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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Alabama's immigration law has led to illegal immigrants around the state having their basic rights denied and should be repealed, a human rights group contends in a report being issued today. "The initial human impact has been devastating, though the full consequences remain unknown," stated the report, "No Way...
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A federal judge temporarily blocked a part of Alabama's tough new immigration law on Monday that requires residents to show proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes with the state.
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Dec 12, 2011
Gov. Robert Bentley said Friday that he would work to revise the state's tough new immigration law after embarrassing incidents in which foreign workers were detained because they were not carrying sufficient identification.
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Immigration officials released an undocumented Alabama woman from custody on Thursday, about four hours after a Democratic congressman told Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano about her case.
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Firedoglake's David Dayen reports on the news that Alabama's Governor, Robert Bentley, is making noises about changing the state's harsh anti-immigrant law, which Bentley signed just a couple months ago.
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Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state's prized Honda and Mercedes plants.
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Huge chunks of Alabama's misguided immigration law already have been put on hold by federal courts, which means those provisions aren't likely to be upheld as they make their way through the system.
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The struggle to overturn HB 56, Alabama's harshest-in-the-land immigration law gained a powerful new ally day before yesterday when state attorney general Luther Strange, a Republican, came out in favor of removing certain portions of the law.
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The Birmingham Business Alliance today said the Alabama Legislature needs to make significant revision to the state's controversial immigration law during the upcoming 2012 legislative session.
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