Every day the fear driving the conflict over immigration grows more and more
15-year state worker accused of compiling ‘list’ | The Salt Lake Tribune: "The Utah Attorney General’s Office has begun a criminal investigation into two women accused of cobbling together a list of 1,300 Utah residents purportedly in the country illegally." July 22, 2010
Fear-mongering off and running in surreal season: "In this election season, fear-mongering about the border and 'illegals' is surreal. The image of our state as a place where the roads are not safe for tourists is as false as the claim that most border crossers are drug mules. This kind of talk contributes to a festering perception of the border as the source of all bad things and of Mexicans as a threat to Arizona's security. There is no denying that those stereotypes can be used by extremists who have an agenda of racial division, not cooperation. July 20, 2010, Arizona Republic
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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