Recently, the 11th circuit court blocked two parts of the nation's harshest anti-immigrant law, only making HB-56 the teeniest bit less severe. To recap, the court basically said that newly-enrolled students in Alabama don't need to show proof of lawful residency and immigrants apparently don't need to carry...
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A new poll shows that Latino voters don't know who the Republican 2012 presidential candidates are, but they don't like what they're hearing. This weekend, former Godfather Pizza CEO and newest GOP "front-runner" Herman Cain called for an electrified border fence capable of killing people, coupled with "real...
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A new poll shows that Latino voters don't know who the Republican 2012 presidential candidates are, but they don't like their immigration positions. Rhetoric like Herman Cain's, who this weekend called for an electrified fence and "real guns and real bullets" to deter border-crossers, is unlikely to improve...
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Alabama has recently begun implementing a law designed to kick Latinos and immigrants out of the state. If you thought Arizona was bad, Alabama is worse. This is Arizona on steroids.
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Latino and civil rights groups stepped up their protest of KFI radio's the "John and Ken Show" last week, bringing several dozen picketers to march outside KFI studios in Burbank, California.
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A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama's far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state and the United States Justice Department continued to fight over the law in the courts.
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Latino and other civil rights groups stepped up their efforts this week to knock the "John and Ken Show" off the air at KFI radio. Along with a public picket line outside KFI studios in Burbank, the groups have been pressuring advertisers to withdraw from the controversial radio talk...
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Alabama has what many consider to be the strictest anti-immigration law in the country. Now that the law has been in effect for a few weeks, the state's residents are starting to see what some of the unintended consequences are. Andrew Yeager of member station WBHM reports from Birmingham.
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At two campaign rallies in Tennessee on Saturday night, the Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country's border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally.
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As we continue to hear personal stories of the devastating effects of Alabama's immigration law, the architect of the law is crowing, "that's the point." Yesterday brought this contrast into stark relief.
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