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Topic: Protect Arizona Now

	PAN-200 Press Release: The Facts
		Since the petitions were turned into the Arizona Secretary of State on July 1, opponents of the ballot measure have launched a campaign of disinformation, aimed at distorting the language and objectives of Proposition 200, and impugning the motives of the people behind the initiative.
		Large-scale illegal immigration is an important issue in Arizona and much of the rest of the nation, and it is crucial that the facts about Proposition 200 be reported accurately to the voters.
		To protect the public against fraud and corruption in public services, the issuing agency must have verified the immigration status of the cardholder.
	www.mnforsustain.org /Iniative_pan200_press_release_the_facts.htm (1665 words)

	Arizona Proposition 200 (2004) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Authors of the ballot measure, the Protect Arizona Now committee, wrote it because of a serious concern for lax voter registration and voting procedures and concerns that public services to immigrants from neighboring Mexico, many of whom are illegal immigrants, were too costly.
		On July 5, 2004, Protect Arizona NOW's Chairman, Kathy McKee, pursuant to Arizona law, submitted 190,887 signatures to the Arizona Secretary of State's office, surprising critics who had believed organizers would not be able to garner enough signatures before the deadline.
		For now, it seems safe as it was just upheld by U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver who wrote that the challengers "have not shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits, the balance of hardships favor the defendants and the public interest would not be advanced by granting the injunction."[4]
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arizona_Proposition_200_(2004) (1327 words)

	Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Protect Arizona Now
		Protect Arizona Now (PAN), the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act that supporters are trying to get on the ballot, would require applicants for Arizona's welfare, AHCCCS, to show identification demonstrating proof of citizenship before receiving welfare.
		PAN has been carefully drafted to avoid that pitfall, and does not prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving federally mandated services such as emergency medical care and K-12 education.
		PAN is a step in the right direction to ending the dependency upon welfare, although it does not go far enough; we should work on taking all Americans off of welfare, not just illegal immigrants.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /2004/03/10/protect-arizona-now (818 words)

	KAET: HORIZONTE transcripts
		Arizona attorney general Terry Goddard ruled that state schools chief Tom Horne is within his power to make it more difficult for students to opt out of English immersion.
		A citizens initiative called "protect Arizona now" seeks to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, require ID when voting, and require proof of citizenship when requesting nonfederally mandated services.
		Now we've got enforcement and service separated out and each is going to have its own dedicated budget to address its own needs, and there won't be this competition among two sides of the house or between two sides of the house for a budget anymore.
	www.kaet.asu.edu /horizonte/transcripts/2003/july/july27_2003.html (3845 words)

	Background-Protect Arizona Now with I-03-2004 -
		This is a critical initiative, and if we don't put in place some safeguards now (simply requiring the enforcement of existing laws), we may not be able to in the future - and if we even can, it will be much harder in the future.
		While the overall policy on immigration belongs to the federal government, the impact of malfeasance by the federal government is born by legal Arizona residents and taxpayers.
		Arizona has a $1 BILLION deficit, and many legislators believe that's about the amount this state spends on illegal aliens.
	www.pan2004.com /background.htm (1741 words)

	PAN Supporters
		PAN Treasurer Rusty Childress, owner of Childress Auto Mall in Phoenix, agrees that we need to protect the United States from immigrants because "we need to be careful that we don't become the third world country that a lot of these illegal aliens are running from." Mr.
		Protect Arizona Now is an extreme, detrimental move, and not moderate, as has been suggested.
		Protect Arizona Now is also supported by a number of anti-immgration organizations with ties to racist "white nationalist" organizations.
	www.geocities.com /nopan_2004/supporters.htm (841 words)

	Article \| Anti-Immigrant Fever in Arizona
		Last week, backers of a ballot measure dubbed "Protect Arizona Now" turned in petitions signed by 190,887 residents of that state calling for the initiative to be put to voters in November.
		The main article of the PAN initiative is so broadly worded that it is hard to tell exactly what it would accomplish.
		Arizona voters seem to understand that what is occurring in their communities is not something the state can cure by withholding basic services from transients.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/_latimes-anti_immigration.htm (862 words)

