The Lawrence Journal-World reports today that the Kansas state legislature probably won't be moving forward with a slate of immigration bills supported by Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kobach, who has managed to impose his anti-immigrant vision on states like Arizona and Alabama, appears to be swing-and-a-miss in...
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Thousands of critical words have been written about Alabama's illegal-immigration law, the mean-spirited HB56 officially known as the Beason-Hammon Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act. Until that law is repealed, paragraphs of criticism will surely continue to flow — justifiably so.
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You'll often hear that the immigration debate suffers from a lack of political will. But what it really needs is honesty and clarity. And so, thank goodness for people like Peter Brimelow. His beliefs are vile, dangerous and antithetical to the greatest traditions of this country. But what is...
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Last September, a federal court judge allowed a sweeping immigration crackdown law to take effect. That legislation, which was signed into law by Governor Bentley in June of 2011, quickly progressed into a unrelenting nightmare for immigrant families living in the state. Many in America had no idea...
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Condescension is never appetizing. Not even when it's wrapped around a chimichanga. A political food fight broke out this week when Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank essentially wrote in a column that the Republican Party had nothing left to offer Latino voters other than the chimichanga.
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Some see it as a great irony and others as complete lack of cultural sensibility and knowledge of Latinos, but the most recent political debate between Democrats and Republicans, have Latinos as main actor and a "chimichanga" (sort of a tex mex fried burrito) as the evidence.
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An alert state employee in Kansas likely helped save lives. The employee noticed a pickup parked in a restricted lot outside the Kansas Judicial Center, south of the Statehouse, without the required state worker tag.
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Yesterday, we wrote about the premiere of Chris Weitz's "Is this Alabama?" film series, a collection of four short videos documenting life under Alabama's HB 56 immigration law.
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Colorlines has another story about families being ripped apart by the nation's broken immigration system. This is about Felipe Montes, who was deported in 2010. His children were place in foster care. Now, officials in Allegheny County in North Carolina want to strip him of his parental rights.
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Not all Alabamians support the state's HB 56 immigration law, explicitly designed to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state. In a new series of videos, Director Chris Weitz, the man behind the film "A Better Life," documents some of the reasons why.
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