It is clear to see that Republican Sen. Scott Beason will do whatever it takes to eradicate illegal immigration from Alabama.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.30.2012
WASHINGTON -- The Service Employees International Union continued its fight against Alabama immigration law HB 56 on Monday by filing a complaint with...
Pamela H. Long | Posted 04.23.2012
Instead of embracing tolerance and human rights, we once again slinked back into the bog of bigotry.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- Alabama Republican lawmakers announced a bill last week that would revise the state's immigration law. Opponents of the law aren't impre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.06.2012
WASHINGTON -- Alabama lawmakers took the first step Thursday toward amending -- but not repealing -- the state's contested immigration law. Republ...
Voto Latino | Posted 04.05.2012
Last week, I was in Alabama for a work assignment and to my surprise it was such an eye-opening and heart-wrenching experience.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- A top officer with Daimler Motor Company told opponents of Alabama's immigration law Wednesday that the corporation will not publicly ca...
Wade Henderson, Esq. | Posted 05.16.2012
Hyundai, speak out against human rights violations. Money talks, and in Alabama, and until now, your money has been silent.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.16.2012
South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai, which has large plants in Alabama, hasn't responded publicly to the state's extreme immigration law -- yet. Civ...
Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.09.2012
A decision by a federal appeals court to block two major provisions of Alabama's immigrant law is a significant victory not just for immigrants but for the rights of all residents of Alabama.
Gerry Hudson | Posted 05.09.2012
It is imperative that we not only understand the fight against restrictive voter ID laws , but that we also acknowledge that racist, anti-immigration laws, like Alabama's HB56, is an assault on the very values that civil rights marchers stood for nearly 50 years ago.
AP | Posted 05.08.2012
ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 02.19.2012
WASHINGTON -- Not all Alabamians support the state's HB 56 immigration law, explicitly designed to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state. In ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 02.14.2012
Hundreds packed the Alabama Statehouse courtyard on Tuesday to rally against the state's tough immigration law, with organizers saying they chose to s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Staver | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON -- Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them pu...
Grace Meng | Posted 03.26.2012
If any candidate continues to believe enforcement-only immigration legislation is feasible or fair, he only has to look at Alabama, which essentially has put a plan of attrition into effect.
Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 03.20.2012
The current system fails more than just immigrants seeking opportunity and fair treatment. It fails all of us by refusing to embrace a future that welcomes diversity and equal access to the American dream.
Posted 01.18.2012
On Monday's The Colbert Report, Scott Douglas, the Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, called Latinos the "new Negro." Making refe...
Posted 01.12.2012
In a move similar to ones chided by federal courts in Alabama and Arizona, one Kansas City area lawmaker has proposed a bill that would require Missou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 01.12.2012
WASHINGTON -- GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced on Wednesday an endorsement from Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who helped wr...
AP | Phillip Rawls | Posted 12.08.2011
By PHILLIP RAWLS, ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation's toughest law against undocumented immigr...
Kevin R. Johnson | Posted 02.05.2012
The Alabama law is startling in terms of its civil rights consequences to Latinos and immigrants, including increasing the likelihood of racial profiling, denying access to public education, and the like.
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 01.31.2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After confusion and misgivings from some police about how to enforce Alabama's new immigration crackdown, the state is now re...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 01.30.2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A Japanese man temporarily working at Honda's car factory in east Alabama became the second foreign auto worker charged under...
Think Progress | Amanda Peterson Beadle | Posted 11.22.2011
Mercedes opened its first American manufacturing plant in Vance, Alabama in 1993, spurring a trend of foreign car makers and suppliers opening factori...
Jessica Hoppe | Posted 05.09.2012