04/02/12
Alabama's legislative session ends on May. So far, there has been no legislative action aimed at undoing the damage done by HB 56. So, a group of faith leaders are upping the ante. Tomorrow, they're going to unveil a "hard-hitting" tv ad urging the Legislature to act.
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Alabama Faith Leaders to “Unveil a Hard-Hitting, First-of-its-Kind TV Ad Campaign” Targeting H.B. 56
03/30/12
We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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03/30/12
We got an update on this year's Walk Against Fear. The marchers, who are following the 1966 path of civil rights pioneer James Meredith, will hold a Rally Against Racism on April 7th in Jackson, Mississippi.
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03/29/12
Sixty-eight House Congressmen joined forces today in a charge against Arizona's arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070, releasing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court which argues that immigration is a federal rather than a state priority.
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03/29/12
Sixty-eight House Congressmen joined forces today in a charge against Arizona's arch-anti-immigrant law SB 1070, releasing an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court which argues that immigration is a federal rather than a state priority.
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03/22/12
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test.
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03/22/12
Congressional Quarterly reports that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) is planning to introduce a dramatically stripped down version of the DREAM Act -- and it doesn't pass the legislative or political laugh test.
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03/19/12
Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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03/19/12
Alabama has just had two more provisions of its anti-immigrant law HB 56 blocked by a federal appeals court, but the state of Mississippi is apparently determined to make a similar mistake of its own.
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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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03/19/12
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
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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03/08/12
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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