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Both proponents and opponents of the law are vociferous. "This criminalizes undocumented status and turns dishwashers, janitors, landscapers and our neighbors into criminals," says Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "The bill constitutes a complete disregard for the rights of nonwhites in Arizona. It effectively mandates racial profiling." But state senator Russell Pearce, a Republican, says his bill "will not change a thing for lawful citizens. It simply takes the handcuffs off law enforcement and allows them to do their job. Our legal citizens have a constitutional right to expect protection of federal law against...
...This is the most anti-immigrant legislation the U.S. has seen since the House bill of 2005 which set off huge demonstrations across the country," says Newman. "The sheer breadth of this bill is going to alter the national discussion." He says the bill does four things: criminalizes undocumented status, enlists local police in illegal-immigration enforcement, allows citizens to sue police departments if citizens think the police are not being sufficiently vigilant in enforcement and forbids any city from ignoring the state law and becoming a so-called sanctuary zone. "That's before you get to racial profiling," says...
...Crimson (15-7, 6-2 Ivy) visited Cornell (5-17, 1-8) Friday night in the second leg of their seasonal matchup. In Cambridge two weeks ago, the Big Red was only able to put up 53 points, and the outcome was no different at Newman Arena. The Crimson’s defense held Cornell to the same number of points, but this time around—led by freshman Victoria Lippert’s 20-point game—Harvard extended its winning margin by five for a final score...
Many of the give-aways—which led to 29 points for the opposition—resulted from a team-wide inability to hold onto the ball. Passes repeatedly went off of hands, dribbles went awry, and the raucous Newman Arena crowd...
Instead of a back-and-forth battle between two title contenders, the sold-out crowd at Cornell’s Newman Arena witnessed the most lopsided Ivy League game of the season...