Alabama Immigration Law Has Surprise Result

As most people know, Americans don't want these jobs and the immigration law only caused horrible labor shortages. Refugees (mostly from Africa) from other states had to be brought in to fill the jobs.    - - Donna Poisl

By Margaret Newkirk and Gigi Douban

Esene Manga, an Eritrean refugee living in Atlanta, hadn’t heard of Albertville, Alabama until a recruiter offered him a job there. Now Manga, 22, earns $10.85 an hour cutting chicken breasts on a poultry-plant night shift, an unexpected beneficiary of a year-old law designed to drive out illegal Hispanic immigrants.

This isn’t what the law’s backers said would happen. Republican state Senator Scott Beason, a sponsor, said at a news conference last year that the restrictions on undocumented workers would “put thousands of native Alabamians back in the work force.”
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