From Kathy O’Leary, Coordinator at Pax Christi NJ. As I sat down to write this blog post, about our upcoming protest on December 7th in Newark over the for-profit immigration detention contract, I was tempted to lead with statistics about the percentage of foreign born residents in Essex County. Then I remembered a quote from a book on racial [...]
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News: Tennessee Clergy Meet to Prevent Spread of Anti-Immigrant Laws to Their State
From Faith in the Public Life. Earlier this year, anti-immigration legislation in Alabama outraged civil rights and faith leaders in that state and around the country. Clergy such as William Willimon, Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church, took action against what he has dubbed “the meanest immigration Law in the nation” by [...]
Blog: Unintended Consequences: Alabama Families, Farmers and Lawmakers Struggle with New Immigration Law
Nora Skelly, LIRS Policy Associate, advocates for the protection of refugees, migrants in detention and families affected by our broken immigration system. Every morning, my walk to work takes me past the Newseum, which displays the front page of newspapers from all 50 states. I often take a moment to see what is important to [...]
News: “One Family, One Alabama” Campaign to Repeal Immigration HB56 Law Launches
The campaign Launch has been a huge success for One Family One Alabama. Read just a few of the news coming from the state and visit the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and their Facebook page. “One Family, One Alabama” Campaign to Repeal Immigration HB56 Law Launches A delegation of the Congress today will hold [...]
News: Alabama’s HB 56: “Harshest immigration law in the country”
U. W. Clemon marched in demonstrations alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., worked on desegregation in Alabama and became the state’s first African-American federal judge. He has seen great advancement of civil rights, but is very concerned about their present state. Watch his commentary on Alabama’s anti-immigrant law. Read more from U. W. Clemon here.
News: Arizona Topples Senate President Russell Pearce, SB 1070 Immigration Law Architect, in Historic Recall Vote
From the Huffington Post: MESA, AZ — In a stunning blow to the Tea Party movement, a huge turnout in Mesa’s conservative LD 18 overwhelmingly voted out Arizona’s hardline State Senate President Russell Pearce in a historic recall election today. As the self-proclaimed “Tea Party President,” Pearce’s national role as the figurehead for punitive immigration measures also [...]
Blog: An Open Letter to All Americans
Patricia McGovern Armour Foley, Alabama October 13th, 2011 An open letter to all Americans… I believe as many Americans do, that if you have a good education, many doors of the world can be opened for you. You see, I have lived it. I grew up in a poor but proud Irish-German family. It was [...]
News: Injustice Unleashed, HB 56 takes hold in Alabama
By Sue Weishar, Ph.D. from the Jesuit Social Research Institute. In the July JustSouth E-news we reported on Alabama’s new harsh anti-immigrant law, HB 56, and the Church’s response to that law. Today we provide an update on HB 56. On June 9, HB 56—called “the nation’s most merciless anti-immigrant legislation” by Alabama’s bishops—was signed into law by Alabama [...]
News: Justice Urges Alabama Schools’ Compliance on Immigrant Laws
From CNN: Washington (CNN) — The Justice Department Tuesday issued a letter to Alabama school districts to make sure they are abiding by federal law, which declares that a child may not be denied equal access to schools based on his or her immigration status. The letter from the Civil Rights Division asked each school [...]
News: Religion And Immigration: We Have Not Yet Begun To Love
From the Huffington Post: If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is. “God talk” becomes an opaque screen in which we see only reflections of ourselves — instead of any kind of true [...]
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