Morning NewsTaco
Monday July 9, 2012
Former Arizona governor detained at border checkpoint (Associated Press/Fox News Latino): Former Arizona Gov. Raul Castro, who in the 1970s served as the state’s first and only Hispanic governor, was detained at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after the vehicle he was traveling in triggered a radiation sensor.
Why Latinos are skeptical (The Arizona Republic): Legitimate public concerns about illegal immigration, terrorism and smuggling cannot become a cover for shoddy behavior by law enforcement. Respect for civil rights is essential in a free society.
Where Hispanics Live (Slate): A map of America’s Hispanic population, county by county.
‘Anti-Arizona’ Immigration Law Passes California Senate (Fox News Latino): The California State Senate passed a bill Thursday that raises the bar for when police can act on immigration status. The vote comes a little over a week after the U.S. Supreme Court left standing a provision of Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law that requires police to check the status of people they stop for another reason, if they suspect the person is undocumented.
Deadline today in Alabama immigration lawsuits on effect of recent Supreme Court decision (The Huntsville Times): Today marks the deadline for the parties suing over Alabama’s immigration law to file briefs with a federal appeals court as to how the Alabama law is affected by the recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s similar immigration law.
‘Illegal immigrant’ is the uncomfortable truth (CNN): What’s in a name? For my friends and simpaticos in the immigration reform community, enough to go ballistic at the mere mention of the phrase: “illegal immigrant.”
Immigration Knocks on the Newsroom Door (New American Media): In journalism, the injustice we report sometimes knocks on our door, or the tragedy we communicate stumbles into our home. Unfortunately, we are living a similar situation in MundoHispánico, Georgia’s largest and oldest Latino paper. Other media have exposed dysfunctional systems that impact their journalists. It is now our turn to do the same. And this time it is of one of our colleagues, Mario Guevara.
Fingerprint program ensnares U.S. citizen (Boston Herald): A computer specialist is suing the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security after a controversial fingerprint-sharing program incorrectly identified him as an illegal immigrant and authorities ordered him detained in a maximum-security prison.
Texas voter ID fight returning to federal court (Houston Chronicle): The decades-old legal battle between states’ rights and civil rights returns to a familiar venue – a federal courtroom – on Monday as lawyers for the state of Texas try to convince a panel of judges that the U.S. Justice Department has no legal authority to block the state from immediately implementing a voter ID law.
Dengue Cases Rising in Puerto Rico (Fox News Latino): The number of detected dengue cases is running at above-average levels as Puerto Rico enters the peak season for the painful disease.
