Alabama's harsh new immigration law has been in effect for less than three months, but it has already wreaked the kind of havoc that's inevitable when legislators are so obsessed with driving out illegal immigrants that they don't think much about who else gets hurt in the process.
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Nearly a million undocumented immigrants could live and work openly in California with little or no fear of deportation under an initiative unveiled Friday by a state legislator and others. Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar, is helping to spearhead the measure, called the California Opportunity and Prosperity Act.
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Dec 2, 2011
In the current race to the bottom to see which state can provide the most degraded and dehumanizing environment for undocumented immigrants, Arizona and Alabama have grabbed the headlines. But largely unnoticed, it is Florida, home to nearly one million Cuban refugees and their descendants, that has come up...
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A judge has dropped immigration and driving charges against a Japanese employee at a Honda car plant in Alabama, the second foreign auto worker who had been charged under a new state law against illegal immigration.
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One shouldn't blame state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, for wishing the state's mean-spirited immigration law is responsible for Alabama's sharp decline in unemployment for October. The rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, and Hammon, the House majority leader and primary co-sponsor of HB56,...
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The "One Family, One Alabama" campaign launch against HB 56 may have happened more than a week ago, but we wanted to go back today to re-recognize the fantastic Congressional delegation that came to Alabama on their own dime to investigate the excesses and extremes of the nation's harshest...
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The news that a visiting Japanese employee of Honda's plant in Lincoln, Alabama was stopped and received a citation under a provision of the state's "papers, please" immigration law is further indication that the worst-in-the-nation immigration law is devastating Alabama's reputation. On the heels of a similar story,...
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The news that a visiting Japanese employee of Honda's plant in Lincoln, Alabama was stopped and received a citation under a provision of the state's "papers, please" immigration law is further indication that the worst-in-the-nation immigration law is devastating Alabama's reputation. On the heels of a similar story,...
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The terrible Alabama immigration law remains a hot topic of conversation, and it probably will be until the law is repealed or thrown out by the federal courts. I'm betting on the federal courts over repeal.
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A Japanese man temporarily working at Honda's car factory in east Alabama became the second foreign auto worker charged under the state's law on illegal immigration, the company said Wednesday.
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