Very powerful post from Nick Valencia, a producer at CNN about his first-hand experience with anti-Latino racism recently in Atlanta. Nick is a third generation Mexican-American, who was recently told to "Go home" by a woman in Atlanta.
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One of the most egregious sections of the Alabama's horrific immigration law turns schools into immigration enforcement authorities. That's already having an impact on school kids.
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Yesterday, a Federal District Court Judge in Alabama delivered a decision that will have an immediate negative impact on immigrants and Latinos in that state. Judge Blackburn upheld some of the most egregious sections of Alabama's punitive and discriminatory.
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Major news from Alabama today. Federal District Court Judge Sharon Blackburn upheld several sections of Alabama's worst-in-the-nation immigration law today
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Today, Rhode Island's Board of Governors for Higher Education unanimously approved a new policy granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.
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It's an issue that has farmers fired up, and many wondering what will happen to Alabama's produce industry. "If we can't get the food out of the ground and to the store then it goes to waste," says one farmer. "I guess they'll have to arrest me here in...
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Sep 23, 2011
On Wednesday, September 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send Rep. Lamar Smith's (R-TX) Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) to the House Floor. Now the rest of the House of Representatives will get a chance to debate this monstrosity.
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The House Judiciary Committee this week passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would require private businesses to use a federal program that checks the immigration status of all job applicants. The bill, the most sweeping piece of immigration legislation moving through Congress, will have a hard time getting through the...
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The number of immigration bills introduced in state capitals reached a record 1,592 this year, but the number actually signed into law fell by one-fourth, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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In a move likely to be roundly ignored by Florida's legislative leadership, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the Florida legislature to reject any immigration related legislation next session.
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