Portions of the nation's most harmful immigration law went into effect last month in Alabama, causing widespread fear and panic among the state's Latino population. It requires school officials to verify students' immigration status, prompting thousands of frightened Latino students not to show up for school.
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Nov 7, 2011
Look out: Alabama is the target of a bunch of "outside agitators" again. You know, like when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers came here in the 1950s and '60s. Only this time, the "outside agitators" are here for a different civil rights issue.
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U.S. Justice Department officials said Friday the department is investigating complaints that Alabama's immigration law is running afoul of federal civil rights laws by denying children access to public education.
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One would think that if curbing illegal immigration was truly a state concern, the Legislature would pass a law that provided for training and funding for the various venues of enforcement.
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Surely Alabama's attorney general, Luther Strange, did not mean to summon the memory of Gov. George Wallace when he picked a fight with the Department of Justice last week over the state's new immigration law.
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ON TUESDAY Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil-rights division, sent a letter to the superintendents of Alabama's school districts. HB56, Alabama's harsh immigration law, requires "public schools to determine the citizenship and immigration status of students enrolling."
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Latino liberals are preparing to betray their pro-immigrant rhetoric by helping to re-elect the most anti-immigrant president in six decades. Three reasons: They're loyal to the brand of the Democratic Party; they put their party before their people; and they claim that things will be worse for Latino immigrants...
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A group of Democratic members of Congress opposed to Alabama's immigration law will be in Birmingham later this month to draw attention to what they say is a civil rights emergency.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta has scheduled oral arguments involving Georgia and Alabama's stringent new immigration laws for next year, likely leaving key parts of those measures on hold for several more months.
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House Republicans are split over an immigration bill that is backed by presidential candidate Mitt Romney as the measure is attracting escalating criticism from industry groups and rank-and-file members.
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