04/27/12
This has been a historic week on immigration policy in an election year. Below is the America’s Voice take on some of the major political storylines surrounding immigration. If upheld, the Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona “show me your papers” provision would have a huge mobilizing effect on Latino voters. At the Supreme Court’s [...]
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04/27/12
One of our takeaways from yesterday’s Supreme Court hearing on Arizona v. United States is the serious disconnect between the discussion in the court room and how the law would actually play out on the ground. Incredibly, at the start of the federal government’s case, Chief Justice Roberts told Solicitor General Donald Verrilli that he [...]
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04/25/12
Today the Supreme Court heard the case Arizona v. United States, the federal government’s challenge to Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB 1070. The specific legal question at issue is whether four provisions of SB 1070 are pre-empted by the U.S. Constitution, which would mean that states such as Arizona cannot intrude on an area of federal [...]
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04/24/12
On Wednesday (tomorrow), the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Arizona, a debate that is focused on SB 1070’s constitutionality. In case you need a reminder, SB 1070 was an anti-immigrant law that set the precedent for others, such as Alabama’s notorious HB 56 and Georgia’s HB 87. Jeanne Butterfield, Eliseo [...]
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04/24/12
With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments for and against Arizona’s anti-immigration law on Wednesday, April 25th, we turn to another court for its ruling—the court of public opinion. In advance of tomorrow’s proceedings, America’s Voice Education Fund analyzed how immigration and SB 1070-type laws are play out among the American people. The results might be [...]
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04/23/12
This week, all eyes will once again be on SB 1070. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Arizona law and will soon decide whether to strike it down forever, or open the door to Arizona laws across the country. Exactly two years ago today, Governor Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s now-infamous “show [...]
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04/20/12
Um, what? Conservatives given a chance to war against women and immigrants—and deciding not to take it? It was last week that we first heard about a bill in Nebraska that extends prenatal care to undocumented women, thereby setting up a great clash between the issues of immigration and abortion. From Fox News Latino: The [...]
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04/20/12
While the Supreme Court is preparing to hear oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070 next week, Alabama is taking another look at HB 56, the local anti-immigrant law that was inspired by SB 1070. House representatives voted 64-34 yesterday to approve a tweak bill to the original HB 56 law, a half-measure that [...]
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04/20/12
Today, Mitt Romney heads to Arizona for multiple campaign events. Against the backdrop of next week’s U.S. Supreme Court argument in U.S. v Arizona, the Romney campaign yesterday attempted to distance the candidate from his past support of Arizona’s “show me your papers” immigration law. The stakes are high. Last weekend, at a closed door [...]
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04/20/12
Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Arizona, a case focused on the constitutionality of Arizona’s SB 1070 “show me your papers” immigration law. In addition to its implications for the continued spread of costly and Draconian state-based laws, the eventual ruling – likely in June 2012 – has [...]
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04/19/12
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Arizona v. United States. It’s the challenge to Arizona’s harsh “show me your papers” anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, brought by the Obama administration. As Jed Lewison writes today at DailyKos, Mitt Romney is a supporter of SB 1070, which he views as a “model” [...]
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04/19/12
Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments on Arizona’s arch-anti-immigrant law, SB 1070—an all-important, game-changing clash between the federal supremacy clause, the need for federal immigration reform, and the belief that states can and should pursue efforts to make undocumented immigrants self-deport. Activists, officials, lawyers, and lawmakers all over the nation have [...]
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04/18/12
Under fire for Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law and reeling after the recent loss of support from Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and Kraft Foods, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced today that they would begin focusing their efforts solely on economic issues, rather than social and cultural issues. The news that the group—a shadowy organization known [...]
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04/13/12
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law. Since then, there’s been a massive backlash against that harsh anti-immigrant legislation. Almost two years to the day Brewer signed the law, the constitutionality of SB 1070 will be argued before the United States Supreme Court. This will be one of the [...]
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04/10/12
Breaking news from Phoenix: Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his onetime deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, were stripped of their law licenses today as a disciplinary panel handed down the toughest sanctions possible for ethical violations in a case that attracted national interest. The panel also suspended Rachel Alexander, another Thomas deputy, from practicing law [...]
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04/09/12
The Kansas City Star today has an in-depth article on Kris Kobach, the sometimes-Kansas Secretary of State who is so passionately anti-immigrant that he works overtime in service of it. Kobach is Kansas Secretary of the State by day, a job which the Star notes “should be one of the quietest jobs in government.” But by [...]
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04/09/12
Tomorrow, leaders from the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ) are holding a press conference at 10 AM CT to speak about Alabama’s anti-immigrant law and to outline their plan of action to deal with proposed changes to HB 56. Check back in tomorrow for our report on the ACIJ presser. In the meantime, the reaction [...]
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04/06/12
Yesterday, the backers of Alabama's "show me your papers" anti-immigrant law introduced new legislation to tweak, but not repeal HB56. The following is a reaction to the new bill from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice.
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04/05/12
A bill proposing changes to Alabama's illegal immigration law has been introduced in the House. HB 658 by Rep Micky Hammon.
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04/05/12
Yesterday, I had the privilege of representing America's Voice Education Fund, alongside Renata Soto of National Council of La Raza and Fred Redmond of the United Steel Workers and the AFL-CIO, at the Daimler AG shareholder meeting with more than 6,000 attendees in Berlin, Germany.
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04/05/12
The Mississippi legislature's anti-immigrant bill, HB 488, is dead for the session, after failing to move in the State Senate. That led The Birmingham News' Joey Kennedy to write, "As bad as our Legislature is, I never thought I'd have to say that even Mississippi's Legislature is smarter than ours."
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Labor Groups Submit Complaint to UN’s International Labor Organization, Citing Problems With H.B. 56
04/04/12
Today, a delegation representing civil rights and labor leaders -- which includes our very own Patty Kupfer -- will be in attendence at the Mercedes-Benz annual shareholders' meeting in Berlin, Germany, to protest Daimler AG's silence on HB 56, Alabama's worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law.
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Labor Groups Submit Complaint to UN’s International Labor Organization, Citing Problems With H.B. 56
04/04/12
Today, a delegation representing civil rights and labor leaders -- which includes our very own Patty Kupfer -- will be in attendence at the Mercedes-Benz annual shareholders' meeting in Berlin, Germany, to protest Daimler AG's silence on HB 56, Alabama's worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law.
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04/03/12
It's been six months since Alabama began implementing its worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law HB 56. The Alabama state legislature has been in session since mid-February—and will only remain in session until mid-May—yet no legislative action has been taken to repeal the law.
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04/03/12
It's been six months since Alabama began implementing its worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law HB 56. The Alabama state legislature has been in session since mid-February—and will only remain in session until mid-May—yet no legislative action has been taken to repeal the law.
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04/02/12
Legislators in Alabama are gearing up to announce changes to H.B. 56. Rumor has it that they are interested in only making "tweaks" to the law, but as we clearly know: we need more than just tweaks
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04/02/12
Legislators in Alabama are gearing up to announce changes to H.B. 56. Rumor has it that they are interested in only making "tweaks" to the law, but as we clearly know: we need more than just tweaks
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