Aug 8, 2011
A federal appeals court has vacated its ruling that declared a northeastern Pennsylvania city's illegal immigration law to be unconstitutional, setting the stage for a new round of arguments. The move by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday was expected after the U.S. Supreme Court...
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In an effort to ensure their citizens are treated fairly in Alabama, 16 nations, including Mexico, filed briefs against the state's controversial new immigration law that has already drawn fire from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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For months, civil and immigrant rights groups have urged the Obama administration to join their court fight against Georgia's tough new law targeting illegal immigration. A group of Atlanta-area immigration attorneys went so far as to sue the White House in federal court here, seeking to compel it to...
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The Department of Justice is putting a stop to the madness in Alabama, and is challenging the state's very anti-immigrant law, HB 56. From the press release yesterday: "Today's action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through...
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Arguing that the federal government sets immigration policy, the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to stop Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation law before it takes effect on Sept. 1. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Birmingham, is the third major legal challenge to the Alabama law.
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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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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) told CNN's Kyra Phillips on Wednesday his arrest outside the White House on Tuesday was "well worth it." Gutierrez noted that last Thursday, Obama "spoke at the probably oldest and most memorable civil rights organization in the Latino community here in the United States, National...
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Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Illinois who has become a perennial thorn on immigration for President Obama, was arrested Tuesday afternoon along with about a dozen activists in a protest outside the White House.
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Representative Lamar Smith and Rep. Elton Gallegly have really outdone themselves this time.
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