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Yesterday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez wrote to Alabama school districts reminding them, "that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional."
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The United States Department of Justice is seeking to block South Carolina's anti-immigrant law. This marks the third challenge to a state immigration law by DOJ. The others are Arizona and Alabama.
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Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) remains a Tea Party favorite and, despite his protests to the contrary, the leading vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2012. Central to Rubio's appeal is his Cuban-American heritage.
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Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) remains a Tea Party favorite and, despite his protests to the contrary, the leading vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2012. Central to Rubio's appeal is his Cuban-American heritage: some believe it will attract Hispanic voters in key swing states, despite...
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Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States. That community finds itself in dire straits in Alabama under its new law HB 56, which, even after a court ruling temporarily blocking...
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Oct 21, 2011
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Our African-American cab driver summed up Alabama law HB 56 better than any activist or public official: it's not an effective law from a humanitarian or economic standpoint, and with Alabama's ugly history in matters of race relations and civil rights, it's a shame that this...
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The Alabama chapter of the NAACP hosted a town hall and panel discussion today, giving the immigrant community a chance to ask questions about Alabama's monster immigration law and how it might affect them.
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In an email so grotesque it almost resembles a parody, former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) published his full-throated support of the Alabama immigration law this week, defending mass deportation and human suffering before asking his readers to contribute to such efforts.
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When the Alabama law passed, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley gave himself a pat on the back and said "Today is a victory for Alabama…During my campaign, I promised a tough law against illegal immigration, and we now have one." That tough law is also Alabama's cruelest.
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Below are the first two columns in a series on the Alabama anti-immigration law from Maribel Hastings, Senior Advisor of America's Voice Education Fund. These articles were originally published in Spanish on various outlets. The English-Language versions were published on Latino Voices Huffington Post.
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