MONTGOMERY, AL (AP) – Alabama’s strict new immigration law was touted by state legislators as a job creation bill. The idea was to force illegal workers out of jobs and open them up for legal residents. Early indications are the plan is backfiring. Few people are filling any of the vacancies that have been created [...]

“Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Saturday that part of his immigration policy would be to build an electrified fence on the country’s border with Mexico that could kill people trying to enter the country illegally. Mr. Cain added that he also would consider using military troops ‘with real guns and real bullets’ on the [...]

Conservatives jumped and screamed with Joy yesterday when a right-wing federal judge Sharon Blackburn — upheld most of the provisions of the racist, racial profiling immigration law in Alabama. The law, which, among other things, makes it illegal to knowingly give an undocumented immigrant a ride, also requires schools to check students’ immigration status. Alabama’s [...]

Currents’s Keith Olbermann labels — the College Republicans at UC Berkeley as WORSE; the heckler at President Obama’s fundraiser in Los Angeles as WORSER; and Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., as the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD for Sept. 27, 2011. Joe Arpaio is the sheriff of Maricopa County in “Apartheid” Arizona. A [...]

Hypocrite New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is using claims of terror threats to justify her immigrant bashing calls for proof of citizenship for the issuance of licenses in her state. Just last week she slammed supporters of the Dream Act, which would allow for the children of undocumented immigrants — here by no choice of their own — to become citizens if they go to college or serve our country in the armed forces. Gov. Martinez herself has admitted that her father’s father entered the U.S. “without documents,” which allowed her to be born as a U.S. citizen.