Oct 17, 2011
Alabama has recently begun implementing a law designed to kick Latinos and immigrants out of the state. If you thought Arizona was bad, Alabama is worse. This is Arizona on steroids.
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Latino and civil rights groups stepped up their protest of KFI radio's the "John and Ken Show" last week, bringing several dozen picketers to march outside KFI studios in Burbank, California.
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Derrick Cotterel, an undocumented immigrant from Jamaica, is seeking political asylum. His story is wrenching -- and says so much about the failings of the immigration detention system in the U.S.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state and the United States Justice Department continued to fight over the law in the courts.
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Latino and other civil rights groups stepped up their efforts this week to knock the "John and Ken Show" off the air at KFI radio. Along with a public picket line outside KFI studios in Burbank, the groups have been pressuring advertisers to withdraw from the controversial radio talk...
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Alabama has what many consider to be the strictest anti-immigration law in the country. Now that the law has been in effect for a few weeks, the state's residents are starting to see what some of the unintended consequences are. Andrew Yeager of member station WBHM reports from Birmingham.
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Gov. Jerry Brown of California took a stand for immigrants' rights and humane, sensible government when he signed several new bills into law. It is a welcome change from the intolerance and counterproductive policies being adopted in so many other states around the country.
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At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country's border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
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With the presidential election looming slightly more than a year away, a stark contrast exists between Democratic and Republican strategies to reach Latino voters, a difference that is clearly apparent in opinions held by the Hispanic electorate.
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Oct 14, 2011
The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of parts of Alabama's cruel immigration law.
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