According to the Associated Press, Judge Blackburn has blocked enforcement of the Alabama's anti-immigrant law.
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In rural Alabama lies Cullman County, recognized as the "state's top agricultural community." David Palmer of The Cullman Times interviewed two farmers who express concern over Alabama's new anti-immigration law, which is scheduled to take effect in three days on September 1st. Both farmers come to the same...
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After a long, hot summer of protests and lawsuits, Alabama's tough new immigration law is scheduled to begin taking effect this week.
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A Washington Post editorial notes that Governor Rick Perry (R-TX) is just the latest candidate to use "the usual Republican crutch to justify his position, insisting that the border must be made secure before reform is possible. But the border is more secure than it has been in decades,...
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Rep. Lamar Smith, leader of the Congressional Mass Deportation Caucus and self-appointed leading pundit, recently sent a "Dear Colleague" letter pushing cherry-picked polling information to further his agenda.
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The Secure Communities Task Force hearing in Arlington, Virginia last night was not my first protest, but it was my first exposure to what we call "antis"—people from the anti-immigrant crowd. Some were reasonable, and some were not. Some were people I felt I could have a...
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After seeing walkouts in Los Angeles and arrests in Chicago, DHS' Secure Communities Task Force came to Arlington, Virginia last night for the last in a series of four hearings designed to gather public input on the deportation program.
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Last week, we reported that the White House has announced a new policy which says that DREAM Act youth and immigrants who haven't committed serious crimes, and who meet other reasonable criteria, won't face deportation.
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Local and national immigration experts spoke on a call with reporters to relate stories and highlight concerns that Secure Communities and other police-immigration collaboration efforts are destroying the relationship between police and immigrants and making communities across the country less safe.
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In advance of the final DHS Secure Communities Task Force hearing in Arlington Virginia, America's Voice Education Fund (AVEF) will release a new report, "Public Safety on ICE: How Do You Police a Community That Won't Talk to You?" which documents the "chilling effect" that police-DHS collaboration has on...
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