Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) yesterday admitted that the state's worst-in-the-nation immigration law needs changes. Gov. Bentley's comments come after continued stories criticizing the economic catastrophe for Alabama agriculture, burdensome new requirements forced upon Alabama small businesses, and damage to the state's reputation as a place foreign companies...
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Gov. Robert Bentley called for simplifying some elements of the state's strict new immigration law during a speech in Birmingham on Monday. Bentley, speaking to the Birmingham Business Alliance, did not have specifics on what would be changed, but The Associated Press reported him saying the central parts of...
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The state senator who wrote Arizona's controversial immigration law faces a recall election Tuesday in what is considered a referendum on public support for tough measures against illegal immigrants.
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With Republicans who control the Alabama Legislature saying they are focused most of all on creating jobs in Alabama, one can't help but wonder why they would support an overreaching immigration law that is creating uncomfortably familiar publicity for the state, which may well be used against Alabama and...
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Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer for Facebook, said US education and immigration policy were to blame for the fierce battle Silicon Valley technology companies were fighting over engineers.
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Twenty-five years ago, the Immigration Reform and Control Act became law. Most people know the act as the 1986 "amnesty" bill. Since then, conservative rhetoric about an "invasion" and the "taking" of American jobs by immigrants has escalated. This rhetoric is not only wrong, but contrary to conservative...
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Portions of the nation's most harmful immigration law went into effect last month in Alabama, causing widespread fear and panic among the state's Latino population. It requires school officials to verify students' immigration status, prompting thousands of frightened Latino students not to show up for school.
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A leading conservative religous voice spoke up this past week over the nativist rhetoric that runs unchecked through the GOP party. Richard Land, a.k.a. "Chief Red Bull" (according to his Wikipedia page), is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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November 2011 marks not only one year before the 2012 election, but also represents an anniversary – it's been 25 years since President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which granted legal permanent residency to nearly 2.7 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Not...
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Since the implementation of the Alabama immigration law, our team here at America's Voice has been rotating through the Yellowhammer State, helping to organize a humanitarian response and collecting stories about how normal families have been affected by this monstrosity of a law.
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