Lawsuits by churches, the U.S. government and civil-rights groups seeking to stop Alabama from enforcing new restrictions on illegal immigrants will be heard as one. U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn in Birmingham, Alabama, ordered the cases' consolidation yesterday. Episcopal, Roman Catholic and Methodist bishops.
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The president of a national religious organization and five others went on trial Friday in Phoenix a year after they were arrested while protesting Arizona's tough immigration law and a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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Jul 29, 2011
I am about to go on trial in Phoenix. One year ago, I was arrested during an act of nonviolent civil disobedience to speak out against anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona. Side by side with local activists and fellow Unitarian Universalists from across the nation, I was protesting Maricopa County...
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For some believers and church leaders, opposing Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation law against illegal immigration is a chance for Bible Belt redemption. During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, many state churches didn't join the fight to end Jim Crow laws and racial segregation.
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My colleagues just came back from Netroots Nation cheering the inclusion of immigration reform squarely on the progressive agenda. While they were geeking out in Minneapolis, the Southern Baptists were getting busy at their own convention in Phoenix, passing a resolution in support of immigration reform.
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Last week, DREAMers and members of Florida's interfaith community came together to thank Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) for sponsoring the reintroduction of the DREAM Act.
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This very powerful statement from African-American and Latino religious leaders was issued in advance of today's House hearing on immigration issues.
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About 100 religious leaders and members of the Latin and Hispanic communities of Manatee and Sarasota counties met Saturday morning at the Palmetto Youth Center for the Faith against Racism breakfast to discuss Florida's proposed immigration law.
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On a cold and dreary Sunday evening, dozens of DREAMers and their supporters gathered together on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to sing slightly altered holiday carols – all with a witty DREAM Act theme. Watch as Eric Byler, of 9500 Liberty and the Coffee Party fame,...
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With the Senate poised to vote on the DREAM Act before the close of this lame duck session, dozens of prominent clergy – including bishops, national leaders and clergy from numerous key states–converged on the nation's Capitol today to press Senators to vote in favor of the DREAM Act....
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