The Supreme Court yesterday decided to review the federal government's challenge to Arizona's restrictive immigration law, SB 1070.
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In the space of a month, the Supreme Court has thrust itself into the center of American political life, agreeing to hear three major cases that could help determine which party controls the House of Representatives and whether President Obama wins a second term.
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Justice Elena Kagan said Monday that she would recuse herself from the challenge to Arizona's controversial immigration law, presumably because she served as President Obama's solicitor general when the federal government filed the original lawsuit against the state.
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A federal judge temporarily blocked a part of Alabama's tough new immigration law on Monday that requires residents to show proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes with the state.
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Immigration issues should be resolved by the federal government using smart enforcement techniques that keep families together, according to a bi-partisan group of state leaders who will announce a new "Iowa compact" tomorrow.
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Dec 12, 2011
Gov. Robert Bentley said Friday that he would work to revise the state's tough new immigration law after embarrassing incidents in which foreign workers were detained because they were not carrying sufficient identification.
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Immigration officials released an undocumented Alabama woman from custody on Thursday, about four hours after a Democratic congressman told Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano about her case.
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Firedoglake's David Dayen reports on the news that Alabama's Governor, Robert Bentley, is making noises about changing the state's harsh anti-immigrant law, which Bentley signed just a couple months ago.
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Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state's prized Honda and Mercedes plants.
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Huge chunks of Alabama's misguided immigration law already have been put on hold by federal courts, which means those provisions aren't likely to be upheld as they make their way through the system.
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