Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer for Facebook, said US education and immigration policy were to blame for the fierce battle Silicon Valley technology companies were fighting over engineers.
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Twenty-five years ago, the Immigration Reform and Control Act became law. Most people know the act as the 1986 "amnesty" bill. Since then, conservative rhetoric about an "invasion" and the "taking" of American jobs by immigrants has escalated. This rhetoric is not only wrong, but contrary to conservative...
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Portions of the nation's most harmful immigration law went into effect last month in Alabama, causing widespread fear and panic among the state's Latino population. It requires school officials to verify students' immigration status, prompting thousands of frightened Latino students not to show up for school.
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A leading conservative religous voice spoke up this past week over the nativist rhetoric that runs unchecked through the GOP party. Richard Land, a.k.a. "Chief Red Bull" (according to his Wikipedia page), is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Since the implementation of the Alabama immigration law, our team here at America's Voice has been rotating through the Yellowhammer State, helping to organize a humanitarian response and collecting stories about how normal families have been affected by this monstrosity of a law.
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The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named...
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Look out: Alabama is the target of a bunch of "outside agitators" again. You know, like when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers came here in the 1950s and '60s. Only this time, the "outside agitators" are here for a different civil rights issue.
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U.S. Justice Department officials said Friday the department is investigating complaints that Alabama's immigration law is running afoul of federal civil rights laws by denying children access to public education.
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One would think that if curbing illegal immigration was truly a state concern, the Legislature would pass a law that provided for training and funding for the various venues of enforcement.
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Surely Alabama's attorney general, Luther Strange, did not mean to summon the memory of Gov. George Wallace when he picked a fight with the Department of Justice last week over the state's new immigration law.
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