Apr 02
By Joan Friedland, Senior Advisor to the National Immigration Law Center New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has failed in her fourth attempt to persuade the New Mexico legislature to repeal the state’s driver’s license law. The law, in effect since 2003, provides access to driver’s licenses for eligible applicants, regardless of their immigration status. This …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/02/despite-governors-best-efforts-new-mexico-keeps-drivers-licenses-for-undocumented/
Mar 01
As Congress begins to debate how to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws on the federal level, state governors who previously staked out anti-immigrant positions are quieter. And in a change from previous years, few measures that mimic provisions of Arizona’s SB-1070 have been proposed in state legislatures. That’s not to say there isn’t still some …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/01/immigration-policy-in-the-states-a-roundup/
Jan 17
Nearly five months ago, a federal appeals court in Atlanta issued a set of opinions that invalidated numerous provisions of Alabama HB 56, the most pernicious state immigration law in the country. After Alabama asked the full court to reconsider its rulings, the active judges unanimously rejected its request. Out of other legal options, the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/01/17/out-of-legal-options-alabama-files-petition-at-supreme-court/
Dec 14
At a time when state budget deficits are growing larger, you might think that state governments would avoid imposing costly, unfunded mandates on themselves. Yet that is exactly what states are doing when they pass laws that transform their police officers into proxy immigration agents. As officers spend more of their scarce resources and time …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/12/14/colorado-digs-itself-into-a-fiscal-hole-in-the-name-of-immigration-enforcement/
Oct 10
Activists in Kansas are mounting a campaign to recall the state’s Secretary of State and notorious immigration restrictionist Kris Kobach. According to the Associated Press, there is a movement to collect signatures to recall him. For months, several groups have held rallies and press conferences, accusing Kobach of spending too much time working on his …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/10/10/kansans-push-for-kobach-recall/
Sep 24
The American agricultural industry is facing billions of dollars in losses due to labor shortages resulting from recent anti-immigrant laws passed in various states around the country. The American farming industry is heavily dependent on undocumented workers, and according to a recent article in Time Magazine, has had an extremely difficult time replacing those who …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/09/24/agriculture-industry-harmed-by-restrictive-state-immigration-laws/
Aug 21
As with the Supreme Court’s recent opinion on Arizona SB 1070, initial media coverage portrayed the (technically) mixed rulings on the Alabama and Georgia immigration laws as a split decision. But do not be fooled: yesterday’s opinions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit represent a sweeping win for the immigrants’ rights …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/08/21/alabama-ruling-yet-another-rebuke-to-state-immigration-laws/
Aug 08
The National Conference on State Legislatures (NCSL) released its annual review of immigration legislation moving in statehouses around the country. NCSL found a significant, 40% decrease in the introduction of immigration legislation and a 20% decrease in states enacting immigration-related laws when compared to 2011. This decline is the first in years, and is reportedly …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/08/08/states-apply-brakes-on-immigration-legislation-in-2012/
Jul 09
Less than three weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Arizona v. United States—which struck down three provisions of SB 1070 and invited future challenges to a fourth—civil rights groups are back in court resuming their challenges to copycat laws in other states. Going forward, the lawsuits will focus more on how to interpret …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/07/09/civil-rights-groups-resume-legal-challenge-to-alabamas-immigration-law/
Apr 30
Proponents of “attrition through enforcement” would have you believe that, given the right conditions, unauthorized immigrants will choose to leave the U.S. and return to their home countries. The Myth of Self Deportation, by Alexandra Filindra, questions the assumptions behind the attrition strategy and concludes that self-deportation is not rational because unauthorized immigrants have invested …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/30/study-shows-self-deportation-is-irrational-behavior-and-a-false-premise/
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