Earlier this week, The Hill newspaper reported that Senate Republicans, led by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), are pursuing an alternative, stripped down version of the DREAM Act in an attempt to improve the Party's standing with Latino voters.
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Georgia legislators are considering a proposal that would bar undocumented immigrants from receiving marriage licenses or access to water and sewage. The bill sponsored by Sen. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, has gotten a lot of attention because it would also bar undocumented immigrants from the state's public colleges, universities and...
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Just when it seemed that Georgia was coming to grips with the damage caused by HB 87, the state's Arizona-inspired anti-immigrant law, some lawmakers are again attempting to rush through new measures that would further marginalize and exclude immigrants from our community.
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and Florida's newly infamous Stand Your Ground law, many are beginning to look into the source of the law—the secretive, low-profile, highly influential American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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Congress may have finally found an immigration issue it can agree on in an election year: letting in more Irish people. At a time when the volatile issue of comprehensive immigration reform is hopelessly stalled in a divided Congress, senators of both parties are rallying behind legislation that would...
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Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice officials this morning said that Alabama's immigration law has affected the lives of immigrants and the state's economy and that's why the state should repeal it and why Mississippi and other states should not try to enact similar laws.
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Dozens of voter ID laws have been introduced in state legislatures over the past two years, including particularly strict measures passed in seven states in 2011 -- Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
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Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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