Alabama Immigration Law

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Please read this yahoo article concerning Alabama's harsh immigration law. http://news.yahoo.com/ala-loses-workers-immigration-law-takes-effect-222404123.html

What the article doesn't report is that police officers can, with "reasonable suspicion," stop anyone they believe is an undocumented immigrant (be it in a car or a business). For some cops, a Hispanic appearance may serve as reasonable suspicion.

This law is destroying Alabama farmers' livelihoods and negatively affecting the restaurant and construction businesses. Farmers across the South rely on migrant labor; without enough workers, farmers simply cannot harvest,plant, or maintain all of their crops. Combine the resulting increase in food prices with our food tax, and you get hungry families that cannot afford healthy food.

This law is discouraging legal immigration. Hispanics here legally are subject to constant harassment, so they return to their home countries taking their sales tax, money spent on goods in the US, and cheap labor for US companies with them. All this talk of illegals "cheating the system" is false; the taxes they pay do not reward them (social security, Medicare). Instead, they help pay for yours, mine, and the country's. Not all legal immigrants are poor migrant farmers; many are productive, valuable members of society, and we are keeping these doctors, these students, these engineers out of our country. How can a country founded by immigrants deny those who want to improve their lives? My friend's parents spent thousands of dollars and 15 years of their lives to obtain their visa; how can we expect impoverished families to do this?

Breaking up families and shipping them to poverty-stricken provinces run by drug cartels is not the solution; it is the "Final Solution." Rather, we should make legal migration more attainable and appealing.

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My bf told me about this. I think it's dumb.

[bob-jr]

I think that whoever came up with that law obviously missed out on common sence when thet were handing it out. But u dont need many ppl to harvest he produce from farms. And plzzz have a lil less writing nxt time my head hurts.

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I think that whoever came up with that law obviously missed out on common sence when thet were handing it out. But u dont need many ppl to harvest he produce from farms. And plzzz have a lil less writing nxt time my head hurts.

Sorry about the length, bob. Well, a large number of farmers relied solely on migrant farmers. On the bright side, some volunteer groups are sending workers to prevent the harvest from being completely lost; hopefully, this will last until the law gets repealed.

[bob-jr]

I think that whoever came up with that law obviously missed out on common sence when thet were handing it out. But u dont need many ppl to harvest he produce from farms. And plzzz have a lil less writing nxt time my head hurts.

Sorry about the length, bob. Well, a large number of farmers relied solely on migrant farmers. On the bright side, some volunteer groups are sending workers to prevent the harvest from being completely lost; hopefully, this will last until the law gets repealed.

How big are the farms cos over here there quite big but at least 2-3 people can manage them and if they need help they know other farmers who will help if they help them back in return.

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I think that whoever came up with that law obviously missed out on common sence when thet were handing it out. But u dont need many ppl to harvest he produce from farms. And plzzz have a lil less writing nxt time my head hurts.

Sorry about the length, bob. Well, a large number of farmers relied solely on migrant farmers. On the bright side, some volunteer groups are sending workers to prevent the harvest from being completely lost; hopefully, this will last until the law gets repealed.

How big are the farms cos over here there quite big but at least 2-3 people can manage them and if they need help they know other farmers who will help if they help them back in return.

I don't know anything about acreage, so I can't say how big the family owned farms are. The farmers are all helping each other out, as are other groups. Hopefully all of these lawsuits (I've counted at least 8) will make that federal judge put the law on hold until the cases are settled.