Alabama and its anti-immigrant legislative vendetta have been in the news for the past few weeks. And we’re awaiting a Supreme Court decision on Arizona’s SB 1070. But we can’t forget about the other states that have passed these ugly laws — like Georgia. Writing at Huffington Post on the...
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In South Carolina's harsh anti-immigrant law, the legislature carved out a number of exemptions for jobs often filled by undocumented workers. Classic example of hypocrisy. They bash immigrants, but really need them.
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In South Carolina's harsh anti-immigrant law, the legislature carved out a number of exemptions for jobs often filled by undocumented workers. Classic example of hypocrisy. They bash immigrants, but really need them.
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Earlier this week, we wrote about the Silicon Valley "Tech Titans" who were supporting DREAMers through E4FC.org. Today, there's another major player from the business world weighing in on the immigration issue: Howard Buffett.
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Emotion over illegal immigration and a lack of understanding between politicians and farmers is hampering efforts to bring much-needed migrant labor into the U.S., a noted farmer, philanthropist and author said Thursday.
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Mother Jones has an excellent series exploring the different aspects of issue of the immigration issue. The first article, by Paul Reyes, is titled, "'It's Just Not Right': The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment." The magazine also exposes the inner-workings of those agitators in articles about Kris Kobach and...
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While Kris Kobach his wreaking havoc on the immigrant families and the economies of other states, the Agriculture Secretary in Kansas wants to create a program to allow undocumented immigrants to work.
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"This is a jobs bill," they said. "This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans," they said. Such were the arguments that Alabama Senator Scott Beason (R) and Rep. Micky Hammon (R) made last year before passing their notoriously anti-immigrant state law, HB 56.
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It's unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers owing to tough new laws targeting illegal immigration, but some producers said they have begun changing their plans for planting and harvesting this year's crops.
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