Alabama

05/14/2012
S.B. 1070 at the Supreme Court

Fighting Anti-Immigrant Laws…for Children and Families

By Abdi Soltani, ACLU of Northern California at 2:58pm
What do anti-immigrant laws have to do with children and youth? In my 8-year-old son Cyrus's Spanish immersion program at a Berkeley public school, there are ... Read More
05/08/2012
Anti-Immigrant Laws

"Estamos Unidos" …Against Discrimination and Anti-Immigrant Laws

By Lucia Hermo at 1:29pm
As I stepped off the plane from JFK to Oakland, I admit that I was a bit scared. Normally sitting behind a desk, I was about to embark on a ten-day journey across the ... Read More
05/03/2012
Abortion Legislation

Hello, Alabama? Can You Hear Us Now?

By Elissa Berger, Advocacy and Policy Counsel at 1:58pm
On the front lines of the war on women, the people of Alabama have a battle cry: Enough is Enough. Read More
04/24/2012
S.B. 1070 at the Supreme Court

Alabama’s Arizona Copycat: “Why Do You Think My Daughter Is Not From Here?”

I hate what is happening to my children, and I’m pretty sure to a lot of children out there. Read More
04/23/2012
S.B. 1070 at the Supreme Court

ACLU Joins in Briefing Members of Congress on the Implications of Arizona v. U.S.

By Laura W. Murphy, Washington Legislative Office at 5:19pm
Today we let federal lawmakers know that Arizona’s racial profiling law, S.B. 1070, is about much more than just the state of Arizona and its immigrants. ... Read More
03/15/2012
Juvenile Life Without Parole

Throwaway Kids?

By Tanya Greene, ACLU at 1:41pm
Next week the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in two historic cases. Incredibly, the cases — from Alabama, Miller v. Alabama, and Arkansas, ... Read More
03/09/2012
H.B. 56

Victory! Appeals Court Blocks Additional Provisions of H.B. 56, Alabama's Anti-Immigrant Law

By Cecillia Wang, Immigrants' Rights Project at 12:47pm
These provisions were intended "to attack every aspect" of Alabamians' lives and to expel them from the state. Read More
02/28/2012
H.B. 56

The Verdict is Out: Why States Are Already Shifting Away from Alabama and Arizona's Failed Anti-Immigrant Experiment

By Jonathan Blazer, ACLU at 5:43pm
In state after state, legislatures that had vowed to adopt sweeping new immigration restrictions are now taking pause. What happened? Read More
02/27/2012
H.B. 56

Alabama Under Siege: The Human Costs of H.B. 56

By Justin Cox, Immigrants' Rights Project at 4:17pm
Alabama's immigrant and Latino communities remain in a state of terror five months after some provisions of the law went into effect. Read More
01/17/2012
H.B. 56

ACLU Client Scott Douglas on The Colbert Report

By Elizabeth Beresford, ACLU at 5:21pm
Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert interviewed Scott Douglas III, executive director of the Greater Birmingham Ministries. Douglas is a plaintiff in ... Read More
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