THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Florida Senate Denies In-State Tuition for US Citizens
MIAMI – The Florida Senate Committee on Higher
Higher Education voted Tuesday afternoon against passing SB 1018, a bill that would guarantee in-state tuition eligibility for U.S. born citizens and legal permanent residents regardless of the immigration status of their parents. Because of a flaw in the existing law, when students who are still financially dependent [...]
Alabama’s Scott Douglas Inspires on Colbert Report
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
January 18, 2012
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Quoting Martin Luther King and deftly comparing the injustice of anti-immigrant legislation to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, rocked the Colbert Report during his national television debut on Monday. Applause filled the studio as Douglas, one of the leaders [...]
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Obama Plans Change in Immigration Rule on Waivers
Amy Taxin | Associated Press
January 6, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration proposed a rule change Friday to reduce the time that undocumented immigrant spouses and children are separated from their American relatives while they try to gain legal status in the United States. Currently, many undocumented immigrants must leave the country before they can ask [...]
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Texas Teen Deported to Colombia Headed Back to US
Juan Llorca | Associated Press
January 6, 2012
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 15-year-old Texas girl who was deported in May to South America after claiming to be an illegal immigrant was headed back to the United States on Friday, the U.S. State Department said. Jakadrien Lorece Turner left Colombia on Friday and was on her way [...]
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Abortion, Immigration Changes Among New 2012 Laws
Andrew Welsh-Huggins | Associated Press WASHINGTON
December 28, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Girls seeking abortions in New Hampshire must first tell their parents or a judge, employers in Alabama must verify new workers’ U.S. residency, and California students will be the first in the country to receive mandatory lessons about the contributions of gays and lesbians under the set [...]
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California to Stop Towing Unlicensed Drivers
Elliot Spagat | Associated Press
December 27, 2011
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ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Delfino Aldama was fixing a customer’s brakes this month when his smartphone chimed with a text message that tipped him to a police checkpoint more than an hour before officers began stopping motorists. The self-employed auto mechanic frantically called friends with the location and drove an [...]
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Calif. Schools Lead the Way Preparing Next Generation of Workers: Latinos
Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice News
December 22, 2011
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In 2011, for the first time, more Latino students than white students applied for admission to California State University’s 23 campuses. The numbers reflect not only the state’s growing Latino population, but also the impact of early education programs that are paying off with more Latinos graduating from high [...]
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High Court to Review Tough Arizona Immigration Law
Mark Sherman | Associated Press
December 13, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court stepped into the fight Monday over a tough Arizona law that requires local police to help enforce federal immigration laws — pushing the court deeper into hot, partisan issues of the 2012 election campaign. The court’s election-year docket now contains three politically charged disputes, [...]
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Alabama GOP Leaders have 2nd Thoughts on Immigration
Phillip Rawls | Associated Press
December 8, 2011
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans who pushed through the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigrants are having second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state’s prized Honda and Mercedes plants. The Republican attorney general is [...]
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an “extensive and thorough review” of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry. In the [...]
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