The largest anti-HB 56 protest to come to Montgomery, Alabama happened this past Saturday, when 2500 protestors came to the state capitol to rally for the repeal of the nation's harshest immigration law.
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Congress failed to enact any meaningful immigration legislation this year, leaving in place a woefully flawed system. Sure, it's a vexing issue. But ignoring the problem only makes matters worse. Here are five troubling trends.
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Lawyers for the Justice Department and a group of 36 plaintiffs asked a federal appeals court this morning not to delay argument over the Alabama immigration law pending the Supreme Court's ruling in the Arizona immigration law case.
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Several leaders of the Roman Catholic, United Methodist and Episcopal churches in Alabama wrote a letter Monday to the governor, saying they are praying he will show political courage and support repeal of Alabama's immigration law.
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Dec 19, 2011
Opponents of Alabama's immigration law marched with immigrant and civil rights leaders Saturday from the state Capitol steps to the governor's mansion to send a message of dissatisfaction with what some were calling a "mean and ugly law."
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Recently a little-known but symptomatic incident occurred in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a place symbolic of America's deep South and once an important center of the Ku Klux Klan and its white supremacist ideas.
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Alabama's stance on its extremist immigration law is shifting from defiance to damage control. Gov. Robert Bentley admitted this month that the law needed fixing and promised that he and legislative leaders would do that in next year's session.
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Immigrant rights advocates and civil rights leaders are gathering in Montgomery for a two-day event to call for repeal of Alabama's immigration law. The event includes a march Saturday from the Capitol to the Governor's Mansion.
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Alabama's new immigration law bars illegal immigrants from buying business licenses in the state, but local and state officials Wednesday said it's almost impossible for local governments to enforce the provision.
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If you can read the Human Rights Watch report on Alabama's immigration law and not be moved, you're probably one of our harsher posters on these blogs. Through in-person interviews, observation, media reports and other evidence, Human Rights Watch's 57-page report, released today, tells the stories of people who...
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