Posted on 06/09/2011 8:10:00 PM PDT by Justaham
Alabama vaulted past Arizona on Thursday with what is being called the most restrictive law in the nation against illegal immigration, requiring schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.
Advocacy groups promised to challenge the sweeping measure, which like Arizona's law also allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if the person is stopped for some other reason. In addition, it requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify.
"It is clearly unconstitutional. It's mean-spirited, racist, and we think a court will enjoin it," said Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It takes effect Sept. 1.
Republican Gov. Robert Bentley, who signed it into law Thursday, expressed confidence it would withstand any legal challenges.
"We have a real problem with illegal immigration in this country," he said. "I campaigned for the toughest immigration laws, and I'm proud of the Legislature for working tirelessly to create the strongest immigration bill in the country."
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“In addition, it requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify.”
Isn’t this the purpose of E-verify? I thought this was already a law. Clearly tho, it must not be since we continue to have these problems. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more complaints about how mean old Republicans are trying to illegalize illegal immigration.
Two down, 48 to go.....
The mean-spiritedness and racism are coming from those who make disgusting and ridiculous comments about ‘angry white men’, and who talk about ‘taking back Mexico's land’, and who talk about becoming the majority in the US by 2050 through immigration and high birth rates. I don't recall hearing people like Ms. Bauer criticizing La Raza for their racism.
The problem with people like Bauer is that they think they are on the enlightened, morally superior side of all their pet issues, and are thus closed minded and dogmatic, and think they are justified in pushing their ideology and agenda on the rest of us, no matter what the consequences.
Only to point this out...the folks in Montgomery are prepared to issue a waiver for any decent five-star high school quarterback in the nation who might be an illegal resident but a top candidate for Auburn or Bama state. And while I might intend this to be sarcastic commentary...I’m awful serious.
What this mess will trigger is a bunch of wannabe cops putting up roadblocks and asking everyone in a car to produce an ID. You could have thousands of folks per month cited....for failing to carry an ID of some type to identify their nationality. Trust me....we have more than enough local wannabe cops who would take this law to a silly level and make local legit folks openly hostile.
Roll Tide Roll! Screw the pencil neck geeks. If I get stopped at a checkpoint, I have to show my bona fides. Why shouldn’t they?
That would be a success, wouldn't it?
The federal government will not do their jobs so the states must protect themselves from the over-whelming costs of these immigrants. Alabama has less residents than the city of Houston, Texas.
Leave us alone, we already have enough people on welfare, etc.
Oklahoma passed similarly tough messycan laws but the only way crimigrants will get rousted by the cops is if they meet at dunkin donuts.
Roll, Tide!
It’s unconstitutional not to enforce our nation’s laws. Illegal immigrants are breaking our laws.
Dammned good idea there.
Now, this is the kind of “immigration reform” I can get behind.
I would only support waivers for top candidates to Auburn.
Not for Alabama. Supporting a waiver for anyone to go to Alabama is clearly unconstitutional. I think Alexander Hamilton specifically talked about that in the Federalist Papers.
States Rights! What a concept Alabama won’t be reconstructed. Way to go my Alabama brothers, way to stick it to FedGov™.. We are one step closer to the final solution, secession of a state(s). It’s gonna happen people, just wait.
the state must move immediately to make arrests and put illegals in jail and issue fines and enforcement against businesses. The state must act quickly before the injunction that is surely coming.
The Feds must be placed in a position of forcing release of lawbreakers and endangering the state economy.
“..Southern Poverty Law Center.”..
Another communist front group.
Useless Idiot Trash
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