South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center joined with other interested organizations in filing an Amicus (friend of the court) brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down the Arizona law. Click to view Brief of Amici Curiae SC Appleseed joined with many of the same organizations in [...]
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As it turns out, there was a big giant loophole in South Carolina’s attempt to take the title of unfriendliest state for immigrants. South Carolina lawmakers must have seen stories about crops rotting in the fields in Alabama and Georgia, because as the Latin American Herald Tribune reports, South Carolina exempted farm labor from new [...]
Filed under: Arizona-copycat laws, immigrant community, Migrant Workers, Racism, S.B. 20, South Carolina | 1 Comment »
The National Immigration Law Center today announced that their continuing fight in Alabama succeeded in blocking enforcement of two more provisions of Alabama’s state immigration law. A US Court of Appeals ruled that one provision that made it illegal for elected officials to have any contact with undocumented immigrants and another that made contracts with [...]
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A new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of SC Appleseed’s partners in challenging South Carolina’s immigration law, found that Anti-Latino sentiment in Alabama is up in the wake of that state’s new immigration statute. Latino US Citizens and other folks who are legally present are being told to “Go back to Mexico.” [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Alabama, Arizona-copycat laws, Deportation, immigrant community, Racism, S.B. 20, South Carolina | Tagged: Christ Weitz, Civil Rights, Is this Alabama? | Leave a Comment »
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