03/19/12 Excellent news from the AFL-CIO Executive Council's winter meeting: They voiced strong support for immigration reform, including the DREAM Act -- and opposed Alabama's HB 56.
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03/16/12 For a few days now, we've been reporting on Wade Henderson's, Eliseo Medina's, and Dae Joong Yoon's adventures in South Korea. The three of them took a 14 hour flight to Seoul to attend a shareholder's meeting at Hyundai's headquarters, where they asked Hyundai's leadership to to take a stand against H.B. 56 in Alabama -- a state in which the company has a huge manufacturing plant.
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03/16/12 Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow.
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03/16/12 Whether on the campaign trail or in the state house, the heated rhetoric used by opponents of common sense immigration reform is setting a troubling tone that some Americans are deciding to follow.
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03/16/12 Kobach, a leading anti-immigrant voice, is the architect of Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56. But, he's got a day job as the Secretary of State for Kansas. And, people in Kansas are wondering if where his priorities lie: With the people of Kansas who pay his salary or with his anti-immigrant work.
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03/16/12 Kobach, a leading anti-immigrant voice, is the architect of Arizona's SB 1070 and Alabama's HB 56. But, he's got a day job as the Secretary of State for Kansas. And, people in Kansas are wondering if where his priorities lie: With the people of Kansas who pay his salary or with his anti-immigrant work.
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03/14/12 Hyundai's corporate headquarters may be in Seoul, but the company has enormous influence over Alabama politicians. And, Alabama's elected officials have been more than willing to open the state's coffers to Hyundai.
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03/14/12 As was true in other conservative states this year, exit polls from the Alabama and Mississippi primaries show that the Republican electorate is not all riled up about the immigration issue.
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03/13/12 I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights, and labor organizations sent a letter to these auto giants, and asked them to take a stand against H.B. 56. None of them have.
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03/13/12 I'm about to board a 14 hour flight to Seoul, South Korea, where a delegation of national civil and labor rights leaders will tell Hyundai shareholders that their company's decision to brush aside requests to help repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law is unacceptable. A few weeks ago, civil, human rights, and labor organizations sent a letter to these auto giants, and asked them to take a stand against H.B. 56. None of them have.
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03/13/12 Several weeks ago we posted an update to our "Boycott Hate" campaign: how we'd asked car companies like Honda and Hyundai to join us in the fight to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56, and how they basically told us it wasn't their problem. As a CNN report wrote after speaking to a Hyundai spokesman, "the company does not take a position on the immigration law one way or the other."
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03/13/12 The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics".
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03/13/12 The Alabama Republican primary is tonight, and the Center for American Progress has released its latest fact sheet entitled "The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alabama's Demographic Changes and Immigration Politics".
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03/12/12 On a pre-primary press call, the day before the contentious Alabama GOP primary, immigrant reform experts and leaders from religious and immigrant youth communities shed light on the devastating toll that Alabama's anti-immigration law (HB 56) has had on Latino families and warned of the role Alabama will play in the national elections this November.
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03/12/12 Lawrence Downes writes a thoughtful piece in the NYT, outlining the impact that Arizona's SB 1070 has had on immigration politics, noting that since SB 1070, 31 states have introduced legislation "imitating all or part of S.B. 1070."
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03/09/12 Yesterday, the 11th Circuit Court of appeals in Atlanta, Georgia blocked two more parts of the Alabama anti-immigrant law. Human Rights Watch noted the decision as "a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama." Their press release gives a little more background.
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03/09/12 The nation's eyes are turning towards Alabama, as a series of developments with the state's "show me your papers" anti-immigration law intersect with political dynamics surrounding the upcoming Republican presidential primary and general election.
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03/09/12 Earlier this week, we wrote about the Silicon Valley "Tech Titans" who were supporting DREAMers through E4FC.org. Today, there's another major player from the business world weighing in on the immigration issue: Howard Buffett.
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03/08/12 Breaking news from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning Alabama's atrocious anti-immigrant law. Two of the most punitive sections of that law have been blocked.
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03/08/12 The annual commemoration of the historic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama is taking on a new—albeit deeply related—cause today, as marchers highlight immigration, voting rights, and the need to repeal Alabama's anti-immigrant law HB 56.
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03/07/12 National labor leaders have come out in strong opposition to Alabama's HB 56 anti-immigrant law, noting the disturbing parallels between the law and Alabama's civil rights history, and calling on the state to repeal the law.
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03/06/12 Amidst a heated campaign to repeal Alabama's "worst in the nation" anti-immigrant law, this year is the first time that the issue of immigration has been officially incorporated into the historic Selma to Montgomery, AL march to commemorate our nation's struggle for civil and human rights.
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03/02/12 Alabama's unjust past will effectively be connected to its unjust present next week, when immigrant rights advocates in Alabama join forces with Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and a slate of other national groups on the Selma to Montgomery commemoration march.
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03/01/12 Today in Atlanta a three judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will hear arguments over Alabama's and Georgia's anti-immigration laws. In mid-April, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about Arizona's "show me your papers" law S.B. 1070, the precursor to the Alabama and Georgia anti-immigrant initiatives.
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03/01/12 Mother Jones has an excellent series exploring the different aspects of issue of the immigration issue. The first article, by Paul Reyes, is titled, "'It's Just Not Right': The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment." The magazine also exposes the inner-workings of those agitators in articles about Kris Kobach and another on the broader anti-immigrant network.
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02/29/12 Alabama made recruiting auto manufacturers a top economic priority for the state. And, it's worked. Mercedes, Honda and Hyundai have plants in the state. Now, those car industry companies that Alabama prizes are facing pressure to join the fight against HB 56
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02/29/12 When Alabama first began implementing its HB 56 anti-immigrant law, the Southern Law Poverty Center (SPLC) set up a hotline for Alabama immigrants and residents to call in with comments and complaints about how the law has affected them.
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