What’s the difference? Other than a constant nagging fear of being deported, not much. Oprah.com has a piece from the April 2012 edition of O Magazine that provides a lot of insight into how and why one woman found her family living illegally in the United States. With no job prospects in Mexico, her husband [...]
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It all started in 1790, with the Naturalization Act, which mainly required immigrants to be “free white” people of “good moral character.” From there, HuffPo counts down the top ten immigration laws over the course of US history including the 14th Amendment, two laws passed in the late 1800′s designed specifically to exclude Asian and [...]
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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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After a record setting day in 5 points in Columbia, SC, A United SC would like to share a column from the New York Times. In an excellent piece, Peter Behrens reminds us that the Latino immigrants of today are more like the Irish immigrants of yesterday than different. They face the same discrimination and [...]
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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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