Memo to the Alabama state legislature: if they're going to be so zealously anti-immigrant that they pass a law which spawns a civil rights and humanitarian crisis, the least they might do is make sure it's constitutional.
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Gov. Robert Bentley could have brought more decency and reason into the debate over Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law. Instead, when HB56 passed the Republican-controlled Legislature in June, he was a strong supporter, proud of the law's unprecedented reach.
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The "nation's toughest immigration law" was a politically popular choice as it made its way through the Alabama Legislature this year. HB56 passed by wide margins in the Senate and House, and its passage was hailed as a great event for the state. It may yet turn out that...
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Regardless of the side upon which we fall in the issue of illegal immigration in Alabama, we as a state -- and nation -- have failed miserably to address the issue of the problem far too long.
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This is what happens when the Legislature and governor support a law that appeals more to ugly emotion than to simple logic. To really get to most of Alabama's small undocumented worker/immigrant problem, the Legislature could have simply adopted E-Verify, the federal database that verifies immigrant status.
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Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States. That community finds itself in dire straits in Alabama under its new law HB 56, which, even after a court ruling temporarily blocking...
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Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States. That community finds itself in dire straits in Alabama under its new law HB 56, which, even after a court ruling temporarily blocking...
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Despite the temporary stay of some provisions of Alabama law HB 56, fear persists in the state's immigrant community. The law's consequences continue to have palpable effects on thousands of families, including those of mixed immigration status—such as that of a young undocumented man we'll call Ramón.
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As the devastating consequences of Alabama's "papers, please" immigration law continue to unfold across the state, the governor who signed the bill into law appears to be blissfully unaware of the damage it is having on his state's reputation.
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Congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt deportations of immigrants without criminal records who have been detained under Alabama law HB 56 while the courts consider the Department of Justice's suit to declare the law unconstitutional.
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