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'anti-immigration'

Federal court declines to reinstate Trump's travel ban in unanimous ruling

A three-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today  unanimously refused to reinstate President Trump's ban on refugees and certain visa holders from entering the country.
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Sen. Tom Cotton aims to lead Trump's charge to curtail legal immigration

Politico reports that Sen. Tom Cotton is angling to be at the forefront of Trump's effort to crack down on legal immigration, including stopping the entry of some of the most vulnerable populations in the world.
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Governor says bills targeting Sharia law and 'sanctuary campuses' are unnecessary

At a press conference this morning to sign his military retiree tax cut into law, Governor Hutchinson gave critical remarks about two pieces of legislation by Rep. Brandt Smith (R-Jonesboro) that seem to target immigrants.

Committee approves bill targeting Sharia law

In other states, such legislation has been introduced based on a theory that's circulated among conspiracy theorists on the right: Sharia, or Islamic law, is secretly infiltrating the American judicial and political systems and must be preempted.
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Universities issue statements in response to Trump's executive order; many students potentially impacted

The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have both issued statements in response to President Donald Trump's controversial executive order. UA Fayetteville has more than 100 people on campus from the affected countries who have visas to study, visit, and work in the U.S. There are  55 UA Little Rock students from those countries.

Anti-immigrant legislation likely to run in House Education committee Tuesday

Update, Jan. 31, 2017, 3:40 p.m.: HB 1042 did not come up for a vote in committee this morning after all. Rep. Smith told the committee he would be amending the measure before bringing it back for a vote.
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Trump immigration protest at LR: Quick and fierce

It was not even 24 hours ago that Sophia Said, director of the Interfaith Center; City Director Kathy Webb and others decided to organize a protest today of Donald Trump's executive order that has left people from Muslim countries languishing in airports or unable to come to the US at all — people with visas, green cards,a  post-doc graduate student en route to Harvard, Google employees abroad, families. I got the message today before noon; others didn't find out until it was going on. But however folks found out, they turned out in huge numbers, more than thousand men, women and children, on the grounds of the state Capitol to listen to speakers from all faiths and many countries.

4-4 Supreme Court split dooms Obama immigration plan

A 4-4 U.S. Supreme Court couldn't decide an appeal of a lower court ruling blocking President Obama's immigration plan, which effectively kills it for the rest of his term.
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Tom Cotton thinks Latinos don't care about Trump anti-immigration stance

Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker about Republicans coming to grips with a divisive candidate, particularly one that has sent such a virulent message to immigrants.

Arkansas immigration activists travel to DC as Supreme Court hears landmark case

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in what may be the most significant case related to immigration in a generation or more. Some Arkansans will be listening.
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New dark money ads attack Justice Goodson for Supreme Court's unanimous decision invalidating Arkansas voter ID law

A new mailer by the Judicial Crisis Network tells voters that Courtney Goodson is a stooge for Barack Obama and his liberal agenda.

Big cases looming for Supreme Court, with vacant seat after Justice Antonin Scalia's death

Texas officials have said that Antonin Scalia died of a heart attack. His death will have an immediate impact on American jurisprudence and public policy.
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