Teenager Missing Since 2010 Was Accidentally Deported To Colombia
A truly bizarre story from Dallas that, quite honestly, raises questions about the entire immigration system: DALLAS – “It’s very frustrating,” Lorene Turner said. She has spent hours on Facebook trying to find her granddaughter, Jakadrien. “Once I get home I am up until 3 or 4 in the morning searching and looking,” Turner said. [...]
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Accused Of Unfairly Targeting Hispanics
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has released a harsh assessment of the practices of the Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriffs Department, which happens to be led by a man who has become something of a darling of the right: PHOENIX — In a harshly worded critique of the country’s best-known sheriff, the [...]
Supreme Court To Rule On Constitutionality Of Arizona Immigration Law
In the Spring of 2010, Arizona passed an immigration bill, that among other things, gave police in the state the duty to check on the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the United States illegally. The bill sparked controversy nationwide, as well as a negative reaction from the Hispanic groups, and even Republican [...]
Alabama Arrests Another Foreign Auto Executive
First, it was a German national working for Mercedes Benz was arrested under Alabama’s new immigration law, and now a Honda exec from Japan. Via the London Guardian: Alabama red-faced as second foreign car boss held under immigration law A judge has acted to put a Japanese employee of Honda Motor Company out of his [...]
An Observation about the DOJ Suit Against Utah’s Immigration Law
Over at ImmigrationProf blog, Kevin Johnson notes the following from the DOJ’s press release concerning the filing: the law’s mandates on law enforcement could lead to harassment and detention of foreign visitors and legal immigrants who are in the process of having their immigration status reviewed in federal proceedings and whom the federal government has [...]
Mitt Romney In 2007: Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants
In an obvious, and I must say well-played effort to push back against the criticism he’s getting over his immigration comments last night, the Newt Gingrich campaign is sending around this video of Mitt Romney in December 2007 where he appears to endorse the idea of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants: The Romney [...]
Alabama Police Arrest Mercedes Executive for not Having Proper ID
Via the AP: Mercedes plant manager arrested over Ala. immigration law Police say a German executive with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested under Alabama’s strict new law targeting illegal immigrants. Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson tells The Associated Press an officer stopped a rental vehicle for not having a tag on Wednesday. Anderson says [...]
Architect Of Arizona Immigration Law Defeated In Recall Election
Russell Pearce, the man behind Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 law which purported to empower the state with numerous powers to enforce Federal immigration laws, was defeated yesterday in a recall election: The Senate President of Arizona and author of the state’s hard-line laws against illegal immigration lost a recall election seen as a bellwether on [...]
Line of the Day (Farm Labor Edition)
“Turns out American who have chosen a life of crime don’t have quite the same work ethic as Guatemalans who walked through 500 miles of desert to feed their children”-Stephen Colbert on the failure of programs to use convicts to pick produce in Georgia and Alabama in the wake of harsh immigration laws. Who knew? [...]
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Alabama Immigration Law
A Federal Appeals Court has blocked some of the most controversial provisions of Alabama’s immigration law: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal appeals court in Atlanta temporarily blocked two provisions of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration enforcement law on Friday, but left much of it in effect as the state and the United States Justice Department continued to [...]
Line of the Day (AL Immigration Law Edition)
“Alabama needs insurance reform and better education and better jobs and oh, I don’t know, a hundred other things before we need a tough new immigration law that stresses out farmers, law enforcement, school officials, people in line at the DMV and everyone with a tan.”—J.D. Crowe, the Mobile Press-Register. Seriously, of the problems this [...]
Much of Alabama’s Immigration Law Upheld
Via the NYT: Alabama Wins in Ruling on Its Immigration Law The decision, by Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of Federal District Court in Birmingham, makes it much more likely that the fate of the recent flurry of state laws against illegal immigration will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. It also means that Alabama [...]
Who Could Have Seen this Coming? (Immigration Edition)
Via the AP: Farmers say Ala immigration law could cost crops Farmers in one of Alabama’s leading agricultural areas asked legislators Monday to make emergency changes to the state’s tough new law against illegal immigration, saying millions of dollars of crops are at risk in coming weeks because of a sudden lack of hands for [...]
Ronald Reagan On Immigration: “I Believe In The Idea Of Amnesty”
Following up on the clip from a 1980 Reagan/Bush debate that Alex Knapp posted last night, here’s more of Ronald Reagan on immigration from the second 1984 Presidential Debate with Walter Mondale: Two years later, Congress passed and Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which included a provision that granted amnesty to any [...]
Enforcing Immigration Laws
Greg Weeks notes: The Obama administration has enforced immigration laws more than any past administration, Republican or Democratic. You may think that to be positive or negative, but it is empirically true. It is therefore unfortunate that the myth of non-enforcement persists, and that this myth becomes an unsubstantiated rationale for congressional refusal to pursue [...]
Federal Judge Puts Hold On Alabama Immigration Law
Mirroring what Federal Judges in Arizona and Georgia have done, a Federal Judge in Alabama has issued a stay on Alabama’s new immigration law, which may have decried as draconian: Alabama’s tough new immigration law was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge on Monday. Alabama’s toughest-in-the-nation crackdown had originally been set to take [...]
George Will: Deporting All Illegal Immigrants Will Never Happen
During the same This Week appearance that included the fascinating discussion on the Constitution that James Joyner wrote about earlier, George Will also spoke some common sense on the issue of immigration, and GOP intransigence over the issue: “To deport them would require not just police measures we would never tolerate. The majority have been [...]
Alabama’s New Immigration Law Meets The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Just as Georgia’s new immigration law caused a crisis in the farm industry as migrant workers fled the state, a similar statute in Alabama is having a similar impact in Alabama: When Tuscaloosa, Alabama, begins rebuilding more than 7,200 homes and businesses leveled by an April 27 tornado, it may find itself missing a workforce [...]
Federal Court Blocks Part of Georgia’s Immigration Law
Via the AP: Judge blocks parts of Ga. immigration law A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked parts of Georgia’s strict new law targeting illegal immigration from taking effect, including a provision that authorizes police to check the immigration status of suspects without proper identification and to detain illegal immigrants. Georgia’s became the latest in [...]
AZ Looks to SCOTUS on SB1070
First, if you understood the headline, then you, too, are a political junkie. Second, the link (via CNN): Arizona takes controversial immigration law to Supreme Court. Last month, a three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Justice Department and against Brewer, who signed SB 1070 into law last year. Brewer [...]
























