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Private Prison Charges Inmates $5 A Minute For Phone Calls
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company, received $74 million of taxpayers’ money to run immigration detention centers. Their largest facility in Lumpkin,...
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Paper Suggests Mercedes Move To Missouri After Ala. Arrests Exec
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law —...
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Japanese Honda Employee Charged Under Alabama’s Immigration Law
A second foreign auto worker has been charged under HB 56, Alabama’s draconian immigration law. The Japanese Honda employee received a ticket at a routine roadblock police had set up, but he was not...
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New Study Shows Why Republicans Are Wrong About Privatizing Medicare
Republicans routinely claim that shrinking the government’s involvement in health care would eliminate waste, inefficiency and significantly lower health care costs. But during the debate over the...
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Alabama GOPer Pushes Bills Amending Anti-Immigrant Law
When Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) and Attorney General Luther Strange (R) both called for changes to the state’s anti-immigrant law last year, it was a hopeful sign that the state might roll back...
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Organization Moves Conference Because of Georgia’s Immigration Law
The American Educational Research Association has moved its 2013 annual meeting from Atlanta to San Francisco because of HB 87, Georgia’s harmful immigration law, which is modeled after Arizona’s SB...
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Alabama Governor Would Cut Children’s Health Care Before Raising Taxes
In outlining his priorities for Alabama, Gov. Robert Bentley (R) vowed to shrink the size of government and oppose tax increases to balance the state’s budget. But to do that, Bentley is asking the...
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Gun Sales Rise In Texas As NRA Spouts Anti-Obama Fantasies
Since taking office, President Obama has actually expanded gun owners’ rights — the most significant guns legislation he signed was a law allowing people to carry guns in national parks. Nevertheless,...
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