Alabama State Senator Scott Beason (R) has been getting a lot of attention lately. None of it good. He was one of the architects of the state's viciously anti-immigrant law. Yesterday, Beason was in the news again. He was booted as Chair of the Senate Rules Committee.
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Last night, on NBC's "Rock Center with Brian Williams," reporter Kate Snow did a segment on what Williams called the "huge controversy" in Alabama caused by the passage of HB 56. Snow's report showed the dire impacts of HB 56 on Alabama's Latino families and the state's farmers.
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Over the weekend, The New York Times' Julia Preston reported on the Obama administration's new deportation policy. And, her article echoed concerns we've been hearing: A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country.
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Last week on Wednesday, Antonieta Cadiz of La Opinion, the nation's leading Spanish language newspaper, asked the President for his opinion on Alabama's controversial law, HB 56. Obama was emphatic in his remarks, saying "It's a bad law. The idea that we have children afraid to go to...
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Russell Pearce is just like any other regular, anti-immigrant politician: racist and relentless. So it’s not wonder why, yesterday, immigration advocates and Arizonans alike celebrated as state senator Russell Pearce, architect of Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, lost to Jerry Lewis, the Republican candidate who was running against him...
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On a press call today, local and national immigration and labor experts discussed the results of the recall effort and what they mean for immigration policy and politics in the 2012 elections and beyond.
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November 2011 | Click here to download PDF Over the course of a single year, Russell Pearce fell from secure incumbency to resounding defeat. Jerry Lewis beat incumbent State Senator Russell Pearce soundly in the first-ever recall election of a state politician in Arizona history, getting 53.4% of the...
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In November of 2010, Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce, who sponsored Arizona's highly controversial anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, won reelection with a convincing 56.5% of the vote. He easily defeated two challengers, Democrat Andrew Sherwood and Libertarian Andrea Garcia.
Last night, he was recalled.
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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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We know Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) says one thing on immigration and does another, but this is especially rich. In an article in The Hill about how the GOP is split over the issue of E-Verify, Senator Rubio said he supports the legislation "in concept." But, he's an actual...
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