By Ingrid Chapman, crossposted from Justice Roars. I arrived in Alabama 2 days before HB 56 went into effect with the original plan of being here for 2 weeks. That turned into 3 months. I have just returned for 6 more months to work with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
Yesterday, a crowd of about 3,000 - 4,000 crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; Today, the Civil Rights activists continue on a week-long, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. These marchers, some of them veterans of the original 1965 march for voting rights that took the same route, are not just commemorat
A year ago, Orlando Rosa was broadcasting music and setting up on-air talent for La Jefa, the largest Spanish-language radio station in Alabama. Then, in June, Governor Robert Bentley signed into law HB 56, on paper the strictest state law for criminalizing undocumented immigrants.
By Hannah Adams, crossposted from The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center Blog. A little over four months ago a federal judge upheld most parts of the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law to date- Alabama’s infamous House Bill 56 (HB 56).
By Elon James White, originally published on Colorlines. Recently I was invited to be a part of a delegation of labor leaders heading down to Alabama to speak out against one of the worst immigration laws in the country
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