While the Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070 next week, Alabama is taking another look at HB 56, the local anti-immigrant law that was inspired by SB 1070. House representatives voted 64-34 yesterday to approve a tweak bill to the original...
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Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law, SB 1070—an all-important, game-changing clash between the federal supremacy clause, the need for federal immigration reform, and the belief that states can and should pursue efforts to make undocumented immigrants self-deport. Activists, officials, lawyers, and...
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Under fire for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law and reeling after the recent loss of support from Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Foods, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced today that they would begin focusing their efforts solely on economic issues, rather than social and cultural issues. The news...
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Colorado is one step closer to passing a bill that would discount tuition for undocumented students seeking to attend college in the state, reports the Denver Post. The measure passed the state Senate yesterday by a 20 Democrat – 14 Republican party-line vote, and now moves onto the state...
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The Kansas City Star today has an in-depth article on Kris Kobach, the sometimes-Kansas Secretary of State who is so passionately anti-immigrant that he works overtime in service of it. Kobach is Kansas Secretary of the State by day, a job which the Star notes “should be one of the...
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