Oct 7, 2011
The baby girl was born on October 3, weighing just 5 pounds 15 ounces. But just as she came into the world, her father, a dishwasher in a restaurant, was detained by immigration authorities, possibly to be deported. The mother, who is 20 years old and also undocumented,...
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Alabama's controversial new immigration enforcement law is fostering an environment of fear in the state's classrooms that's affecting all students, leading critics of law said during a Wednesday conference call. The new law requires that all schools verify the immigration status of children enrolling for the first time....
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The nation's harshest immigration law, upheld by a federal judge last week, is creating nothing short of a "humanitarian crisis," opponents of the law said in a news conference this afternoon. Attorneys, educators and children's advocates said the effects of the law mirror the fear and racism felt...
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To his credit, Gov. Rick Snyder has not joined the anti-immigrant chorus being sung by some members of his party. Shrewdly, he sees immigration as high-octane fuel for Michigan's economy. But if Snyder really wants to push the pedal, he can encourage all Michigan universities to offer in-state tuition...
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Alabama immigration law HB 56 hasn't just terrorized the state's undocumented immigrants. Their children, many of them native-born U.S. citizens, are also suffering the consequences of the state's torturous immigration politics.
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As news continues to highlight the devastation incurred by Alabama in the wake of its "Arizona on steroids" anti-immigration law, new comments by a leading anti-immigration advocate underscore an important point. In their obsession with "illegal" immigration, the anti-immigrant forces and the mostly Republican backers of laws advancing...
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Below are the first two columns in a series on the Alabama anti-immigration law from Maribel Hastings, Senior Advisor of America's Voice Education Fund. These articles were originally published in Spanish on various outlets. The English-Language versions were published on Latino Voices Huffington Post.
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A federal judge has refused to block Alabama's strict new immigration law while the Obama administration appeals a ruling last week that upholds major portions of it. Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of United States District Court had upheld provisions allowing the police to ask for immigration papers during routine...
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Montgomery Public Schools' officials said the state's new immigration law already is having a significant impact on the system with the potential to cost students valuable class time and the system money.
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Alabama's strict new immigration law may be backfiring. Intended to force illegal workers out of jobs, it is also driving away many legal immigrant workers who work in construction and on farms doing backbreaking jobs that Americans generally won't.
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