25 Years in 25 Days (2010): SB 1070 and Hispanics in the U.S.

Young people gather on the lawn of the State Capitol in Phoenix to protest passage of SB 1070 in April

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.

Also today: a look at the rise of the Tea Party from the town halls of Summer 2009 through the mid-term election of 2010.


In 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. The law required law enforcement agents to determine immigration status if there was a "reasonable suspicion" that the individual was not here legally. It sparked a conversation about racial profiling and immigration reform. Idelisse Malavé and Esti Giordani, a mother-daughter team and now co-authors of the upcoming book Latino Stats: American Hispanics by the Numbers (The New Press), talk about the rise of Latinos in the U.S.