| PROTECT ARIZONA NOW
A. Where is
home base (city/state/country)?
Arizona, U.S.A.
B. What is key
constituency or audience?
Legal Arizona citizens and taxpayers
C. What are
the agency’s main activities?
Verifying citizenship for voting purposes and verifying applicants for
non-federally funded public benefits.
D. Mission statement?
Key goals?
1. Require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
2. Requires proof of identity to vote.
3. Requires proof of eligibility for non-federally mandated public
benefits.
Slogan: “Illegal immigration – the Trojan horse that is treated like a
sacred cow”.
E. What are key
immigration issues of concern to this agency?
1. To set policies to protect citizens from paying welfare dollars to
illegal aliens.
2. To require proof of citizenship for voting purposes (“to secure the
purity of elections”).
F. What is the most
common basis for statements issued, agency’s research, press releases,
etc.?
1. Former governor Hull reported when she passed out voter registration
cards at a large citizenship swearing-in ceremony, half the people
turned their forms back in claiming they were already registered
voters. This act is unconstitutional; all voters must be legal citizens
to vote.
2. In 1998, there were 500,000 unverified names on the voter rolls. It
was discovered 65,000 were either deceased or felons, leaving 435,000
assumed to be illegally voting. However, the 435,000 names have not
been removed from the voter rolls.
G. Is the agency
noticeably pro or con immigration?
The organization does not make any blatant claims to be pro
or con immigration. However, Protect Arizona Now is clearly against
immigration. This is proven by the fact that the group is trying
to pass legislation for laws that already exist. For example,
they want citizens to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote;
this is already a law!
I. Names of key
spokespersons/officers
Senior Advisor is Russell Pearce, State Representative from District
18.
J. Give at least one
citation of this group in a news report. (use a citation index to
research this)
1. East Valley Tribune article, “07/08 – Initiative Targets Illegal
Immigrants”, by Le Templar (see reference #2).
2. The Sierra Times article, “AZ: Proposition 187-Type Initiative
Heading for State Wide Ballot” (see reference #3). 3. “I found it very
interesting watching a polling place in Mexico on television. A Mexican
citizen wanting to cast a ballot in the Mexican election had to present
photo identification, which was matched to a photo identification of
record. It is interesting that what is expected of Mexicans in Mexico
is intrusive and anti-Hispanic in this country.” Edmund I. Leff,
Paradise Valley (see reference #4).
K. Other issues of
interest?
A few interesting points made on the site: 1. A radio talk show host’s
children (all under the age of 10) were (somehow) registered to vote.
2. A caller of that same show admitted that he registered his dog to
vote via the internet. 3. They even claim that dead people vote even
years after their death!
L. Web site? Give URL
1. http://www.pan2004.com/
2.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=6838
3.
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/08/article_az.htm
4.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0714monlets148.html
To review a CRITICAL VIEWPOINT of the Protect Arizona Now issues, the
following website will access an article written by Elvia Diaz for the
Arizona Republic on July 12,2003. Elvia interviews the Democratic
senator from Connecticut, the article is titled "Joe Lieberman
Criticizes Arizona immigrant initiative"
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0712immigrant-lieberman12.html
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