A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration.
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One shouldn't blame state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, for wishing the state's mean-spirited immigration law is responsible for Alabama's sharp decline in unemployment for October. The rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, and Hammon, the House majority leader and primary co-sponsor of HB56,...
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The "One Family, One Alabama" campaign launch against HB 56 may have happened more than a week ago, but we wanted to go back today to re-recognize the fantastic Congressional delegation that came to Alabama on their own dime to investigate the excesses and extremes of the nation's harshest...
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Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held yet another hearing on immigration. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the leading anti-immigrant voice in the GOP, exhibited egregious behavior during his questioning of former Sacramento Police Chief Art Venegas, a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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The news that a visiting Japanese employee of Honda's plant in Lincoln, Alabama was stopped and received a citation under a provision of the state's "papers, please" immigration law is further indication that the worst-in-the-nation immigration law is devastating Alabama's reputation. On the heels of a similar story,...
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The news that a visiting Japanese employee of Honda's plant in Lincoln, Alabama was stopped and received a citation under a provision of the state's "papers, please" immigration law is further indication that the worst-in-the-nation immigration law is devastating Alabama's reputation. On the heels of a similar story,...
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A civil rights abuse hotline in Alabama -- set up by the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Immigration Law Center (NILC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), MALDEF, Latino Justice, Asian Law Caucus -- has fielded over 1,000 calls in just two days since the implementation of HB 56.
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The terrible Alabama immigration law remains a hot topic of conversation, and it probably will be until the law is repealed or thrown out by the federal courts. I'm betting on the federal courts over repeal.
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A Japanese man temporarily working at Honda's car factory in east Alabama became the second foreign auto worker charged under the state's law on illegal immigration, the company said Wednesday.
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An Illinois congressman is urging federal officials to drop deportation proceedings against a South Carolina worker. Democratic congressman Luis Gutierrez appeared Wednesday with Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscaping worker, during an initial appearance at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Charleston.
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