Feb 8, 2012
Does anyone (besides Mitt Romney) listen to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee anymore?
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As the story of sexual abuse at an elementary school in Los Angeles continues to shock the nation, Spanish-language media is reporting another tragic development. Parents of some Miramonte Elementary School children are afraid to go to informational meetings or talk to the police because they worry that...
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In Alabama this Valentine's Day? Help us take a stand against HB 56, Alabama's immigration law. The state legislature returns to session this week and we need to show them that there is NO love for HB 56 in Alabama.
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Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them push for a total repeal of the law in the state's Republican-controlled legislature.
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Civil rights, labor and immigration activists say they are returning to Selma, Ala. next month to protest state laws they say will largely prevent black and Latino voters, the poor, students and the elderly from voting.
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Opponents of Alabama's law on illegal immigration are planning a Valentine's Day demonstration at the Statehouse in Montgomery. The Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice is organizing a day of rallying and lobbying at the Legislature next Tuesday.
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As the Alabama state legislature begins its new legislative session today, the costs and consequences of the state's "papers, please" anti-immigration law is the hottest political topic in the state.
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California Proposition 187 was a 1994 ballot initiative to prohibit undocumented immigrants from health care, public education, and other social services.
At the time, Gov. Pete Wilson was its most ardent supporter. And now, former Gov. Pete Wilson is Mitt Romney's.
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The hot new immigration buzzword these days is "self-deportation," also known as "attrition through enforcement," and the Immigration Policy Center has a new report this week explaining the full, frightening reality of what it is.
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Whoever said "all P.R. is good P.R." probably never had dozens of protesters gathered in front of the office calling them "Hitler." That's what happened during a recent lunchtime in the Birmingham, Ala., business district, as students from several local colleges held a mock funeral in front of a...
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