Some relief for Alabamians! The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of parts of Alabama's cruel immigration law.
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As firsthand accounts continue to document the devastating effects of Alabama's immigration law on undocumented and legal immigrants as well as U.S. citizens, the architect of the law is crowing, "that's the point." Yesterday brought this contrast into sharp relief, as leading officials from the U.S. Department of...
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The Alabama chapter of the NAACP hosted a town hall and panel discussion today, giving the immigrant community a chance to ask questions about Alabama's monster immigration law and how it might affect them.
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Department of Justice officials made a surprise appearance at a community forum in Birmingham, Ala. on Thursday evening, encouraging residents to report civil rights violations in the wake of the state's harsh new immigration law.
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The federal government's top civil rights lawyer is asking Alabama immigrants to report any problems caused by that state's tough new law against illegal Immigration. The assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of civil rights, Thomas Perez, met with scores of Hispanics and others at an elementary school in...
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Isobel Gomez's apartment on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama, has the hunkered-down quality of a wartime bunker. There are boxes of bottled water, rice, beans and tortillas stacked against the living room wall – sufficient to last her family of five several days. The curtains are drawn and the...
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In an email so grotesque it almost resembles a parody, former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) published his full-throated support of the Alabama immigration law this week, defending mass deportation and human suffering before asking his readers to contribute to such efforts.
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On September 28, a federal court in Alabama shut the door on equality, educational opportunities, and fundamental fairness. In denying an emergency stay request, the federal court instead opened the door to fear, hatred, discrimination, and an attack on the most vulnerable of all -- Alabama's children.
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The U.S. Justice Department set up a hotline to field complaints about new Alabama immigration laws that the federal government went to court to block. The phone line and an accompanying e-mail address were established "for the public to report potential civil rights concerns related to the impact" of...
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More than 200 Latino-owned businesses across the state voluntarily closed today in a show of solidarity against Alabama's immigration law, according to an announcer for a Hispanic radio station in Pelham.
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