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High court to look at state immigration laws (AP)

AP – The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona’s controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.

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High court could look at state immigration laws (AP)

AP – The Obama administration is waging a furious legal fight against a patchwork of state laws targeting illegal immigrants, and on Monday the Supreme Court has its first chance to jump into the fray.

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Russell Pearce, GOP Arizona state senator, author of controversial immigration law, voted out of office 

An Arizona Republican who made his reputation trying to boot illegal immigrants is now being given the boot himself — by voters.

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US asks court to halt Alabama’s immigration law (AP)

FILE - In a Sept. 29, 2011 file photo, sweet potato farmer Casey Smith, right, looks at a nearly empty sweet potato field that needs cultivating on his father's farm in Cullman, Ala. Normally, Smith hires some 25 laborers to help bring in his crop. Only five workers showed up on the day that Alabama's stringent immigration law took effect. A coalition of immigrant support groups has asked a federal appeals court to block enforcement of Alabama's new immigration law. The coalition said it filed the petition to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta several hours after the federal government filed its challenge. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)AP – The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to stop Alabama officials from enforcing a strict immigration law that has already driven Hispanic students from public schools and migrant workers from towns, warning that it opens the door to discrimination against even legal residents.


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US asks appeals court to halt Ala. immigration law (AP)

AP – The federal government asked an appeals court Friday to halt the Alabama immigration law considered by many the toughest in the U.S., saying it could have dire diplomatic consequences abroad, invites discrimination and merely forces illegal immigrants into neighboring states.

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Hispanic students in Alabama flee schools amid strict immigration law

Alabama’s tough new immigration law is causing an emigration of sorts by Hispanic students.

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Judge upholds key parts of Ala. immigration law (AP)

Gov. Robert Bentley talks with reporters outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.,  Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Bentley said a federal judge left most of the state's tough new immigration law in place, and it's still the strongest in the nation. Bentley says he will work with the state attorney general to appeal any parts of Blackburn's decision that struck down sections of the law. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)AP – A federal judge refused Wednesday to block key parts of a closely watched Alabama law that is considered the strictest state effort to clamp down on illegal immigration, including a measure that requires immigration checks of public school students.


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