Economic Refugee News: Weekly Roundup 06/06/10

  • AFL-CIO’s blog: most economists and those who have researched the issue, say undocumented workers are not taking away jobs from U.S. citizens, a major claim of those who oppose immigration.
  • In light of President Obama’s recent of order of 1,200 National Guard troops to the border, watch Gabriela Flora from the American Friends Service Committee (video on the right of this article) argue on Colorado’s Channel 9 how the militarizing of the border has actually resulted in increased deaths along the border.
  • Phoenix New Times: Jan Brewer’s CCA Money and Her Possible Conflict of Interest Over SB 1070. Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law. Read the story here.
  • Zack de la Rocha, Kanye West, Juanes, others launch AZ boycott‏. The campaign, called the Sound Strike, has been organized by Zack de la Rocha, the lead singer of the rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, and is endorsed by English-language rock and rap performers like Massive Attack, Kanye West, Conor Oberst, Sonic Youth and Joe Satriani.
  • Drop a comment of support on the Tennessean.com’s note on Lipscomb University’s policy of admitting and providing private financial aid to students without regard to their immigration status.
  • Please comment and vote no on this poll. You can find it on the bottom right corner. They are asking if Florida should have a law like Arizona’s.
  • BostonHerald.com: Immigration activists urge Sen. Scott Brown to back  the Dream Act.
  • Check out this new project: Immigrant Stories from the 5%.  The project is currently run as a Facebook Page with the idea to collect immigrant stories from Asian Americans.
  • Interesting: Steve Poizner Receives Political Kiss of Death in the Latino Community: A Joe Arpaio Endorsement.
  • Rep. Linda Sanchez Tells The Truth About Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070.