Oct 31, 2011
The epicenter of the fight over the patchwork of immigration laws in the United States is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the once-toughest immigration law in the country, was in Huntsville Friday to promote a new book, address the Alabama Federation of Republican Women and to praise Alabama's own immigration law.
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Michelle Bachmann said Saturday she would not help children of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally. At a campaign stop in Iowa, a Latino college student asked the presidential hopeful what she would do to the children of undocumented immigrants.
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Representative Tim Griffin, a Republican freshman from Arkansas with a university in his district, supports legislation that would make it easier for foreign math and science professionals to get legal residency.
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Alabama looks like it's on its own where the state's punitive immigration law is concerned. But it's not like we haven't been here before. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress this week that her department, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will not help implement Alabama's immigration law.
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In my forthcoming book that chronicles key events of 1963, I argue -- as have other historians -- that Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor was the Civil Rights Movement's best ally in changing the laws in Birmingham. He also changed how the nation viewed civil rights as an...
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Oct 28, 2011
A leading immigrant advocacy group warned Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday that his endorsement by Rep. Lamar Smith, author of several immigration bills, could later haunt his White House aspirations in a general election.
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Alabama immigration law H.B. 56 is driving undocumented immigrants out of the state, leaving jobs empty and some farms unable to harvest their crops. Most aren't leaving the country, though -- and an Alabama lawmaker says that's fine with him.
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The champions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration law have said that it is intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state by making every aspect of their life difficult. But they have taken a very different tone when it comes to the part of the law concerning schools.
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Salinan Tom Arpke said Wednesday he was shocked by the maximum $5,000 fine the Governmental Ethics Commission levied against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's campaign for mistakes made in filing expense and contribution reports for the 2010 election.
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