Snow: Scrap Alabama immigration law now

[struggle4progress]

By: Wayne Snow | Columnist
Published: December 02, 2011

I have been fortunate enough to make six trips behind the old Iron Curtain since the collapse of the Soviet Union and another trip to a secular Islamic country.

In those seven trips comprising more than three months, I never encountered any problems with uniformed authority, although I was somewhat apprehensive because these were not places that historically put great value in civil liberties. Yet never did a uniformed officer stop me and ask me for my identity papers.

In the last couple of weeks, some legal visitors to Alabama have not been so fortunate. A German Mercedes-Benz manager was arrested on Nov. 16, and a Japanese Honda worker was ticketed earlier this week for allegedly violating the state’s infamous immigration law. Both cases received international coverage and should be a huge embarrassment to state leaders.

If I were head of a foreign corporation considering doing business in Alabama, the actions of the political leadership over the last few months would dissuade me. I would take my money and my jobs somewhere else, where the environment was more welcoming ...

http://www2.oanow.com/news/2011/dec/02/snow-easier-be-us-citizen-abroad-alabama-ar-2788761/

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2. And then there are the Alabama farmers

who saw their crops rot because no Mexicans or other migrant workers wanted to take the chance of being harassed to death by the authorities just because they now could.

Laws like that are much more troublesome than they are worth. Alabama, Georgia and Arizona are having to find that out the hard way. Let's hope the rest of the country is taking careful note of this or it's going to be a hungry year.

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3. did`t read about the german...maybe alabama forgot we won ww2?

nissan moved a plant from alabama to canada because they could`t find enough skilled help in alabama to assemble their cars.

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