	International Relations Center \| Analysis \| Restrictionism Resurgent in Post-9/11 Politics: Protect America Now
		Protect Arizona Now (PAN), which has a national advisory board that includes prominent white supremacists and cultural nationalists, is part of a country-wide network of groups committed to severely restricting legal immigration and stopping illegal immigration by all necessary means.
		Whether promoted by local groups like Protect Arizona Now, national think tanks like Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), or congressional anti-immigrant forces like the House Immigration Reform Caucus, restrictionist proposals to halt immigration, deport undocumented residents, and deny basic services to noncitizens are routinely framed in the language of fear, patriotism, and national security.
		PAN’s logo has a mounted figure galloping across the state map brandishing the U.S. flag, and Center for Immigration Studies recently testified in Congress about how loose border security facilitates the entry of terrorists into the country.
	www.irc-online.org /content/710 (2537 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: When Illegals Cost a Billion by Elvia Diaz and Sergio Bustos
		Arizona taxpayers pay an estimated $1.3 billion a year for health care, education and prison costs of undocumented immigrants, according to a report released Thursday by a national group backing Protect Arizona Now.
		Backers of Protect Arizona Now hope the report will fuel the immigration debate in Arizona and help them collect 122,600 signatures by July 1 to put the measure on the November ballot.
		The Arizona Republicans championing the federal measure are Sen. John McCain, Rep. Jim Kolbe of Tucson and Rep. Jeff Flake of Mesa.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13694 (557 words)

	Group gets signatures for Arizona immigration ballot measure \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		PHOENIX - An Arizona group trying to put an initiative on the state's November ballot to deny government services to illegal immigrants got a boost Tuesday when it was presented with approximately 100,000 petition signatures.
		The Washington-based Federation for American Immigration Reform presented the Protect Arizona Now campaign with 12 boxes of petitions during a news conference at the Capitol.
		Protect Arizona Now needs to submit 122,612 voter signatures by Thursday to qualify its initiative for the ballot.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/27986 (490 words)

	Protect Arizona Now: A Moderate Solution That Fixes Immigration Instead Of Preventing It - Rachel Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Protect Arizona Now (PAN), the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act that supporters are trying to get on the ballot, would require applicants for Arizona’s welfare, AHCCCS, to show identification demonstrating proof of citizenship before receiving welfare.
		PAN has been carefully drafted to avoid that pitfall, and does not prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving federally mandated services such as emergency medical care and K-12 education.
		PAN is a step in the right direction to ending the dependency upon welfare, although it does not go far enough; we should work on taking all Americans off of welfare, not just illegal immigrants.
	www.americandaily.com /article/1005 (1116 words)

	Protect Arizona Now - Proposition 200 is the Anti-Migrant Initiative 2004
		Among the acceptable IDs are Arizona driver's licenses issued after 1996, copy of birth certificate, United States passport, Bureau of Indian Affairs card or tribal treaty card number.
		The question indicated, in part, that Protect Arizona Now would deny state and local social and welfare services to illegal immigrants, but the term "illegal immigrants" is not specifically contained in the ballot language.
		Organizers have filed 190,887 signatures with the Secretary of State on behalf of Protect Arizona Now and they are confident they have the needed 122,612 valid signatures.
	www.raybarnesreelectdistrict7.com /protectarizonanow.html (400 words)

	White Nationalism and Protect Arizona Now : AZ IMC
		The Protect Arizona Now initiative is supported by several anti-immigration groups with ties to white nationalist organizations.
		The Director of Protect Arizona Now is Kathy McKee of Glendale, a former PeTA activist.
		PAN Treasurer Rusty Childress, owner of Childress Auto Mall in Phoenix, agrees that we need to protect the United States from immigrants because "we need to be careful that we don't become the third world country that a lot of these illegal aliens are running from."
	arizona.indymedia.org /news/2004/05/18588.php (888 words)

