Governor Bentley signed the HB 56 “tweak” bill, HB 658, late on Friday — making the country’s worst anti-immigrant law even worse.
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Senator Scott Beason — the guy who once said that we should “empty the clip, and do what has to be done ”; referred to people at a casino in a predominately black county as “aborigines”; and author of the worst anti-immigrant law in the country, H.B....
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Great read from the Associated Press today about DREAMers and the growing movement of students who are defying the law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and their parents by “coming out” publicly as undocumented. From the article: It began several years ago, tentatively, almost furtively, with a few small rallies...
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La ley exige a las escuelas públicas del estado determinar el estatus migratorio de los estudiantes y niega el acceso a educación superior a inmigrantes indocumentados.
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La Casa Blanca debería ofrecer un alivio administrativo a los jóvenes que cumplen con los requisitos básicos: estar aquí sin papeles, estar estudiando o haber estudiado: muchos de ellos ya están graduados y sin opciones laborales del nivel que merecen sus títulos, tener buena conducta, no delitos, etc.
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Big news from the US Census Bureau this week: for the first time, ethnic minority babies are the majority of children born in the US. Plenty of blogs and editorials have covered the seismic shift, pointing out that these demographic changes will transform policies and politics, whether certain policymakers accept the facts or...
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