In an editorial entitled Alabama’s Disgrace, the New York Times ripped into the failure of Alabama’s lawmakers to correct the racially-provocative anti-immigrant law passed last year: The lawmakers’ challenge was to fix last year’s terrible immigration law, House Bill 56, which turned state and local police officers into papers-checking immigration agents and imposed a...
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After Alabama’s harsh anti-immigrant law passed last year, migrant farm workers fled the state. This left crops rotting in the fields. Farmers have reluctantly decided that the only way to deal with the labor shortage is to plant less crops. This means that many farms there will lose profitability, state and local governments will...
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The Justice Department sent a letter to the State of Alabama warning that a new anti-immigrant law (H.B. 56) has “had significant and measurable impacts on Alabama’s schoolchildren, impacts that have weighed most heavily on Hispanic…students.” The law authorized harassment of Latino students and their parents by requiring inquiries into the immigration status of...
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Pastors in Alabama are airing this ad against the state’s odious anti-immigrant law over the Easter/Passover weekend.
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The fight against Alabama’s anti-immigrant law went international last week. Human rights advocates traveled to Korea to demand that automaker Hyundai speak out against the new law. Advocates are also calling on Daimler and Honda to do the same. The car industry has been a growing part of Alabama’s economy, employing 45,000 workers.  It...
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Today’s New York Times has an editorial, When States Put Out the Unwelcome Mat, looking at the use of state laws to attack immigrants. Here is an excerpt: There is one area, besides copper mining and home foreclosures, where Arizona is a national leader. It’s at the front of a movement by states and...
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When the legal illiterates in the Alabama legislature passed their worst-in-the-nation law against immigrants and Latinos they assured voters the law would stand up in court. Every month brings news of a court blocking yet another part of the law as unconstitutional. Yesterday two more sections were enjoined by the Eleventh Circuit Court of...
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard arguments today on the injunction blocking Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law. Most of that law is not in effect because of it’s shaky constitutionality. Don’t expect a decision soon. The court won’t rule until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Arizona...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has just released the results of its investigation into the effects of Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law HB 56 on the state’s Latinos. Called Alabama’s Shame, the report details dozens of anti-immigrant acts motivated by the law. The report concludes that “As the Latinos whose stories are told here can...
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Here is a great video interview with a young Latina mother who explains the impact Alabama’s anti-immigrant law has had on her family. We don’t often hear the voices of those most harmed by this racist law. Take two minutes to listen.
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