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November 21, 2013

As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, the turkey on their plates was most likely processed by workers enduring grueling conditions that threaten their health – conditions likely to become worse, according to food safety and worker rights experts. During a news conference organized by the SPLC and a coalition of other advocates, these experts urged federal agencies to slow down poultry processing line speeds to ensure safe food and safe workplaces. 

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November 14, 2013

On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner said there is not enough time remaining in 2013 to debate and pass immigration reform. It is almost as if the speaker believes his congressional colleagues cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. Members of Congress are not one-trick ponies, however, and Congress is capable of fixing the broken immigration system in the coming months.

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October 29, 2013

Alabama’s vicious anti-immigrant law, which passed in 2011 amid warnings that it was unconstitutional, has been effectively gutted by an agreement the SPLC and other civil rights groups have reached with the state to permanently block key provisions of the law – adding Alabama to a list of states that have seen their anti-immigrant laws stopped by federal lawsuits.

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August 08, 2013

The Southern Poverty Law Center announced that five more lawsuits have been filed this week against Signal International LLC, accusing the shipbuilder and its network of recruiters and labor brokers of trafficking 500 Indian guest workers to the United States and forcing them to work under barbaric conditions.

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