	"Props" to Prop. 200 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the shadow of this unprecedented display of partisan venom, however, Arizona is faced with an equally important decision regarding the immediate security of our rights as citizens to benefit from programs we have contributed to for years.
		Proposition 200 was enacted by a majority of the people because they see the clear and present danger inherent in continued complacency on the part of the federal government, who time and again fails to prevent or even decrease the overwhelming influx of illegal aliens into this state.
		Also known as the Protect Arizona Now (PAN 2004) initiative, it would essentially require people who vote or attempt to claim welfare to provide proof of citizenship in order to do so.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~pddavis/vrwcmember/archive/prop200.html (719 words)

	PAN Article
		Southern and Southwestern states such as California and Arizona have begun complaining, as of late, that the flood of illegal immigrants pouring daily through the sieve that is the U.S./Mexican border, are taking advantage of state social programs and social services by the thousands and are running the states' coffers dry.
		In Arizona the application process to apply for social services and financial assistance doesn’t require any proof of citizenship to qualify, granting illegal immigrants governmental handouts while they pay no income tax to support the system they are taking full advantage of while living here illegally.
		I believe the ratification of the Protect Arizona Now initiative would prove a win-win situation for Arizona citizens and is possibly something to consider implementing nationwide.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article3248.html (1125 words)

	Immigration polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Despite loud denunciation by the majority of the state's political power brokers, voters are supporting a proposed initiative that would prevent undocumented immigrants from receiving public assistance and would require Arizonans to prove their citizenship before they could register to vote.
		Seven of 10 voters support the Protect Arizona Now initiative, according to a poll released Tuesday by Arizona State University.
		Protect Arizona Now backers say that undocumented immigrants are draining state and local governments and that officials turn a blind eye to the problem of illegal immigration.
	www.usbc.org /surveys/0903azpoll.htm (467 words)

	Protect Arizona Now adviser denies racism charge
		In naming Virginia Abernethy a national adviser of PAN, the group has handed her a "megaphone to promote racist views," charged the Center for New Community in a nine-page report and in interviews with The Arizona Republic.
		PAN, also known as Proposition 200, would force Arizonans to prove their citizenship when registering to vote and to show identification when casting a ballot at the polls.
		Organizers have filed 190,887 signatures with the Arizona Secretary of State on behalf of PAN; state elections officials are verifying if the group has the needed 122,612 valid signatures.
	www.azcentral.com /news/election/ballot/articles/0807protect-arizona07.html (454 words)

	South East Arizona Republican Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Protect Arizona Now, appears to have met the appropriate legal requirements and in all likelihood will be on the ballot come November.
		Our health care system in Arizona is under tremendous stress due to the high volume of illegal aliens enjoying services and then skipping out on the bill.
		Article 7, Section 12 of the Arizona Constitution states, “There shall be enacted registration and other laws to secure the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elected franchise." Currently, state law allows voters to register by mail or internet without proving one’s citizenship.
	www.searclub.com /?page=news-article&id=709 (1298 words)

	Protect Arizona Now will be on ballot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Arizona Republic Proposition 200, known as Protect Arizona Now, will likely be on the Nov. 2 ballot, officials said.
		The campaign that it will trigger is expected to make Arizona a national battleground in the fight over illegal immigration.
		Arizona county officials checked the validity of 9,237 signatures, or 5 percent of the 184,737 signatures.
	www.tianews.com /tianews/SFTHBR/08-14-04/Outrage000.htm (411 words)

	Phoenix Anarchist Coalition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Groups that are opposed to the PAN initiative have already been working to educate the public about the racist connections and motivations of PAN.
		Financial connections between PAN and white nationalist groups and militias is discussed on the No PAN 2004 website.
		More information on the white supremacist PAN advisory member can be read in the press release here or at the Center for New Community report.
	www.phoenixanarchist.org /print.php?sid=270 (499 words)

