from SLATE: > Thousands of Undocumented Workers Flee Arizona > If anecdotal evidence compiled by Reuters is to be believed, Arizona > lawmakers who approved a new immigration law set to go into effect later this > week are getting their wish. Thousands of immigrant families across the state > are packing their belongings and leaving. The law, which requires police > officers to investigate the status of anyone suspected of being in the > country illegally, is intended to drive out more than 400,000 undocumented > landscapers, chambermaids, house cleaners, and other workers. "Everyone is > selling up the little they have and leaving," said Wendi Villasenor, 31, who > plans to leave for Pennsylvania. "We have no alternative. They have us > cornered," said told Reuters as she tried to sell a kitchen table, chairs and > some dishes outside of her home in Phoenix to finance the move. "In a sign of > a gathering exodus, Mexican businesses from grocers and butcher shops to > diners and beauty salons have shut their doors in recent weeks as their > owners and clients ! leave," Reuters reported. (An article published in the Los Angeles Times provides further reporting on the damage the new law is doing to shopkeepers and other small business owners.) "They wanted to drive Hispanics out of Arizona and they have succeeded even before the law even comes into effect," another woman told Reuters. One of her neighbors, Gabriela Jaquez, plans to leave for New Mexico with her husband, who is a legal resident, and their two Phoenix-born children. "Under the law, if you transport an illegal immigrant, you are committing a crime," Jaquez said. "They could arrest him for driving me to the shops."
>Read original story in Reuters >[http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE66O1JY20100725] | Monday, >July 26, 2010 < Also from SLATE: > Florida Church Plans To Burn Qurans on Sept. 11 Anniversary > Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center, a church in Florida > that pledges to "stand up for righteousness," is organizing an "International > Burn a Koran Day" for the upcoming anniversary of Sept. 11. In the past, the > nondenominational church, which has "Islam is of the devil" signs displayed > in its front lawn, has organized protests against Islam. "We feel, as > Christians, one of our jobs is to warn," said Jones, author of Islam Is of > the Devil. He hopes that the protests he organizes will offer Muslims a > reason to convert. "In response to the posting of the event on Facebook a > little more than a week ago, Jones said that people have been mailing Qurans > to the church to burn," Religion News Service reported. "He said organizers > got the idea, in part, from another Facebook page, called 'Everybody Draw > Muhammad Day.'" The church is also taking heat for planning an upcoming > protest against homosexuality in Gainsville, Fla. ("Free speech is hated by > homosexuals and ! they do not like to hear the truth about their perverted lifestyle," the church's website declares. "We are protesting our openly homosexual Mayor Aug. 2.") > Read original story in Religion News Service > [http://pewforum.org/Religion-News/Fla-church-plans-to-burn-Qurans-on-9-11-anniversary.aspx] > | Monday, July 26, 2010 < -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
