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has had all mention of that deleted. Internal documents show an early draft of the guide contained sections noting that homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969; that the Charter of Rights and …

Led by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), sixty members of the congressional LGBT Equality Caucus have co-signed a letter calling on the president and Congress to reform the immigration laws that block LGBT citizens from sponsoring their partners for residency in the United States. “No one,” the letter insists, “should be forced to choose between the person they love and the …

Here’s one of the best benefits of being a blogger I’ve had in a long time. In a post about the Super Bowl yesterday, I mentioned that my paternal grandfather had died in 1989. That prompted longtime JMG reader (and my real life pal) Homer, an avid genealogy hobbyist who lives in Tucson, to do some research on the Jervis …