Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer and Contributing Editor for Islamica magazine; an international contemporary affairs magazine headquartered in Los Angeles and with editorial offices in London, Amman and Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Read more...
 
'Shop Talk': Debating The Immigration Law In Arizona

Date Posted: April 30, 2010

In this installment of our weekly Barbershop segment, host Michel Martin talks with freelance writer and author Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, columnist Gustavo Arellano who writes the column "Ask A Mexican" for the OC Weekly and NPR's Political Editor Ken Rudin. They discuss the mounting tensions in Arizona surrounding the newly signed immigration law there, the showdown between lawmakers and investment firm Goldman Sachs during more than 11 hours of hearings on Capitol Hill, and the release of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X’ assassin after 45 years in prison.

Listen to audio at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126416931

 
 
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