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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At Saturday night's Republican presidential debate, most of the candidates continued to demonstrate how out of step they are with the public's wishes on immigration. As new Fox News polling makes clear, Mitt Romney and other candidates espousing mass deportation positions appeal to a very narrow sliver of...
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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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Arizona's two U.S. senators said Thursday they are concerned about reports of a large number of sex-crime investigations being botched by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office during a three-year period ending in 2007.
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Republicans now in charge of the state legislature are using their clout to push for new laws identifying illegal immigrants and limiting their use of public services. That effort got its start Wednesday in the House Committee on the State's Role in Immigration Policy, which drew a crowd representing...
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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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