Oct 12, 2011
Here we go again. Every year for the last five, immigration hawks in Congress have sought to require all businesses to use an error-plagued federal system known as E-Verify to ensure that all new hires are U.S. citizens or legal immigrants.
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Oct 11, 2011
Whatever you think about the immigration policy in the United States, there is clearly the law and then there is reality. The immigration issue is often debated in terms of justice, rights and the protection of our borders, but there's a business story to be told as well.
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September 30th was an anniversary that went virtually unnoticed. It marked 15 years since the Congress enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA). For many practicing young lawyers who came into the field wanting to keep families united, this law suddenly changed the playing...
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The nation's harshest immigration law, upheld by a federal judge last week, is creating nothing short of a "humanitarian crisis," opponents of the law said in a news conference this afternoon. Attorneys, educators and children's advocates said the effects of the law mirror the fear and racism felt...
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Oct 4, 2011
The vanishing began Wednesday night, the most frightened families packing up their cars as soon as they heard the news. They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less.
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After a disappointing verdict that left some of the worst provisions of Alabama's immigration law HB 56 in effect, the federal government is finding itself ever more deeply entangled in a complicated legal thicket as it tries to figure out how to keep the list of states with their...
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An incident at a Montgomery public school was cited Monday in a U.S. District Court case as a reason Alabama's new immigration law will have a chilling effect on whether children of illegal aliens attend school.
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Only about 3.5 percent of Alabama's population is foreign-born, according to the Census Bureau. Undocumented immigrants made up roughly 4.2 percent of its work force in 2010, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
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Hispanic students have started pulling out of Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Education officials say scores of immigrant families withdrew their children from classes or kept them home last week, afraid...
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Alabama lawmakers are facing pressure from agriculture and business groups to change the state's tough new immigration law that a judge allowed to take effect last week. Crops are rotting in the fields because farmers can't find enough workers to harvest them.
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