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Lawsuit Demands Transparency Between GA Law Enforcement and ICE
October 27, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
This week the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) and the ACLU of Georgia filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The suit seeks public records documenting the effects of Georgia’s increasing involvement in immigration enforcement, continue reading »
Immigration Reform- Bill to Bar Undocumented From College Dies in Georgia Legislature
March 31, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Activists hailed Friday the death of SB 458, a state Senate bill that sought to bar undocumented immigrants from Georgia's public universities. The bill also aimed to invalidate foreign passports as ID for obtaining public services. continue reading »
Latino Group Joins Re-Enactment of Selma to Montgomery March
March 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Thousands of people gather in Alabama each year to re-enact the Selma to Montgomery March that took place 47 years ago. This year protesters will have not just a memory but a new cause as they march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge. continue reading »
Georgia Mulls Banning Undocumented from Public Universities
February 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Activists and students in Georgia rallied here to urge legislators to reject SB 458, which if approved would prohibit access by undocumented immigrants to all of the state's public universities. continue reading »
Gutierrez to Meet with Napolitano to discuss Alabama and Deportations
December 3, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (IL-04) led a delegation of 11 Members of Congress to Birmingham, Alabama to investigate how the state's new restrictive immigration law is being implemented. An ad hoc hearing was held in Birmingham's City Council continue reading »
Georgia’s Anti-Immigration Law Hits Restaurant Industry
July 23, 2011 | by Americas Voice Online | Latino Daily News
Georgia is becoming a state that has food, but no immigrants to cook it, and is abundant in fruit, but has nobody to pick it. How extreme do things need to get before lawmakers open their eyes to the damage the state's new anti-immigration law, House Bill 87, is incurring? continue reading »
Mass March for Justice After Day without Immigrants in Georgia - Passage of HB 87 Leads to Outcry
July 2, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
After a state-wide ‘Day without Immigrants’ where people refused to go to work or shop and businesses shut their doors, thousands will march at Georgia’s capitol in a circuit that passes detention centers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices to demonstrate against HB 87 and call for a Georgia that honors its immigrant population. continue reading »
Georgia Farmers Face Labor Shortage, Gov. Says to Use Offenders on Probation
June 16, 2011 | by Associated Press (MSNBC) | Latino Daily News
Georgia governor has shared his proposal for easing the labor shortage issues faces farmers who say that the crackdown of undocumented workers has left them with fewer people willing to work in their fields. continue reading »
Convicted Criminals to Replace Undocumented Workers in Georgia
June 15, 2011 | by Politico | Latino Daily News
A large number of immigrants are fleeing Georgia as anti-immigrant legislation is set to be enacted. Gov. Nathan Deal has issued a statement that he is looking to fill vacant farm jobs with convicted criminals. continue reading »
GLAHR Condemns Governor Nathan Deal’s Signature of HB-87
May 14, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, the state’s leading grass roots immigrant rights organization, condemns Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision to sign HB 87 into law. continue reading »
Federal Authorities Warn School Districts: Do Not Ask Student, Parents About Immigration Status
May 11, 2011 | by Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Latino Daily News
Public schools across the country are being warned by the federal government that they are not to ask their students about their immigration status continue reading »
Napolitano Calls for Federal Immigration Reform- Not State Level Legislation
May 8, 2011 | by UPI | Latino Daily News
In a speech at the Atlanta Press Club Saturday, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the federal government, not states, should write immigration laws. continue reading »
Obama Criticizes Georgia’s Immigration Bill (VIDEO)
April 28, 2011 | by USA TODAY | Latino Daily News
President Obama has weighed in on the controversial Arizona style law that the Georgia Governor has said he intends to sign into law. continue reading »
Seven Undocumented Youth Protest, Risk Deportation in Georgia
April 9, 2011 | by Campus Progress | Latino Daily News
This week seven undocumented youth were arrested in an act of civil disobedience in Atlanta during a protest. The students oppose a change proposed by the Georgia Board of Regents who want to ban on undocumented students from the state’s top five public colleges and universities. continue reading »
Impending National Boycott of Georgia
April 8, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A national network of organizations instrumental in coordinating the boycott in Arizona after controversial anti-immigrant legislation passed there in 2009 has sent a letter to Governor Deal of Georgia “notifying [him] of efforts underway to organize a national boycott of Georgia, in the event that Georgia’s Arizona copycat legislation -- HB 87 and SB 40 -- should become law. “ continue reading »
Immigration Rally Ends in Arrests after Protesters Block Downtown Street
April 7, 2011 | by Fresh Loaf | Latino Daily News
More than 100 protesters led by seven young people brought to the United States as young children — and who were later arrested after blocking traffic in protest — marched through downtown Atlanta to raise awareness about undocumented youths. continue reading »
Petition on Anti-Immigrant Laws in GA! Please sign and spread!
April 2, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Please sign and pass the word!!!! We are at a critical moment and we need your help. Georgia - with a long history of oppression and an equally long history of fierce resistance - is on the brink of implementing Arizona-style anti-immigrant legislation. continue reading »
Elementary School Students Asked “What is an Illegal Alien?” Parents Shocked.
March 29, 2011 | by ABC 11 Alive | Latino Daily News
A third grade class in Georgia was recently asked “What is an illegal Alien?” as part of a class assignment. At Chesney Elementary School in Duluth, Georgia, people were shocked to learn that the third graders were being assigned work continue reading »
Farmers Worry About Proposed Immigration Legislation
February 22, 2011 | by Miami Herald | Latino Daily News
Farmers fear that if Georgia’s proposed immigration legislation comes into effect it will not only cost them time and money- it will put them out of business. continue reading »
THE Georgia Latino Alliance For Human Rights Condems HB 87 That Criminalizes Immigrants
February 9, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Racial Profiling Law in Georgia would damage economy and decrease safety. The Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), a grassroots organization that advocates for the human rights of Immigrants, opposes the implementation of “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011” HB 87. continue reading »
