An Illinois congressman is urging federal officials to drop deportation proceedings against a South Carolina worker. Democratic congressman Luis Gutierrez appeared Wednesday with Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscaping worker, during an initial appearance at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Charleston.
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Alabama's construction industry is losing jobs faster than almost every state in the nation, and industry experts say some of the losses are due to the state's strict new immigration law. Figures from the Associated General Contractors, an Arlington, Va.-based trade group, showed that construction-related employment in Alabama has...
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The AP reports that the agriculture industry is worried about enforcement measures like E-Verify, a flawed tool which would evaluate whether or not an employee is legal to work in the United States.
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U.S. Justice Department officials said Monday that they have gotten more than 1,000 calls or emails reporting problems immigrants are having living under Alabama's immigration law.
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Occupy Birmingham is moving north to Gadsden for a few hours Saturday to protest the state's new immigration law and Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies. Erick Forsyth, a volunteer with Occupy Birmingham, said Gadsden was chosen for the demonstration because of ICE's connection with the Etowah County Detention Center.
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HOW CAN Alabama save face on immigration, now that we are practically the laughingstock of the nation? There's only one way: Repeal the law. Not because other states and The New York Times say we should. But because, by wading into this controversial national issue, Alabama has become mired...
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Civil rights groups say a judge's decision to halt part of Alabama's strict illegal immigration enforcement law averted a Thanksgiving weekend exodus of Hispanics from the state. Some portions of Alabama's law, known as HB 56 and described by supporters and critics as the harshest state immigration law in...
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On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company's manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a rental car without a tag. The police officer asked the man for his license, but the only paperwork he had with him was a German I.D....
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Alabama has built a name for itself in global economic development circles over the past 20 years for putting out a welcome mat for foreign companies, attracting billions of dollars in investment and tens of thousands of jobs, primarily in its booming automotive industry.
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Yesterday, 3400 people joined Members of Congress and state civic, civil rights, and religious leaders at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham to protest Alabama's Draconian, "papers, please" anti-immigrant law and to support the effort to repeal the legislation.
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