FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Joseph Rendeiro
jrendeiro@nclr.org
(202) 776-1566
Telephonic press conference examines implications of the Alabama anti-immigrant law on various communities
Washington, D.C.—On Friday, August 5, NCLR (National Council of La Raza) joined an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit filed by a coalition of civil rights groups—Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Alabama, the National Immigration Law Center, the Asian Law Caucus, and the Asian American Justice Center, among others—challenging Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law, HB 56, passed earlier this summer. HB 56 is the harshest anti-immigrant law in the nation, authorizing police officers to investigate the immigration status of noncriminals, requiring that schools collect information about the citizenship of their students, and making it illegal to transport an undocumented individual.
Join NCLR, as well as representatives from the National Education Association and Legal Momentum, which have also filed amicus briefs, for a telephonic press briefing about their decisions to support the legal challenge to Alabama’s extreme law.
The discussion coincides with the release of “National Copycat Landscape,” a map created by NCLR, which provides a portrait of the status of SB 1070 copycat legislation across the United States. The map will be posted on NCLR’s State and Local Initiatives page on Thursday.
MEDIA ADVISORY
WHO: - Elena Lacayo, Immigration Field Coordinator, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, NCLR
- Leslye E. Orloff, Vice President and Director, Legal Momentum Immigrant Women Program
- Alice O’Brien, General Counsel, National Education Association
- Rev. Andrew Dawkins, Montgomery Improvement Association
WHAT: Challenging Alabama’s HB 56 Telephonic Press Briefing
WHEN: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 1:00 p.m. EDT
HOW: Call: 800-895-0231
Conference Title: Challenging Alabama’s HB 56
Conference ID: 7HB56
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