The New Alabama immigration law

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I finally had a chance to look into the new Alabama immigration law, aka the Beason-Hammon  Taxpayer and Citizen  Protection Act.
It's about 70 pages long, but if you want the highlights, here it is:

In an echo of the Arizona law, the Alabama legislation requires that
police, in the course of any lawful "stop, detention or arrest," make a
reasonable attempt to determine a person's citizenship and immigration
status, given a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an immigrant,
unless doing so would hinder an investigation.




It outlaws illegal immigrants from receiving any state or local public
benefits, bars them from enrolling in or attending public colleges, and
prohibits them from applying for or soliciting work.
It forbids
the harboring and transport of illegal immigrants, and outlaws renting
them property or "knowingly" employing them for any work within the
state. It also makes it a "discriminatory practice" to fire, or decline
to hire, a legal resident when an illegal one is on the payroll.

The law criminalizes "dealing in false identification documents" and,
beginning April 1, will require every business in the state to verify
employees' immigration status using the federal E-Verify system.

It deems invalid any contract to which an illegal immigrant is a party
if the legal party in the contract has "direct or constructive
knowledge" that the other person was in the country illegally. And it
requires a citizenship check for people registering to vote.
For
opponents, one of the most disturbing provisions is a requirement that
officials in K-12 public schools determine whether students are illegal
immigrants. It will not ban the students from schools, but rather
require every school district to submit an annual report on the number
of presumed illegal immigrants to the state education board.

The link to the article is: right here
The full text link is :right here
When you  take away a person's right to live, work, conduct business, be detained by the cops because he looks like a foreigner unless proven otherwise and the privilege to drive (and arrest anyone who picks you up), you may drive him out of the state. Those that do remain turn into a permanent underclass. Much like the "Jim Crow" laws in the post ante-bellum south. The only things missing is the banning of marriage between foreigners and citizens and making all foreigners live in segregated areas.
I do not believe the Republicans of the Civil War fought to end slavery only to have those in their party 150 years later create an underclass whose economic and political status would the same as the blacks during the Jim Crowe era.
I will admit to my shame that I had not been following the political news coming out of Montgomery. One thing for sure, I will be switching parties.
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