Alabama?s immigration travesty

YOU?D THINK that Alabama, crucible of the civil rights movement, would be wary of enacting legislation whose effect is to marginalize, ostracize and demonize people based on their ethnic or racial origin. But notwithstanding official protestations from Montgomery, that?s exactly what is likely to happen starting next Thursday when the state?s poisonous law targeting illegal immigrants takes effect.��

�� As described by Micky Hammon, Republican majority leader of the state?s House of Representatives and the measure?s chief sponsor, the legislation was patterned after a similar bill in Arizona ? but with ?an Alabama flavor.? Part of that ?flavor,? as Mr. Hammon explains it in a video available on YouTube, involves requiring residents to produce IDs to establish their immigration status in ?every aspect of a person?s life.?

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