The Montgomery Advertiser: "Just days before Alabama's strict immigration law is to go into effect, hundreds rallied in front of the state Capitol to protest the law, which makes it a state crime to be an undocumented alien in Alabama and for undocumented aliens to work in the state, among other provisions.
The organizer of the event, Edward Menefee, invoked the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous "I have a dream" speech, which he delivered 48 years ago Sunday. "(King) preached about the beloved community, where all people would be welcomed and all people would be treated with respect," Menefee said to the crowd."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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