On a press call today, local and national immigration and labor experts discussed the results of the recall effort and what they mean for immigration policy and politics in the 2012 elections and beyond.
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In November of 2010, Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce, who sponsored Arizona's highly controversial anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, won reelection with a convincing 56.5% of the vote. He easily defeated two challengers, Democrat Andrew Sherwood and Libertarian Andrea Garcia.
Last night, he was recalled.
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Move over, Mark Krikorian. Make way, Mo Brooks. Turns out we've got another Republican none too shy about getting out there and defending the Alabama immigration law, humanitarian crisis be damned.
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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) yesterday admitted that the state's worst-in-the-nation immigration law needs changes. Gov. Bentley's comments come after continued stories criticizing the economic catastrophe for Alabama agriculture, burdensome new requirements forced upon Alabama small businesses...
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A leading conservative religous voice spoke up this past week over the nativist rhetoric that runs unchecked through the GOP party. Richard Land, a.k.a. "Chief Red Bull" (according to his Wikipedia page), is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Since the implementation of the Alabama immigration law, our team here at America's Voice has been rotating through the Yellowhammer State, helping to organize a humanitarian response and collecting stories about how normal families have been affected by this monstrosity of a law.
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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We know Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) says one thing on immigration and does another, but this is especially rich. In an article in The Hill about how the GOP is split over the issue of E-Verify, Senator Rubio said he supports the legislation "in concept." But, he's an actual...
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A scathing editorial in today's Washington Post blasts Alabama's new anti-immigrant law - and the failure of Congress to find a path to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
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House Republican Jeff Duncan (SC) is just the latest in a long line of Republicans to say something horribly impolitic about immigrants, only to backtrack later. He readily joins the club as one of their most nonsensical members. Earlier this week, Duncan described the US border as “like having...
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