10/11/11 The devastating impact of Alabama's new immigration law continues to generate heartbreaking stories, including more articles from the state over the weekend that caught our attention.
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10/11/11 Our colleague, Maribel Hastings, who has been in Alabama for the past week, wrote a very powerful column, which appeared in The Guardian over the weekend. It's definitely worth a read, highlighting the very human toll the new anti-immigrant law is having. The piece is titled, "Sweet home Alabama no more."
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10/07/11 News reports continue to highlight the devastating effects of Alabama's new immigration law on children, families, and entire industries. Meanwhile, supporters of the law, including anti-immigrant members of Congress and nativist organizations, seem quite comfortable with its destructive impact.
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10/07/11 Breaking news today on the legal front regarding the Alabama immigration law. The Department of Justice has asked the 11th Circuit to block implementation of the law: The federal government asked an appeals court on Friday to halt an Alabama immigration law considered by many as the toughest in the United States, saying it invites discrimination against foreign-born citizens and legal immigrants.
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10/07/11 You've probably heard that Alabama has begun implementing the harshest anti-immigrant law in the country. Their stated goal is to wipe every undocumented person from the state by putting such a squeeze on their communities that they are terrorized out. Police, public utilities companies and even elementary schools are required to report anyone they think may be undocumented.
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10/06/11 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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10/05/11 Another day, another series of articles highlighting the devastating effects of Alabama's immigration law. This self-inflicted wound is already wreaking havoc on the state's reputation and economic output.
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10/04/11 Though the 2012 Republican presidential field continues to tack hard right on immigration, the candidates have thus far stayed silent on the topic of Alabama's devastating new immigration law.
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10/03/11 After a disappointing verdict that left some of the worst provisions of Alabama's immigration law HB 56 in effect, the federal government is finding itself ever more deeply entangled in a complicated legal thicket as it tries to figure out how to keep the list of states with their own immigration laws from continuing to grow.
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10/03/11 Right in time for Halloween, Alabama has introduced an immigration monster that is literally scaring brown people from their homes while inflicting serious damage on the state's economy, leaving crops to rot in the fields.
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09/30/11 Very powerful post from Nick Valencia, a producer at CNN about his first-hand experience with anti-Latino racism recently in Atlanta. Nick is a third generation Mexican-American, who was recently told to "Go home" by a woman in Atlanta.
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09/30/11 One of the most egregious sections of the Alabama's horrific immigration law turns schools into immigration enforcement authorities. That's already having an impact on school kids.
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09/29/11 Yesterday, a Federal District Court Judge in Alabama delivered a decision that will have an immediate negative impact on immigrants and Latinos in that state. Judge Blackburn upheld some of the most egregious sections of Alabama's punitive and discriminatory.
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09/28/11 Major news from Alabama today. Federal District Court Judge Sharon Blackburn upheld several sections of Alabama's worst-in-the-nation immigration law today
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09/01/11 Bill Donahue (not to be confused with this guy, talk show host Phil Donahue), president of the Catholic League for Civil and Human Rights, has added his voice to the chorus of people who have come out against the Alabama immigration law.
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08/29/11 According to the Associated Press, Judge Blackburn has blocked enforcement of the Alabama's anti-immigrant law.
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08/29/11 In rural Alabama lies Cullman County, recognized as the "state's top agricultural community." David Palmer of The Cullman Times interviewed two farmers who express concern over Alabama's new anti-immigration law, which is scheduled to take effect in three days on September 1st. Both farmers come to the same consensus. To put it succinctly: this new law stinks.
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08/29/11 After a long, hot summer of protests and lawsuits, Alabama's tough new immigration law is scheduled to begin taking effect this week.
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08/02/11 The Department of Justice is putting a stop to the madness in Alabama, and is challenging the state's very anti-immigrant law, HB 56. From the press release yesterday: "Today's action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through a patchwork of state immigration laws," said Attorney General Eric Holder.
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07/21/11 People are reacting to Alabama's anti-immigrant bill, even though most parts of it won't take effect until September 1st. Undocumented immigrants are fleeing the state, and it's kind of very similar to what has already happened in Georgia.
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07/20/11 Alabama, which is 2.8 percent Latino, has a race problem again. Dark people are on the verge of taking over and like George Wallace and Bull Connor before them, today's politicos in Alabama aren't having it. "Anything short of shooting them," one politician has said from Alabama. From another: "Empty the clip and do what has to be done."
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07/14/11 Breaking news: a Republican has said something crazy. It must be Wednesday. Today, we're bringing you news from Alabama, where sitting U.S. Congressman Morris "Mo" Brooks (R-AL) is under fire for comments made to an Alabama television station, WHNT: "As your congressman on the House floor, I will do anything short of shooting [immigrants]."
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07/08/11 In an 11 am press conference in Montgomery, Alabama today, the American Civil Liberties Union, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Immigration Law Center, the Asian American Justice Center and the Asian Law Caucus have filed a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of HB 56, Alabama's anti-immigrant law that Alabama Gov. Robert J. Bentley signed into law.
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06/10/11 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) signed into law a new "papers, please" immigration bill that is a new low point for state-based immigration policy, an unfortunate reminder of Alabama and the South's tortured racial history, and another wake-up call to Washington to fix the broken immigration system.
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06/07/11 As if Arizona, with its SB 1070 law that cost $750 million and turned the state into a pariah wasn't enough. As if Georgia, with a new immigration law that criminalized all individuals who harbored or transported undocumented immigrants wasn't enough. As if Indiana's not one, but two new anti-immigration laws weren't enough.
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05/05/11 Teens in Alabama -- does the dance floor at prom seem a little emptier than usual this year? No, it's not just that awful DJ the principal booked. New immigration legislation would prohibit a whole category of classmates from attending.
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