After the federal government failed to release records under the Freedom of Information Act that would shed light on controversial – and potentially unconstitutional – immigration raids in 2016 that took more than 100 women and children from their homes and placed them in a Texas detention...
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Georgia is no longer illegally denying driver’s licenses to thousands of immigrants based on their past – rather than current – immigration status under a settlement agreement announced today to resolve a federal lawsuit by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and Atlanta immigration attorney Justin W. Chaney.
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The following statement regarding a federal judge’s dismissal of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s lawsuit over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state is by Naomi Tsu, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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Foreign college students who paid thousands of dollars to spend their summer living and working in the United States as part of a federal cultural exchange program were exploited by a labor broker who used the program as a source of cheap labor for businesses in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, according to a federal complaint filed by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
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A poultry processing company in Guntersville, Alabama, ignored worker complaints about dangerous and unsanitary working conditions, ultimately firing two whistleblowers, according to ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ complaints filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
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A luxury golf resort in South Carolina will pay $2.3 million to resolve an ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ lawsuit filed on behalf of Jamaican guest workers who claimed they were systematically cheated out of their wages.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parental Arrivals programs is by Naomi Tsu, Southern Poverty Law Center deputy legal director.
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The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ has filed a federal safety complaint on behalf of a former worker at an Alabama poultry plant owned by Wayne Farms – the same company fined more than $100,000 by the federal government after an ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ complaint uncovered safety violations at a different Alabama plant.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center offered testimony to a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill today about the abuses and failures within the nation’s H-2B guest worker program.
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Less than a month after the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) filed suit over a state law that discriminated against naturalized citizens registering to vote, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed legislation repealing the law – effectively resolving the lawsuit.
