News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Death threats have state leaders toning down rhetoric

By CLAUDINE LoMONACO

Published: 03.12.2007

In light of death threats against two Arizona politicians, Democratic state legislators will hold a special meeting Tuesday

to examine the impact of their rhetoric on the immigration debate and urge state leaders to tone it down.

House Democratic leader Phil Lopes of Tucson organized the forum with Phoenix Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. She and Safford Republican Bill Konopnicki received death threats earlier this year.

Sinema sponsored a bill to ban civilian patrols to help enforce immigration laws in Arizona.

Konopnicki voted against a bill that would have denied worker's compensation benefits to illegal immigrants because he believed it would have opened employers to lawsuits.

That prompted threats against the two lawmakers, and Lopes believes some politicians fueled the anger.

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