Phoenix Business Journal: “A Hispanic group opposed to Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 immigration measure has launched a boycott of Budweiser beer and the Phoenix-based Anheuser-Busch distributorship headed by Cindy Hensley McCain.”
Fox News: “Under Obama, employer audits are up 50 percent . . . . But under President Obama, the numbers of arrests and deportations of illegals taken into custody at work sites plummeted by more than 80 percent from the last year of the Bush administration. In the current fiscal year 2010, which ends Sept. 30, ICE has arrested 900 workers. . . . That compares to immigration agents under Bush . . . deporting more than 6,000 illegal immigrants in raids in 2008.”
KPHO 5 TV: “Maricopa County Supervisor Andrew Kunasek claims he was the victim of an extortion attempt at the hands of former county attorney Andrew Thomas and his deputy prosecutor” See the letter from Andy Kunasek in which he alleges wrong-doing by the form Maricopa County Attorney and one of his deputy county attorneys.
1. Investors Business Daily: “Media Miss Cartels’ War In U.S.”
“Los Angeles and its suburbs are in grave danger of becoming outposts for Mexican drug- and immigrant-smuggling cartels, according to local law enforcement officials.”
This article says that the Los Angeles police department and the FBI say that they know of SEVEN Mexican drug cartels that operate in Los Angeles and its suburbs.
2. Houston Chronicle: “Slain girl’s family demands immigration crackdown”
“Family members of a teen gunned down last week railed against America’s immigration policy on Friday after learning one of the suspected gunmen was in the country illegally. . . . Immigration officials have said Alvarado [one of the alleged gunmen] was deported in April 2008 and again in May 2009.”
3. Investors Business Daily: “Don’t Tread On Florida”
“Like Arizona’s law, McCollum’s proposed statute announced last week, to be sponsored in the Florida legislature by state Rep. William Snyder, would require police officers to verify a suspect’s immigration status during all lawful stops, detentions and arrests when reasonable suspicion exists.”
4. Arizona Republic: “Arizona’s illegal immigrants can easily avoid E-verify system”
5. Arizona Republic: “Illegal immigrant worker audits, loopholes”
6. Arizona Republic: “Scottsdale council members wouldn’t take stand on SB 1070”
7. Michelle Malkin: “HSINO: The $600 million Homeland Security In Name Only bill”
8. The Volokh Conspiracy: “How much border security does $600 million buy?”
“Short answer: Not too much.“
Arizona Republic reviews the budget-busting feuding between former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio on one side and Maricopa County judges, supervisors and other officials on the other side. To date, notices of claims for damages exceeding $56 million have been filed with Maricopa County by people who claim that action taken by county officials has caused them to be harmed. As of June 15, 2010, Maricopa County has wasted over $3.2 million for legal feed, audits and searching county offices for bugs (listening devices).