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.
Oct 30, 2011
Immigration Crackdown: Alabama Immigration Battle Mirrors Civil Rights Era
AP/Fox News Latino: "The nation's strictest immigration law has resurrected ugly images from Alabama's days as the battleground state for civil rights. ... (It's) the case that's likely to be the first sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court ... and Alabama's jump to the forefront says as much about the country's evolving demographics as it does the nation's collective memory of the state's sometimes violent path to desegregation." read more
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