More on Alabama and the HB 56 anti-immigrant law today: This American Life at NPR radio has a great broadcast entitled "Reap What You Sow" – a comprehensive story about life in Alabama under HB 56.
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and others like to pontificate about the evils of illegal immigration. But it turns out these politicians are missing a key point: Kansas needs illegal immigrants.
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Jan 30, 2012
While President Obama's State of the Union address did not focus on immigration, his few statements on that issue sent out conflicting signals. The president pushed for a comprehensive immigration reform plan that includes letting foreign businessmen and entrepreneurs immigrate to the U.S.
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Jan 27, 2012
ALABAMA'S immigration law, boasted Micky Hammon, an Alabama legislator and one of its co-authors, "attacks every aspect of an illegal immigrant's life. They will not stay in Alabama…This bill is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves."
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The House Economic Development and Tourism Committee on Thursday previewed new legislation that would help industry recruiters, but the committee also heard that the state's anti-immigration law is being used against them by other states.
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Jan 26, 2012
The Texas law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates, a flashpoint issue that helped doom Republican Gov. Rick Perry's campaign for president, is set to be tweaked Thursday to remind students they promised to seek legal status.
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Jan 24, 2012
Supporters and opponents of Arizona's controversial immigration law are squaring off again after Democrats say they're working to repeal the measure. Dozens of protesters gathered at the state Capitol on Monday, carrying signs and shouting at each other as lawmakers on both sides discussed the 2010 law.
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Democratic state lawmakers say they will seek to repeal parts of Georgia's tough new immigration enforcement law, complaining it is harming the state's $68.8 billion farming industry. But the chances of such a repeal passing this year are likely slim.
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"This is a jobs bill," they said. "This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans," they said. Such were the arguments that Alabama Senator Scott Beason (R) and Rep. Micky Hammon (R) made last year before passing their notoriously anti-immigrant state law, HB 56.
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On a humid, rainy winter morning on the outskirts of Charleston, Shirley Juarez is setting tables, laying out doormats and getting ready for another weekday lunch rush at El Chapin, a Central American restaurant here. It's a taste of home for the Guatemala native who came to the United...
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