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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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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Nov 3, 2011
Over a month after the nation's toughest immigration law took effect in Alabama, hundreds of Hispanic students are still missing from the state's public school system – and they are likely gone for good.
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On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against South Carolina to block the implementation of SB 20, a divisive and dangerous anti-immigrant law signed by Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) earlier this year.
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Yesterday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez wrote to Alabama school districts reminding them, "that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional."
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How many undocumented immigrants in Alabama would meet the criteria set by new federal regulations to be "low priorities" for deportation if they were to be detained?
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The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter late Monday to school superintendents in Alabama requesting information on enrollment practices, saying the state's new immigration law "may chill or discourage" participation in public education.
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Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Tuesday that he expected the legal battle over Alabama's new immigration law to end up in the nation's highest court.
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U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, a Laurens Republican, is raising some eyebrows after likening illegal immigrants to animals and vagrants during a talk Monday to Furman University students. During a student event at the Greenville university, Duncan was answering a question about the complexity of political issues and used illegal...
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Some posters wonder why we keep writing about the state's malicious immigration law. They want to know why I believe it targets a certain group of people (brown), when the law itself claims it doesn't.
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