Monday, December 05, 2011

Editorial: Alabama nets more than illegal immigrants

Awful examples of the harm this new law is doing and a couple comical ones. - - Donna Poisl

USA TODAY Editorial

Alabama's harsh new immigration law has been in effect for less than three months, but it has already wreaked the kind of havoc that's inevitable when legislators are so obsessed with driving out illegal immigrants that they don't think much about who else gets hurt in the process.

Growers have seen immigrant labor disappear and produce rot in the fields as they try to recruit the citizens the law's proponents promised would do the work the illegal immigrants were supposedly stealing from them. An outfit called Grow Alabama hired more than 50 legal workers to pick tomatoes, but most quit in a day or two, and only one stuck it out for two weeks.
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1 comment:

Ucok said...

I think only in developing and underdeveloped countries are doing so, but America is a country with high democracy and better civilization course. good article. keep posting :)