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Immigration Initiatives Don't Make Ballot
Category: Immigration · State: Arizona · Source: Arizona Republic
Two voter initiatives designed to toughen Arizona illegal-immigration laws will not appear on the November ballot, the chairman of the campaigns told supporters late Tuesday night. Don Goldwater, a former GOP gubernatorial candidate, wrote in an e-mail that initiative campaigns working to strengthen the state's employer-sanctions law and require police officers to enforce immigration law each failed to collect the 153,365 petition signatures required to put the proposed measures before voters on Nov. 4.Both Goldwater and state Rep. Russell Peace, the Republican sponsor of last year's employer-sanctions legislation, launched the initiative drives in March 2007. But they lacked the financial support needed to hire paid signature gatherers. "In the end some would look at this as a defeat," Goldwater wrote. "I refuse to overlook our great victories and accomplishments and neither should anyone else."
Initiative Set for Ballot Would Curb Bilingual Ed
Category: Bill Sizemore · State: Oregon · Source: Oregon Statesman-Journal
An initiative to end bilingual education in Oregon has qualified for the November ballot, officials with the secretary of state's office said. If approved by voters, Initiative No. 19 — sponsored by Bill Sizemore — would ban bilingual education for all children in public schools learning English as a Second Language after two years of instruction. The proposed statutory amendment does allow for instruction of a foreign language to English-speaking students.
Canvassers Target Voters
Category: Petition Circulating · State: Arkansas · Source: The Morning News-Arkansas
They gather where voters gather, hungry for signatures, eager to push their cause through direct democracy. They will be out in force, likely bearing clipboards, for Tuesday's election. Poll site canvassers use myriad approaches, but their goal is the same: To fill their petition with as many voter signatures as they can get. "We will be out there," said Jeannie Burlsworth, the chairwoman of Secure Arkansas, a group working to get a ballot initiative in front of voters at the November general election. The ballot measure wants to prevent people illegally in the United States from receiving public benefits.
Arkansas AG Certifies Illegal Immigration Measure
Category: Immigration · State: Arkansas · Source: Pine Bluff Commercial
The Arkansas attorney general's office cleared the way on Wednesday for supporters of a ballot measure requiring government agencies to verify all those seeking public benefits in the state are legal U.S. residents to begin gathering signatures. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel approved the language of the proposed initiated act by Secure Arkansas, allowing the group to begin collecting the 61,974 signatures necessary to put it before voters in November. Jeannie Burlsworth, a chairwoman for Secure Arkansas, has said the group plans to collect many of the signatures at polling places during the state's May 20 primary. If approved by voters, the proposal would require those older than 13 seeking public benefits from a state agency to sign an oath saying they live legally in the country. The group says those who falsely fill out an affidavit could face perjury charges. Verification would not be required for emergency medical treatment, prenatal care or public school enrollment.
Group Organizes Recall Effort Against Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon
Category: Immigration · State: Arizona · Source: The Arizona Republic
Anti-illegal-immigration activists will attempt to recall Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for policies they say are too soft on those who enter the country illegally. A group calling itself American Citizens United, which includes members of organizations involved in recent anti-illegal-immigrant protests, filed paperwork Wednesday to create a political-action committee. "Phil Gordon has operated the Mayor's Office with malfeasance in refusing to execute his sworn oath of office," the group said in its filing. advertisement It accused Gordon of "disregarding the will of Phoenix citizens by refusing to allow the Phoenix Police Department to impartially enforce laws against violators of laws on illegal immigration and human smuggling."
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