11/16/11 Yesterday, former Republican congressman and current Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam criticized the harsh anti-immigration laws passed in neighboring states Alabama and Georgia, pointing out that the laws are already having real economic consequences and arguing that Florida show not follow this path.
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11/16/11 Alabama State Senator Scott Beason (R) has been getting a lot of attention lately. None of it good. He was one of the architects of the state's viciously anti-immigrant law. Yesterday, Beason was in the news again. He was booted as Chair of the Senate Rules Committee.
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11/15/11 The implementation of Alabama's HB 56, the harshest anti-immigrant law in the nation, has touched off a humanitarian crisis felt throughout the state and across the nation. Families, paralyzed by fear and uncertainty, are fleeing the state in droves and children are afraid to go school or even leave their homes.
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11/15/11 Today is Day 8 of La Jefa Radio's "14 Cities, 14 Days, One Family, One Alabama" tour, with Program Director José Antonio Castro and radio personality Orlando Rosa broadcasting from Clanton, Alabama. The pair began their walk across Alabama last week in order to bring attention to the HB 56 immigration law.
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11/15/11 Last night, on NBC's "Rock Center with Brian Williams," reporter Kate Snow did a segment on what Williams called the "huge controversy" in Alabama caused by the passage of HB 56. Snow's report showed the dire impacts of HB 56 on Alabama's Latino families and the state's farmers.
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11/15/11 Opinion writers and columnists are still discussing the landmark Russell Pearce recall in Arizona last week, but we wanted to take time and make sure that other anti-immigrant extremists drummed out of office also had their day.
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11/14/11 Over the weekend, The New York Times' Julia Preston reported on the Obama administration's new deportation policy. And, her article echoed concerns we've been hearing: A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country.
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11/14/11 The fallout continues over last week's recall election of Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R), the architect of that state's SB 1070 anti-immigration law. As analysts ask what the result might mean for the future of anti-immigrant extremism and for Arizona's potential competitiveness in the 2012 elections, Pearce's ideological allies are spinning the results to a foregone conclusion.
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11/14/11 Last week on Wednesday, Antonieta Cadiz of La Opinion, the nation's leading Spanish language newspaper, asked the President for his opinion on Alabama's controversial law, HB 56. Obama was emphatic in his remarks, saying "It's a bad law. The idea that we have children afraid to go to school, because they feel afraid that their immigration status will lead to being detained…It's wrong…. This makes the law, not just anti-immigrant, but I believe it doesn't match our essential values as a country."
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11/10/11 Russell Pearce is just like any other regular, anti-immigrant politician: racist and relentless. So it’s not wonder why, yesterday, immigration advocates and Arizonans alike celebrated as state senator Russell Pearce, architect of Arizona’s infamous SB 1070, lost to Jerry Lewis, the Republican candidate who was running against him in Arizona’s recall election.
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11/10/11 Tuesday’s defeat of notorious anti-immigrant Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R) by fellow Republican Jerry Lewis in a recall election continues to resonate in Arizona and beyond. The architect of the state’s notorious “papers, please” immigration law, Pearce’s stunning defeat is a cautionary tale about the political dangers of anti-immigrant extremism and wedge politics.
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11/10/11 While members of our team were down in Alabama last week, we swung by the Birmingham News to meet up with editorial writer and columnist Joey Kennedy, who wrote about the organizational response to HB 56 last Sunday.
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11/09/11 Earlier this week, Rivera Communications and La Jefa Radio -- the largest Spanish- language radio station in Alabama launched their "14 Cities, 14 Days, One Family, One Alabama" walk across Alabama to meet and interview Alabamians from all walks of life, to broadcast live radio shows and hold rallies and events.
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11/09/11 On a press call today, local and national immigration and labor experts discussed the results of the recall effort and what they mean for immigration policy and politics in the 2012 elections and beyond.
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11/09/11 In November of 2010, Arizona State Senate President Russell Pearce, who sponsored Arizona's highly controversial anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, won reelection with a convincing 56.5% of the vote. He easily defeated two challengers, Democrat Andrew Sherwood and Libertarian Andrea Garcia. Last night, he was recalled.
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11/08/11 Move over, Mark Krikorian. Make way, Mo Brooks. Turns out we've got another Republican none too shy about getting out there and defending the Alabama immigration law, humanitarian crisis be damned.
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11/08/11 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) yesterday admitted that the state's worst-in-the-nation immigration law needs changes. Gov. Bentley's comments come after continued stories criticizing the economic catastrophe for Alabama agriculture, burdensome new requirements forced upon Alabama small businesses...
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11/07/11 A leading conservative religous voice spoke up this past week over the nativist rhetoric that runs unchecked through the GOP party. Richard Land, a.k.a. "Chief Red Bull" (according to his Wikipedia page), is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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11/07/11 Since the implementation of the Alabama immigration law, our team here at America's Voice has been rotating through the Yellowhammer State, helping to organize a humanitarian response and collecting stories about how normal families have been affected by this monstrosity of a law.
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11/07/11 The news that Mitt Romney is deploying automated attack calls in Iowa against Rick Perry on immigration should come as little surprise, given Romney's hard-line stance on immigration thus far in the 2012 cycle. What is notable, however, is that the anti-Perry calls feature an Arizona sheriff named Paul Babeu, who makes the claim that "Rick Perry is part of the illegal immigration problem."
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11/04/11 We know Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) says one thing on immigration and does another, but this is especially rich. In an article in The Hill about how the GOP is split over the issue of E-Verify, Senator Rubio said he supports the legislation "in concept." But, he's an actual sponsor of the Senate E-Verify Bill.
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11/04/11 A scathing editorial in today's Washington Post blasts Alabama's new anti-immigrant law - and the failure of Congress to find a path to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
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11/03/11 House Republican Jeff Duncan (SC) is just the latest in a long line of Republicans to say something horribly impolitic about immigrants, only to backtrack later. He readily joins the club as one of their most nonsensical members. Earlier this week, Duncan described the US border as “like having a house…taking the door off the [...]
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11/03/11 One year out from the 2012 election, we've released a report that the Republican Party's stance on immigration—and what it means for their candidates' ability to compete for Latino voters—is shaping up as one of the major storylines this election cycle. The report finds that as Republicans continue to embrace hard-right positions on immigration, the Party is distancing itself not only from the legacy of Ronald Reagan and other past Republican leaders, but also from Latino voters in numerous states that are shaping up to be 2012 battlegrounds.
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11/03/11 Very powerful op-ed in The Hill, written by Professor Randall McGuire about the Border Patrol titled, Border Patrol abuses of human rights must be stopped. McGuire cuts right to the problem with Border Patrol. It's a "rogue agency."
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11/02/11 We know that deportations can have a destructive impact on immigrant families. A new report from the Applied Research Center, Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, found that over 5,000 children of deported parents are now stuck in the foster care system.
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11/02/11 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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