Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce, one of the most recognized architects of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, better known as S.B. 1070, lost a recall election Tuesday.
Many Republicans, including the governor of Alabama, are hesitating to publicly praise Alabama’s controversial immigration law, most of which remains in effect even after a federal circuit court blocked one of its more controversial provisions.
The new immigration enforcement law recently passed by the Alabama legislature and signed by Gov. Robert Bentley goes further than any state-level immigration enforcement law passed in the passed few years, including Arizona’s infamous SB 1070. One of the unprecedented provisions in the law makes it a crime to rent More…
Kris Kobach is the Kansas secretary of state and an attorney who is a pivotal player in the anti-immigration movement. He personally helped write much of the Alabama immigration law that was signed into law last week by Gov. Robert Bentley, a law recognized by both its proponents and opponents More…
Some good news for the estimated 25,000 undocumented students who receive in-state tuition in California: The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the state’s law allowing illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition rates at public universities.
California is one of 10 states that allow More…
The state of Arizona cannot require documents proving citizenship for new voter registration, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ruled that a 2004 law created by Proposition 200 that made voters show a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport before registering to vote violated federal law. More…
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce (R) is once again teaming up with Kris Kobach, an attorney running for Kansas Secretary of State, to write a new bill cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona. The two worked together to draft SB 1070, a much-contested anti-illegal immigration law requiring police to More…
- The ACLU and other civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit against federal authorities demanding they reform the immigration detention system to help mentally ill detainees. A Human Rights Watch report from July detailed problems for the mentally ill in immigration custody, who often spend More…
One of the lower-key workshops at the How to Take Back America conference was “How to Deal With Vote Fraud, the Census, and ACORN,” where Republican pols Kris Kobach and Ed Martin talked about the threat groups like ACORN posed to elections. (Kobach is running for Secretary of State in More…
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