Word on the street is that the proposed revision for Alabama’s anti-immigrant law HB 56 is still a load of Juan Crow. Faith, legal, and advocacy leaders said as much on a press call today, offering up a scathing critique of the new HB 658 and saying that it...
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Breaking news from Phoenix: Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his onetime deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, were stripped of their law licenses today as a disciplinary panel handed down the toughest sanctions possible for ethical violations in a case that attracted national interest. The panel also suspended Rachel Alexander,...
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As the recent FOX News Latino poll showed, Republicans are in serious trouble with Latinos. Serious trouble — as in losing to Obama by a six-to-one-margin trouble. And they’re looking for ways to dig themselves out of that ditch. So, it caught our attention when we learned that a...
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The Kansas City Star today has an in-depth article on Kris Kobach, the sometimes-Kansas Secretary of State who is so passionately anti-immigrant that he works overtime in service of it. Kobach is Kansas Secretary of the State by day, a job which the Star notes “should be one of the...
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Tomorrow, leaders from the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) are holding a press conference at 10 AM CT to speak about Alabama’s anti-immigrant law and to outline their plan of action to deal with proposed changes to HB 56. Check back in tomorrow for our report on the ACIJ...
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Today, we’re launching the first in what will be a regular series of posts from the DREAMers of the Campaign for an American DREAM. Last month, they set off from San Francisco to begin a 3,000-mile, 8-month+ walk to Washington, DC to call attention to the DREAM Act and...
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Yesterday, the backers of Alabama's "show me your papers" anti-immigrant law introduced new legislation to tweak, but not repeal HB56. The following is a reaction to the new bill from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice.
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A "Colbert Report" segment this week wonders how Republicans are going to capture the Latino vote "instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos." Colbert cites the recent Fox News Latino poll which found that no more than 14% of Latino voters would swing for the Republican Party...
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A bill proposing changes to Alabama's illegal immigration law has been introduced in the House. HB 658 by Rep Micky Hammon.
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of representing America's Voice Education Fund, alongside Renata Soto of National Council of La Raza and Fred Redmond of the United Steel Workers and the AFL-CIO, at the Daimler AG shareholder meeting with more than 6,000 attendees in Berlin, Germany.
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