Nov 3, 2011
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against South Carolina to block the implementation of SB 20, a divisive and dangerous anti-immigrant law signed by Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) earlier this year.
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Multiple Republican presidential contenders yesterday blasted the Justice Department for suing South Carolina over its egregiously misguided immigration law. Yet with the exception of Herman Cain, they have thus far remained silent on the devastating toll Alabama's own law is taking on families, businesses, and communities. Why...
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Yesterday, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez wrote to Alabama school districts reminding them, "that denying innocent children the benefit of schooling provided to other students within the district was unconstitutional."
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How many undocumented immigrants in Alabama would meet the criteria set by new federal regulations to be "low priorities" for deportation if they were to be detained?
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The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter late Monday to school superintendents in Alabama requesting information on enrollment practices, saying the state's new immigration law "may chill or discourage" participation in public education.
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Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said Tuesday that he expected the legal battle over Alabama's new immigration law to end up in the nation's highest court.
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Some posters wonder why we keep writing about the state's malicious immigration law. They want to know why I believe it targets a certain group of people (brown), when the law itself claims it doesn't.
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Nov 1, 2011
We've been reporting on the unwelcome national and global attention Alabama is receiving for its immigration law, HB 56. Now it's time to get indignant about the maltreatment Alabama's immigrant community is suffering under the law, and the insensitivity they're being shown by those who have convinced themselves the...
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Justice Department officials pressed their campaign against an immigration law in South Carolina on Monday, saying the measure passed there this summer unconstitutionally pre-empts federal authority.
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Health officials fear Alabama's tough new law against illegal immigration could increase the risk of illnesses across the state because many Hispanic immigrants worried about arrest and deportation already have stopped seeking medical care at government clinics.
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