Immigrant children who have been illegally barred from enrolling in high school in Collier County, Florida, should be allowed to begin classes during the upcoming school year while a federal lawsuit filed on their behalf makes its way through court, according to a motion filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center today.
ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ lawsuit continues on behalf of other students.
South Carolina discriminates against aspiring college students by requiring U.S. citizens living there to pay the out-of-state tuition rate when they are unable to prove their parents’ lawful immigration status – an unconstitutional policy that can nearly triple the cost of college.
A Wayne Farms poultry processing plant in Alabama has been fined more than $100,000 as a result of a federal complaint by the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ that described how workers were forced to endure unsafe and abusive conditions.Â
Sweeping new regulations for poultry plants announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today will leave processing lines running at their current speeds – a decision that spares workers from an increase but still forces them to endure the current, dangerously fast pace.
A federal judge has ruled that a case against two employees of Singing River Hospital and a state child welfare caseworker accused of unjustly separating a newborn baby from her mother may proceed – denying the defendants’ attempt to claim immunity for their actions.
Major provisions of South Carolina’s vicious anti-immigrant law will be permanently blocked as part of a settlement announced today.
A star high school student discovered that a discriminatory anti-immigrant policy would derail his college dreams. But with the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s intervention, his plans are back on track.
A federal district court today temporarily blocked major parts of South Carolina’s anti-immigrant law as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies challenging the law as unconstitutional.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights groups asked a federal judge today to block South Carolina’s anti-immigrant law from taking effect on Jan. 1 because it is unconstitutional, interferes with federal laws and would cause great harm in the state.
