With the recent decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade our nation’s AAA bond rating, the chaotic gyrations of the stock market, and the imminent possibility of a double dip recession, it’s difficult to find a single story that embodies the totality of the economic and fiscal problems we’re currently facing as a country....
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Yesterday saw another setback to supporters of immigration enforcement, this time in the state of Georgia. A federal judge has enjoined several key parts of a law we’ve discussed on American Rattlesnake previously. Modeled to a certain extent on Arizona’s landmark immigration law, SB 1070, the Georgia law would have allowed law enforcement officials to determine the...
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One of the central points of focus for the illegal immigration debate recently has been the use by employers of the federal government’s E-Verify system for checking the immigration status of potential or existing employees. Now Lamar Smith, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced a bill, H.R. 2164, which purports to mandate E-Verify...
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The assault against Secure Communities continues apace, as we learned yesterday from the Los Angeles Times. In a lopsided vote, the Los Angeles City Council decided to make participation in this successful immigration enforcement program purely voluntary; an idea that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has already scotched, at least rhetorically.
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I just received an e-mail from Americans for Legal Immigration PAC that informed me of an important vote the North Carolina General Assembly will take up in a just a few hours. As I’ve alluded to recently on this site, the recent affirmation of Arizona’s E-Verify law by the Supreme Court has spurred numerous...
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Good news comes to us by way of Numbers USA, which gives us a brief recap of what’s been happening in Alabama, which has just enacted a tough new immigration enforcement measure. It looks like the recent Chamber of Commerce vs. Whiting decision affirming Arizona’s E-Verify law has encouraged other states to take proactive...
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Conversely, you could say that the Chamber of Commerce and ACLU have lost, and lost big-time. Overall, it was a very good day for the Supreme Court of the United States, or as law nerds like to call it, SCOTUS. However, it was an even better day for Arizonans, and for those of us...
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Even though it seems like we have nothing to report these days but discouraging news, e.g. the continuing indifference of the administration and large swathes of Congress to enforcing immigration laws, the mounting body count along our southern border, and the lack of real discussion of immigration limitation and reform among public officials, there...
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Update: My good friend was also at at the May Day events and has some fantastic video footage, which you can find at The Silent Majority No More. The rest of her coverage can be found at her website as well. More video from the day’s festivities can be found on Youtube. As promised, today I...
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In news that shouldn’t surprise anyone, we learned yesterday that the federal government is widening its probe into the dubious hiring practices of Chipotle Mexican Grill. The two Reuters stories I’ve linked to are worth reading in their entirety.
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