	Protect Arizona Now letters \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		I realize the Arizona Daily Star is pro-illegal entrants, but to continue the assertion that Proposition 200 is racially driven is absurd (Aug. 16 editorial "Roots in race").
		The fact is that most of the illegal entrants are from Mexico; however, it is not the color of their skin that is important.
		All content copyright © 1999-2006 AzStarNet, Arizona Daily Star and its wire services and suppliers and may not be republished without permission.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/34500 (516 words)

	PANendorsed
		A citizen’s grassroots effort, PAN is an attempt to ensure integrity at the voting booths of Arizona while protecting taxpayers from the burdensome social costs associated with illegal aliens.
		Among those speaking in favor of the resolution were PAN senior advisers Randy Graf and Russell Pearce, both conservative members of the Arizona House of Representatives, District 18 House candidate J.T. Ready, Joseph Sweeny of Eloy and State Rep. Karen Johnson.
		The overwhelming support of PAN in Kolbe's District 8 is a direct rebuke of the congressman.
	www.azconservative.org /PANendorsed.htm (732 words)

	GOPUSA - Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Now let's transport ourselves to the land of make believe in downtown Phoenix, the office of the Arizona Republic.
		Diaz wrote in her lead paragraph that PAN is anti-immigration: "Twenty-three state lawmakers on Thursday lined up behind a ballot measure that would cut social assistance to undocumented immigrants and set stricter rules to prevent voter fraud."
		Diaz also writes that PAN "has sparked strong reaction." Begrudgingly, she reveals near the end of her short story that the strong reaction is against the pandemic breaking of the border laws.
	www.gopusa.com /arizona/commentary/PANRepublicp.shtml (679 words)

	PROPOSITION 200
		Article 7, Section 12 of the Arizona Constitution states: "There shall be enacted registration and other laws to secure the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise." To meet this constitutional requirement, Arizona law requires that to vote in Arizona you must be a U.S. Citizen.
		Arizona voters should vote yes on Proposition 200 because it is a common sense, moderate measure that merely enforces the law, ensuring that illegal aliens who are not entitled to vote or obtain certain benefits cannot subvert the law to access them.
		PAN is unnecessary for two reasons: laws already exist that deny almost all state government services to the undocumented, which they normally do not to use anyway.
	www.azsos.gov /election/2004/info/PubPamphlet/english/prop200.htm (10618 words)

	Americas Program \| Column \| Restrictionism Resurgent in Post-9/11 Politics: Protect America Now
		Protect Arizona Now (PAN), which has a national advisory board that includes prominent white supremacists and cultural nationalists, is part of a country-wide network of groups committed to severely restricting legal immigration and stopping illegal immigration by all necessary means.
		Whether promoted by local groups like Protect Arizona Now, national think tanks like Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), or congressional anti-immigrant forces like the House Immigration Reform Caucus, restrictionist proposals to halt immigration, deport undocumented residents, and deny basic services to noncitizens are routinely framed in the language of fear, patriotism, and national security.
		PAN’s logo has a mounted figure galloping across the state map brandishing the U.S. flag, and Center for Immigration Studies recently testified in Congress about how loose border security facilitates the entry of terrorists into the country.
	americas.irc-online.org /columns/amprog/2004/0412pan_body.html (2475 words)

	071104pcommentary
		But the battle over the fate of Arizona's Clean Elections law is headed to court before it can go to voters in the form of an initiative.
		Protect Arizona Now, aimed at preventing voter fraud and denying public benefits to undocumented immigrants, will likely thrust Arizona into the center of the nation's debate over illegal immigration.
		Alfredo Gutierrez, a former state legislator and co-chairman of the Statue of Liberty Coalition formed to defeat the measure, said the group is ready to raise roughly $2 million to fight the measure.
	www.hispanicvista.com /html4/071104pc.htm (1041 words)

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