Xenophobes and Christian fundamentalists are behind the anti-sharia measures now passed or pending in more than a dozen states—but secular progressives resist efforts to impose sharia on the unwilling in the Muslim world. Can we avoid confusion?
California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released a status report concluding that California is unlikely to meet the US Supreme Court’s two-year deadline to reduce the state’s prison population by 34,000 inmates.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is under fire for recent brutal raids against immigrant families from California to Virginia. Obama has called off the ICE workplace raids, but continued so-called “anti-gang” sweeps.
The California Department of Corrections reports that at least 6,600 prisoners in at least 11 of the state’s 33 prisons have joined the hunger strike initiated by some 400 inmates at the Pelican Bay facility on July 1.
Georgia’s Attorney General Sam Olens pledged to appeal the recent federal injunction of the state’s new immigration bill, modeled on the controversial legislation in Arizona, which is also currently enjoined.
The US Border Patrol shot dead a Mexican national who was among three men allegedly attempting to cross the frontier at San Ysidro—almost exactly a year after a similar incident at El Paso.
The governments of Mexico and several other countries filed amicus briefs in support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) class action lawsuit against Georgia’s harsh new immigration law.
We noted last year the FBI raids on activists in the midwest over their alleged ties to the PFLP and the FARC. We’ve also noted the hardline proclivities of federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, whose harsh “anti-terrorist” measures have bottlenecked free… Read moreActivists protest FBI raids in FARC-PFLP case
Calls for expunging references to “Operation Geronimo” from the historical record fail to acknowledge the profound roots of the problem—and are, in their own way, a part of exactly what they seek to oppose: a betrayal of memory.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law an “Arizona style” anti-“illegal” immigration bill that allows law enforcement officers to ask about immigration status when questioning suspects in criminal investigations
Disgraced NPR exec Ron Schiller merely stated the obvious by calling the Tea Party movement racist—but then went on to engage in a racist trope himself with his canard that the media is “owned” by the Jews.
Muslim student Yasir Afifi and the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit against the FBI after Afifi discovered a global positioning system device on his car’s undercarriage.
