10 House Dems Head to AL Monday For Immigration Hearing

A Statement From The Office of Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and nine other House Democrats are traveling to Alabama on Monday for an ad hoc hearing […]

By Dustin Mendus It all began when the kids stopped showing up to school. Hundreds of Latino kids disappeared from school when Alabama began enforcing it’s brutal immigration law, HB […]

A total of 13 pople were arrested yesterday in Montgomery, Alabama after a protest in front of the Alabama State Legislature. The undocumented students, their parents and supporters were protesting […]

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

Thirty-six days after the implementation of Alabama’s HB 56, immigrants have fled jobs in record numbers, Latino children are still absent from school and crops of Alabama’s $5.5 billion-agricultural industry […]

South Carolina is up next, they’re calling it Alabama-lite. Think of it as the next falling domino in the contrived line of  state-level immigration laws. The Alabama  law has become the high standard […]

Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez, a staunch pro-immigrant advocate, organized other House Democrats this week to make a trek to Alabama in protest of that state’s harsh anti-immigrant law. According to […]

That’s right, it’s over.  Those chubby-fingered, sticky-faced little charlatans have reigned for far too long, and, like Gaddafi, their golden age is behind them. Need Proof? Read on. There was […]

Turns out that Alabama’s law seems to be pretty targeted to Latinos after all, at least non-Latino immigrants do not appear to be afraid. Some of Alabama’s Vietnamese, Korean and […]

The federal government’s official position on Alabama’s immigration law seems to be to let the state wallow in it’s own mess. I don’t think the feds even have plans for an after-mess […]