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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More Anti-Immigrant Ordinances
June 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AS, Immigration, Supreme Court
Tags: ACLU·anti-immigrant measures·anti-Latino measures·Ellis Island·Farmers Branch·Fremont·green card·Hazleton·illegal immigration·immigrants' rights·Immigration·immigration reform·Jim Crow·Latinos·local immigration enforcement·MALDEF·Nebraska·New York City·New York Times·Obama Administration·Pennsylvania·slavery·Texas·undocumented immigrants
Republicans and History
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics
Not content to lie about the present and the future, Republicans have stepped up efforts to rewrite history. In Texas, the right-wing elected officials charged with setting the state’s curriculum voted to ensure that Texas schoolchildren will learn, among other things, that the founders were Christian, there is no separation of church and state, Thomas [...]
Tags: Dick Armey·education·health care reform·history·McCarthy·Paul Broun·Republican idiocy·Republicans·right-wing hysteria·Steve King·Texas·Texas textbooks·The Great War of Yankee Aggression·Velvet Revolution
Turns Out, Local Police Sure Like Trying To Deport People
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Uncategorized
A new study by the Warren Institute just came out this month analyzing some extremely rare arrest data from Irving, Texas. The ACLU of Texas managed, by some wild miracle, to get arrest records for a 23-month period during which Irving started participating in the Criminal Alien Program (”CAP”). (Get it? ICE CAP? I know, [...]
Tags: ACLU·ACLU of Texas·CAP·ICE·Immigration·Irving Texas·local immigration enforcement·racial profiling·racism·Texas·Warren Institute
Pity the Fool
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Technology
For those of us no-name types, Twitter provides an outlet for the little germs of wisdom we come up with while drunk and/or pathetically lonely. For political types, however, Twitter is an easily mockable (and equally misguided) excuse for a soapbox. Josh Treviño (former Bush writer of some sort, who now runs a “strategies & [...]
Tags: 287(g)·ACLU·Border Patrol·civil liberties·conservative logic·idiocy·immigrant rights·Immigration·Josh Treviño·racial profiling·Texas·Twitter