"Alabama governor signs strict, controversial immigration bill; Allows arrest of anyone suspected of being illegal" June 10, 2011|By Bob Johnson, Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s governor yesterday signed a tough new illegal immigration law that requires public schools to determine students’ immigration status and makes it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.
The bill also allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if stopped for any reason. Alabama employers also are now required to use a federal system called E-Verify to determine whether new workers are in the country legally.
Governor Robert Bentley said the law is the nation’s toughest, and groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center agree. The groups plan to challenge it.
The legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mary Bauer, said she expects a lawsuit to be filed before the provisions of the law are scheduled to take effect on Sept. 1.
“It is clearly unconstitutional. It’s mean-spirited, racist, and we think a court will enjoin it.’’
Sam Brooks of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project said the new law will set back progress Alabama has made on civil rights and race relations. He also said it would be costly for the state to enforce and defend the law....
One of the sponsors, Senator Scott Beason, a Republican of Gardendale, said the legislation would create jobs and put unemployed residents back to work.
“This will put thousands of Alabamians back in the workforce,’’ Beason said....
By taking more tax money from those lucky enough to have a job so another layer of fascism can be employed?
Your paperz, pleez!!
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