by Robert Parham | Apr 28, 2011 | Opinion
Fabricate facts. Testify to threats. Take a stand against problems that don’t exist. That’s the three-step tango to introducing bills in state legislatures. Â Take Texas state Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler), who introduced a bill to ban Shariah law from use in...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 7, 2011 | News
The Arizona Senate’s rejection of five anti-immigration bills hasn’t slowed the pace of anti-immigration bills surging through statehouses in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee. In mid-March, the Arizona Senate voted...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 4, 2011 | News
State legislators are battling over immigration from Arizona to South Carolina. In some cases, business leaders are opposing anti-immigration bills. In Arizona, state Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa) introduced three new immigration bills last week. His bills seek to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 2, 2011 | News
Anti-Islam bills have now been introduced in a dozen state legislatures from Alaska to South Carolina. Some bills refer specifically to Sharia or Islamic law. Others refer only to “foreign laws,” a thinly veiled reference to Islamic law. Bill sponsors...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 5, 2011 | Opinion
Democrats’ spineless attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform when they controlled the Congress – coupled with the prevailing racist Latino-phobia demonstrated by incoming Republican House committee chairs – mean that Latinas and Latinos will be facing...
