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Judge blocks parts of South Carolina immigration law

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – South Carolina is barred from enforcing several key areas of its new law aimed to curb illegal immigration, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, the sixth state to have an immigration law stymied by the courts.

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Judge blocks Alabama immigration rule on mobile homes

BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) – A federal judge temporarily blocked a part of Alabama’s tough new immigration law on Monday that requires residents to show proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes with the state. U.S.

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Clergy Sues To Stop Alabama’s Immigration Law

A growing number of critics say that the law that criminalizes all kinds of contact with undocumented residents — including harboring illegal immigrants — violates their religious freedom to be a good Samaritan. A U.S. district judge is considering Wednesday whether to stop the law from going into effect Sept

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Immigration Law Ruling May Send Message

States that had been watching Arizona’s immigration law in hopes of copying it received a rude awakening when a judge put most of the measure on hold and agreed with the Obama administration’s core argument that immigration enforcement is the role of the federal government. The ruling marked a repudiation of the Arizona law as U.S

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Immigration law gets first major hearing

PHOENIX — A Phoenix police officer could be fired if he doesn’t enforce the state’s new immigration law he has sued to block, an attorney told a federal judge Thursday in the first major hearing in one of seven challenges to the strict crackdown. Attorneys for Gov

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