Mitt Romney has taken a hard-line position on immigration reform of late. But, apparently, he's got a top secret plan to deal with the issue. Continue »
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), a longtime supporter of immigration reform, was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, and tweeted about it. Continue »
On Saturday, December 3, William Anderson, Ingrid Chapman, and Victor Palafox – some of my favorite organizers in Alabama – teamed up with Occupy Birmingham and organized a protest of the Etowah County detention center in Gadsden, Alabama. Continue »
Just a couple of days after a Mercedes Benz executive from Germany was arrested and taken into custody under Alabama's worst-in-the-country immigration law, HB 56, a Honda employee from Japan was picked up by police and ticketed under the "papers, please" legislation. Continue »
A civil rights abuse hotline in Alabama -- set up by the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Law Center (NILC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), MALDEF, Latino Justice, Asian Law Caucus -- has fielded over 1,000 calls in just two days since the implementation of HB 56. Continue »
The AP reports that the agriculture industry is worried about enforcement measures like E-Verify, a flawed tool which would evaluate whether or not an employee is legal to work in the United States. Continue »
Over the past couple weeks, immigration has become one of the most contentious issues in the GOP presidential contest. Mitt Romney has tried to portray himself as the hardest of the hard core anti-immigrant voices in the race. He has become the leading voice for mass deportation. Romney's campaign... Continue »
Mitt Romney has officially staked out the most extreme immigration position possible: the removal of every undocumented immigrant in the nation. Continue »
Yesterday, 3400 people joined Members of Congress and state civic, civil rights, and religious leaders at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham to protest Alabama's Draconian, "papers, please" anti-immigrant law and to support the effort to repeal the legislation. Continue »
Yesterday, 3400 people joined Members of Congress and state civic, civil rights, and religious leaders at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham to protest Alabama's Draconian, "papers, please" anti-immigrant law and to support the effort to repeal the legislation. Continue »