BARRIOZONA
Bilingual Community Expression
Published by the Hispanic Institute of Social Issues
America's Demand for Cheap Labor and Consumerism Created Stalemate
Both as customers and clandestine workers, people in this country without legal status have been used and abused for too
long by businesses who benefit from them.   
December 10, 2007  

Pruitt's Owner Tactic Fails to Thwart Fourth Consecutive Demonstration
'Landscaping work' by store's staff attempts to seize control of the sidewalk to prevent protesters from holding rally, but the
gimmick ends up turning rally into a march on both sides of Thomas Road.  
November 17, 2007

Joe Arpaio and Demonstrators Stir Up Immigration Debate at a Rally in East Phoenix
United Nations observers witness the Sheriff's impressive deployment of force to monitor a small protest.
October 27, 2007
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The Complex Tapestry of the Undocumented
Day laborers are just one strand
by Gabriel Escobar
Photo: Eduardo Barraza/BARRIOZONA
Tensions Deepen at Pruitt's
November 23, 2007
msco maricopa sheriff county. Tonya Gonnella Frichner united nations forum permanent indigenous issues Wilton Littlechild paul chagoya captain salvador reza roger sensing pruitt's furniture store M.D. Pruitt's day laborer labor joe arpaio phoenix undocumented workers barriozona arizona illegal immigration immigrants protest demonstrations 2007 october november debate sherrif's posse tupac enrique acosta migrant thomas road standing corners trespassing police neighborhood issues social www.barriozona.com eduardo barraza editor tonatierra macehualli day labor center francisca montoya cesar chavez alfredo gutierrez si se puede off-duty sheriff deputies arresting arrests
Editorial Observer:  Showdown in Arizona, Where Mariachis
and Minutemen Collide
By Lawrence Downes
A weekly confrontation at a parking lot in Phoenix perfectly mimics the
national debate over immigration.
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Auto slide show: Immigration Standoff in Phoenix
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U.S. immigration debate rages outside Arizona store
By Tim Gaynor
PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - In recent weeks the battle lines in a
heated debate in the United States over illegal immigration have been
drawn across the sidewalk outside an Arizona furniture store.
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Walk to Phoenix City Hall
December 19, 2007
Out in the Open: Illegal mmigration crackdown
CNN's Rick Sanchez talks to Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe
Arpaio on illegal immigration.  
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Editorial Observer: An Immigration Boiling Point Cools Down
By Lawrence Downes
The standoff in Phoenix between Latino protesters and immigration
hard-liners has been taken off the boil.
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