Tweaks to Alabama’s draconian immigration law are not an improvement

Changes to Alabama's law might be worse than the original one. Bad news.  - - Donna Poisl

By Editorial Board

ALABAMA’S LAW targeting illegal immigrants has been partly gutted by federal judges, who found key provisions unconstitutional; attacked by agricultural interests, which say it has created labor shortages in the fields; and assailed by business groups, which fear it is fostering a hostile economic climate. Shortly after the law took effect last fall, a visiting German executive from Mercedes-Benz was detained for hours by police. Oops. Officers said that under the new law, they had no choice but to check his legal status when all he could show them was a German ID.

Undeterred, state lawmakers have refused to repeal the law. Instead, they are tweaking it in hopes of avoiding such embarrassments and running further afoul of the courts. In the process, though, they may make matters worse.
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