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More Anti-Immigrant Ordinances

June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AS, Immigration, Supreme Court

This week, Fremont, Nebraska residents passed a local anti-immigrant measure that aims to ban hiring or renting to “illegal immigrants.” Unlike the laws passed in Hazleton, Pennsylvania and Farmers Branch, Texas, this law was enacted by voter referendum. Otherwise, though, the law is pretty similar to its predecessors — it requires local employers to use [...]

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See? It says so right there!

May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized

This post by Monica Potts shows that cries from supporters of Arizona’s abhorrent immigration law that the law’s opponents haven’t even read the bill aren’t quite the smoking gun they’re presented as (regardless of what Jan Brewer’s cheap Kermit rip-off might say.)   However, the post does not address the obnoxious argument that’s usually paired [...]

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Today’s Reason to be Grateful

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Immigration, Politics

There are lots of reasons to be frustrated with the first 16 months of Barack Obama’s presidency. Continuation of many of the Bush anti-terrorism policies.  Escalating the war in Afghanistan.  Dragging his feet on gay rights.  Failing to put an unabashed, bleeding heart liberal on the Supreme Court.
But it’s important to step back, take a [...]

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Which One is Arizona Again?

April 29th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration

I wholeheartedly support the decisions of state and local governments to boycott Arizona in order to protest that state’s new  anti-immigrant law. Unfortunately, after reviewing Gawker’s helpful guide to the boycott, I realized I have unknowingly been on a lifelong boycott of Arizona and all things Arizonan. The only thing about boycotting Arizona that really [...]

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Happy Bigotry Day

April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Immigration, Politics

Happy Bigotry Day, everyone! Today we should all follow in the lead of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and justifiably call someone a bigot.
In case you haven’t heard, Brown got caught calling a British woman named Gillian Duffy a bigot when he didn’t realize his microphone was still on.
Several things are funny/infuriating about this story. [...]

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Jan Brewer, Everyone

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics

Here’s a little treat to get you through this lonely time without us – Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, stumbling all over herself in defense of Arizona’s new immigration bill:
Q: What does an illegal immigrant look like?
A: [Awkwardly laughs.] I do not know. I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. I can [...]

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Hiatus News

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law School

For those couple of LTMF fans who have been missing us for the past few weeks, I offer by way of explanation that this is finals season for us here at LTMF — AR and I are getting ready to graduate from law school. It is painful to be out of touch, especially at a [...]

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Another Dumb Birther Argument

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics, Supreme Court

George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week called “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship.”  How anyone got past that atrocious title to actually read the thing is beyond me.  The article should more accurately be titled, “Every year someone makes the same argument about immigrant babies and [...]

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And Now For Some Genuinely Good News

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court

No amount of oil drilling news can ruin my good mood today, not when there are so many shockingly reasonable federal court decisions being announced. The first, Padilla v. Kentucky, finds that bad legal advice about the immigration consequences of a criminal guilty plea constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel. This is huge. As one immigrants’ [...]

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No More Arpaio SantaCake (Almost)!

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice

The Houson Chronicle reports that the Salvation Army in Houston has reversed its policy of requiring needy children to present Social Security numbers in order to receive gifts.  More good news: it was neither their intention to offend anyone nor to give the impression they were discriminating against people without Social Security numbers.  Thank goodness!  [...]

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