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Arizona, the Anti-Immigrant Laboratory
by Todd Miller
Even though a federal judge blocked key controversial provisions of Arizona's new immigration legislation, one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws ever passed in the United States still went into effect on July 29 in that state. This law, however, didn't come out of thin air. The "zero tolerance" logic behind the law mimics what has already been established by the federal government. Indeed, the confluence of these immigration, military, border, and economic policies in Arizona has not only made it the country's primary laboratory for draconian immigration policies, but also connects the U.S. border zone to a broader international context of "global apartheid."
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of NACLA Report on the Americas.
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Mexico's Economic Collapse
by James Martín Cypher
The year 2009 was arguably the worst year of economic downturn in Mexico since the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mexico's GDP fell by an estimated 6.5% last year, an economic collapse that was consistently downplayed by the country's political and economic elite. When Mexican President Felipe Calderón asserts, as he often does, that this crisis was caused by "external" forces and factors, he is dead wrong: As the great recession of 2009 showed so clearly, Mexico has become an appendage of the U.S. economy.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2010 edition of NACLA Report on the Americas.
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