Is This Alabama? Her Citizens Speak Out On HB-56

Posted on February 17, 2012 by scjustice

After the Alabama legislature passed its Arizona-on-steroids anti-immigrant law last June, Hollywood’s Chris Weitz, whose directing credits include About a Boy and The Golden Compass, took his camera down there to ask the locals, “Is this Alabama?“ Weitz’s camera captured some ugliness, but it also found the good people of Alabama denouncing their state’s major [...]

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AZ-Copycat Laws Threaten Local Farmers, Crops

Posted on January 18, 2012 by scjustice

South Carolina peaches, they’re meant to be eaten. It looks like farmers have woken up to the threat that “show me your papers” legislation poses to their livelihoods. Case in point: In a recent article decrying the effects of state-level anti-immigrant laws on fruit and vegetable growing, Southeastern Farm Press described Alabama, Georgia and South [...]

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Grassroots Groups Rally Behind Immigrant Neighbors

Posted on December 29, 2011 by scjustice

The American Prospect has an article out this week highlighting a nationwide grassroots movement that is welcoming immigrants into communities, promoting tolerance, unity and their new neighbors’ contributions. The article describes it as a “quiet backlash” to the passage of harsh, unconstitutional anti-immigrant laws. While South Carolina’s advocates of decency and civil rights have won [...]

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Ala.’s Anti-Immigrant Forces Take Another Legal Whipping

Posted on December 13, 2011 by scjustice

A federal judge in Alabama has blocked another provision of that state’s unconstitutional anti-immigrant law. This one would prohibit local and state agencies from transacting business, such as the collection of property taxes, with undocumented immigrants. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s legal director Mary Bauer has dubbed the ruling “a nail in the coffin” of [...]

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Supreme Court To Rule On States’ Anti-Immigrant Laws

Posted on December 12, 2011 by scjustice

From The Associated Press: By MARK SHERMAN Dec. 12, 2011 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona’s controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that blocked several tough provisions in the Arizona law. One of those requires that police, while enforcing other [...]

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Editorial: Wheels Coming Off Ala.’s Anti-Immigrant Law

Posted on December 9, 2011 by scjustice

From The Anniston Star: By The Anniston Star Editorial Board Dec 09, 2011 This week began with Gov. Robert Bentley expressing concern that Alabama’s draconian illegal-immigration law could hurt recruitment of foreign industries. This was quite an admission from the man who supported the bill from the time it was in the Legislature until he [...]

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Feds Tug On Alabama Cops’ Purse Strings

Posted on December 8, 2011 by scjustice

  From Talking Points Memo: By Ryan J. Reilly December 6, 2011   The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has taken the unusual step of warning 156 local law enforcement agencies in Alabama that they’ll lose their federal funding if they don’t comply with federal civil rights laws when enforcing the state’s harsh immigration law. [...]

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State Legislatures Screwing Up The Farming Business

Posted on December 8, 2011 by scjustice

From Farm Press Blog: By Paul Hollis Dec. 2, 2011 With the issue of migrant farm labor hitting a fever-pitch in the Southeast — especially in states like Alabama and Georgia — it might be a good time to take a step back and consider the contributions of immigrants to American agriculture. In a recent [...]

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This Week In Immigration News

Posted on December 2, 2011 by scjustice

From Immigration Impact: “Anchor Baby” Added to New American Heritage Dictionary The degree to which the immigration debate has coarsened over the last few years is no more evident than in the pages of the recently released fifth edition of the New American Heritage Dictionary. Among the new entries is the term “anchor baby.” You [...]

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Another Alabama Anti-Immigration Law Screwup

Posted on December 1, 2011 by scjustice

From The Anniston Star: By Patrick McCreless pmccreless@annistonstar.com Nov. 30, 2011 A Japanese worker at the Honda plant in Lincoln recently received a citation for allegedly violating Alabama’s immigration law, the company said Wednesday. It was the second such incident to occur to an Alabama automotive plant employee in less than two weeks. Ted Pratt, [...]

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