Facing South: How Mississippi passed the country’s biggest crackdown on immigrant workers From: southernstudies.org
Tagged: immigrant rights, Mississippi, populationPosted on: April 24th, 2008
Over the last few years, a quiet but powerful alliance in Mississippi of African-American lawmakers, immigrant rights advocates and labor unions had successfully defeated a series of punitive bills aimed at the state’s fast-growing Latino and new immigrant population.
But last month, that string of victories came to an end. Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law a bill with the most far-reaching employer sanctions in the United States. “*
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