Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test.
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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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Mar 20, 2012
In a brief filed Tuesday, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to find unconstitutional Arizona's law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants. "Petitioners assert that Arizona's status as a border State that is particularly affected by illegal immigrationjustifies its adoption of its own policy directed to foreign...
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Humberto Guzman drove big rigs in Alabama for two months. As an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, he feared being deported everyday. "The police would come after us a lot," Guzman said. "Where we parked was the problem because they always asked us for our papers."
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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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This week, we as civil rights and labor leaders are headed to the Hyundai shareholders meeting in Seoul, South Korea. We aren't going because we hold investments in Hyundai; we're going because Hyundai has a lot invested in the state of Alabama, and vice versa, and those investments are...
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Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56.
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Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56.
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For a few days now, we've been reporting on Wade Henderson's, Eliseo Medina's, and Dae Joong Yoon's adventures in South Korea. The three of them took a 14 hour flight to Seoul to attend a shareholder's meeting at Hyundai's headquarters, where they asked Hyundai's leadership to to take a...
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