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Alabama House Bill 56: The Immigrant Trespassing Law Explained
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsA new bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration is causing controversy in Alabama. House Bill 56, modeled on similarly controversial immigration legislation in Arizona, passed the Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee today. That means it will move on to debate by the full House of Representatives as early as Thursday. Here's the lowdown on HB 56, which prompted opposition rallies in Montgomery even before it reached the committee vote. It would require immigration status checks for workers The Montgomery Advertiser reports that HB 56 would mandate use of the federal ...
At Least 99 Hunger Strikers Hospitalized in Greece
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- More than a third of almost 300 North African immigrants refusing food and water to protest their lack of legal residency status have been rushed to a rash of hospitals here and in another Greek city, ratcheting fresh pressure on a government grappling with unstoppable flows of immigration and a faltering economy. Today, the 38th day of what some bill as the biggest hunger strike yet by immigrants in Europe, two young men from Tunisia were admitted to an Athens hospital with severe kidney and heart problems. Thanassis Stavrakis, AP An immigrant from North Africa ...
Most Americans Favor Citizenship for U.S.-Born Children of Illegal Immigrants
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile Americans still favor strong measures to crack down on illegal immigration, they oppose proposals to change the Constitution so that children born here to illegal immigrants would not automatically become citizens, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 2-7. Proposals to deny citizenship to what immigration hardliners call "anchor babies" born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant parents are unpopular with the public. Fifty-seven percent oppose changing the Constitution's 14th amendment that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil. Thirty-nine percent ...
Said Jaziri: 5 Facts About the Muslim Imam Caught After Illegally Crossing the Mexican Border
By David Knowles - AOL NewsWelcome to America! U.S. Border Patrol agents made an interesting discovery when they stopped a car 50 miles east of San Diego earlier this month. Inside the trunk of a BWM that was allegedly being driven by immigrant smugglers from Mexico, they found Said Jaziri, a Muslim cleric from Tunisia who was deported from Canada more than three years ago. Jaziri is believed to have hopped a border fence near Tecate, the Los Angeles Times reported, hiked through the desert and met up with the driver of the BMW at a place known as a rendezvous point for immigrant smugglers. So who is Said Jaziri? ...
Immigration Blues: Obama Scraps Full 'Virtual' Border Fence
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe "virtual" border fence isn't a virtual reality anymore. The $1 billion project to install sensors, radar, video and other technology as a way of spotting illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico to the United States has been scrapped by the Obama administration, Reuters and the Associated Press reported. The SBInet program, started in 2006 under the Bush administration, faced a series of cost overruns and missed deadlines. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says proven, commercially available technology -- aerial drones, thermal imaging and other surveillance systems -- ...
Foes of Birthright Citizenship Take Fight to State Legislatures
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The battle over immigration moved to a fresh front today as conservative state lawmakers offered up a new strategy to strip U.S. citizenship from babies born to those in the country illegally. Calling themselves State Legislators for Legal Immigration, officials from five states offered up "model legislation to correct the monumental misapplication of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Speaking at a packed news conference at the National Press Club that was disrupted several times by protesters, Republican legislators from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklahoma, South ...
The 14th Amendment: It's What's for Dinner
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyWhy's my favorite amendment so nervous? The 14th Amendment has always been on the hot seat. This Reconstruction-era amendment, adopted in 1868, gave blacks a path to citizenship, made the Bill of Rights applicable to states, and desegregated schools in the 1950s. Now, new controversies are brewing. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview recently published in California Lawyer that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee equal rights to women, gays and lesbians. In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody ...
Fate of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and DREAM Act To Be Decided Saturday
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAfter months of fits and starts, the Senate will vote Saturday on two controversial measures for the last time in the 111th Congress -- the DREAM Act and a bill repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell," the ban against gays serving openly in the military. The DREAM Act would give young illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if they complete two years of college or two years in the military. To qualify, they also must have come to the country before the age of 16 and have been in the United States longer than five years. It is a top priority for the Latino community this year since it became clear ...
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