"When I think about Americans, I think of America as an idea, as much as a place. People who believe in freedom. People who want to pursue their own God-given talents in a system that rewards hard work and effort. People who abide by our basic values of our Constitution, our founding documents." [...]
"I’m sure that she ruled in accordance with what [Blackburn] views to be the law," U.W. Clemon, Alabama's first black federal judge who served on the bench for nearly 30 years, told me in an exclusive interview. "Unfortunately, in some very serious ways, she was mistaken." [...]
Today, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta blocked parts of HB 56, a controversial anti-immigrant law in Alabama. [...]
In interviews with journalists, media observers, policy experts and politicos from both sides of the aisle, an undeniable consensus emerged: the way the media largely frames the conversation around illegal immigration is incomplete and at times glaringly inaccurate, stuck in a simplistic, us-versus-them, black-or-white, conflict-driven narrative, often featuring the same voices making familiar arguments, almost always in the context of a campaign's (or a president's) political calculation. [...]
Press conference to announce the launch of a statewide initiative, “New York State Congregations in Solidarity with DREAMers,” as part of a national DREAM Sabbath initiative spearheaded by Senator Richard Durbin in order to increase support for the DREAM Act. [...]
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