In an 11 am press conference in Montgomery, Alabama today, the American Civil Liberties Union, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Immigration Law Center, the Asian American Justice Center and the Asian Law Caucus have filed a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of HB... Continue »
Friday, a formal lawsuit opposing the State of Alabama's new immigration law is expected to be filed in court. While many Alabamians are in favor of the new so-called "Arizona-style" law, there is one specific group of people who depend on the labor that immigrants are often willing to... Continue »
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) continues to insist that his forced E-Verify legislation would be a good thing for the U.S. economy and U.S. job seekers. However, Smith's fellow conservatives and leading libertarians disagree. Continue »
As the Georgia legislative session wound down earlier this year, state Rep. Matt Ramsey, the author of a controversial immigration bill that is considered one of the nation's strictest, held consultations with a man who is a fixture in the Capitol hallways. His name is D.A. King. Continue »
In a trailer park in the US state of Alabama, the reality of a strict new anti-illegal immigration law comes to the fore, a reality that cuts through the blaming, the endless bickering, the legal and political manoeuvring that preceded its enactment. Continue »
If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn't get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona's attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution,... Continue »
Georgia is about to change. Significantly. And not for the better. July 1 brings the effective date of two very different new state laws, each bearing witness to what can best be described as the "coarsening" of Georgia. These and other laws signal a changed state, one ripped from... Continue »
Last week, just hours before Mandeep and her mother were scheduled to be deported to India, we learned that immigration officials changed their minds and canceled the deportation. At the last minute, she was given a one year stay of deportation. This was no doubt thank to the thousands... Continue »
Alabama is the latest state to see a mass exodus of Hispanics after passing a strict illegal immigration law, leaving construction firms without employees to rebuild the state after its April killer tornado, Bloomberg News reported. Continue »
The Texas Senate adjourned this week without a final vote on the "Sanctuary Cities" legislation that was one of Gov. Rick Perry's "emergency" items at the start of the year. The bill, which became an umbrella for a package of harsh immigration measures, crumbled during a 30-day special session... Continue »