A group of Democratic members of Congress opposed to Alabama's immigration law will be in Birmingham later this month to draw attention to what they say is a civil rights emergency.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta has scheduled oral arguments involving Georgia and Alabama's stringent new immigration laws for next year, likely leaving key parts of those measures on hold for several more months.
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Farmers in Alabama are in revolt against the state's over-the-top immigration law, which is designed to hound illegal immigrants so that they move elsewhere. As it happens, a substantial portion of farm workers there, as in other states, are undocumented. In the farmers' view, the law is depriving them...
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Nov 3, 2011
Over a month after the nation's toughest immigration law took effect in Alabama, hundreds of Hispanic students are still missing from the state's public school system – and they are likely gone for good.
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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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How many undocumented immigrants in Alabama would meet the criteria set by new federal regulations to be "low priorities" for deportation if they were to be detained?
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The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter late Monday to school superintendents in Alabama requesting information on enrollment practices, saying the state's new immigration law "may chill or discourage" participation in public education.
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Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Tuesday that he expected the legal battle over Alabama's new immigration law to end up in the nation's highest court.
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Some posters wonder why we keep writing about the state's malicious immigration law. They want to know why I believe it targets a certain group of people (brown), when the law itself claims it doesn't.
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Nov 1, 2011
We've been reporting on the unwelcome national and global attention Alabama is receiving for its immigration law, HB 56. Now it's time to get indignant about the maltreatment Alabama's immigrant community is suffering under the law, and the insensitivity they're being shown by those who have convinced themselves the...
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