Nov 7, 2011
ON TUESDAY Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil-rights division, sent a letter to the superintendents of Alabama's school districts. HB56, Alabama's harsh immigration law, requires "public schools to determine the citizenship and immigration status of students enrolling."
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Latino liberals are preparing to betray their pro-immigrant rhetoric by helping to re-elect the most anti-immigrant president in six decades. Three reasons: They're loyal to the brand of the Democratic Party; they put their party before their people; and they claim that things will be worse for Latino immigrants...
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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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A group of Democratic members of Congress opposed to Alabama's immigration law will be in Birmingham later this month to draw attention to what they say is a civil rights emergency.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta has scheduled oral arguments involving Georgia and Alabama's stringent new immigration laws for next year, likely leaving key parts of those measures on hold for several more months.
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House Republicans are split over an immigration bill that is backed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney as the measure is attracting escalating criticism from industry groups and rank-and-file members.
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Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has...
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Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has...
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Farmers in Alabama are in revolt against the state's over-the-top immigration law, which is designed to hound illegal immigrants so that they move elsewhere. As it happens, a substantial portion of farm workers there, as in other states, are undocumented. In the farmers' view, the law is depriving them...
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