According to some supporters of Alabama's worst-in-the-nation immigration law – figures such as State Senator Scott Beason, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL), U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), anti-immigrant leader Mark Krikorian, and immigration law architect and current Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) – the state's "papers, please"...
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According to some supporters of Alabama's worst-in-the-nation immigration law – figures such as State Senator Scott Beason, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL), U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), anti-immigrant leader Mark Krikorian, and immigration law architect and current Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) – the state's "papers, please"...
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The wide base of support that we saw yesterday outside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama is a clear sign that we who oppose HB 56 are the mainstream, while State Sen. Scott Beason and those who support the law are the extreme.
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About 2,200 people filled the sanctuary at 16th Street Baptist Church and overflowed outside to protest Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants. The rally, part of the One Family One Alabama national movement to overturn the law, featured nearly two dozen speakers. Speeches were translated into Spanish or...
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Birmingham Mayor William Bell told Democratic members of Congress holding a hearing on Alabama's new Immigration law that the legislation smacks of apartheid and Jim Crow laws. Bell told the lawmakers at an ad hoc hearing on Monday that the law passed this year by Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature places...
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A group of congressional Democrats gathered in Birmingham, Ala., on Monday to show support for a growing movement against the state's immigration law, aiming to "rush its demise," according to Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.).
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Imagine you are the chief executive of an international company looking to expand to the United States. You like states like Alabama, especially, because of their right-to-work laws, available sites for new industry and, most of all, the tax and other incentives they offer.
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As Mercedes-Benz executive Detlev Hager negotiated the streets of Tuscaloosa last week, he drove right into the controversy over Alabama's tough new immigration law. The rental car he was driving, lacking a tag, caught the attention of a local policeman, who stopped Hager on Wednesday. When the officer asked...
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Perhaps it can be argued that the arrest of a Mercedes-Benz manager in Tuscaloosa under the state's harsh immigration law is an unintended consequence, but certainly this sort of thing was foreseen.
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It's a big day in Alabama with the launch of the campaign against HB 56. You can follow the action via UStream and Twitter.
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