A Federal District Judge today upheld most of Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law, H.B. 56. This ruling meaning those provisions are now in effect while lawsuits from parties as varied as the U.S. Department of Justice, ACLU, left-wing religious groups and – outrageously – the Mexican Government, move forward in her courtroom.
Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn’s ruling represents a defeat for Eric Holder, as the main provision was upheld. And it represents a major victory for the people of Alabama, for Stand With Arizona, whose attorneys helped draft the legislation, and for Americans in other states trying to pass similar, Arizona-style laws in their own states. The ruling follows a ruling in June by Judge Thomas Thrash upholding most of Georgia’s enforcement law, H.B. 87.
As part of Judge Blackburn’s ruling, the following provisions and sections are now in effect in the state of Alabama.
APPROVED:
- The provision of H.B. 56 related to requiring police stops and detentions of people suspected of being in the country illegally – the most critical provision opposed by Holder, which was blocked in Arizona.
- Sections requiring schools to check the citizenship status of children.
- Sections that would nullify contracts knowingly entered into with unauthorized aliens.
- The section making it a felony for “an alien not lawfully present in the United States” to apply for a license plate, driver’s license, business license or other business license.
The provisions/sections Blackburn has blocked, pending trial, include the following.
BLOCKED:
- Provision stopping a “unauthorized alien” from seeking work as an employee or independent contractor.
- Section criminalizing those who assist unauthorized aliens. Blocked a large section which would make it against the law to “conceal, harbor, transport or encourage” an illegal alien to stay in Alabama. (including landlords). - this provision was most strongly contested by left-wing pastors, who routinely help illegal aliens break the law and obtain benefits
- Portion of the law that would stop businesses from deducting the wages they pay to unauthorized aliens from their state taxes.
- Portion creating a new protected class of workers. (The new law would have allowed workers who were not hired or fired instead of unauthorized aliens to sue employers for discrimination).
Now it is on to the trials. But already, despite the sections she blocked, the first two provisions she allowed – mandatory police checks, and citizenship checks of children in schools – will have an enormous deterrent effect on illegals who were heretofore considering remaining in Alabama, and we expect a very large exodus to follow, in addition to the reports we have already received regarding thousands who have already fled.
Thank you Judge Blackburn, for respecting Federal law, and the will of the people – something the hyper-partisan Judge Susan Bolton arrogantly pushed aside in blocking most of Arizona’s common sense law S.B. 1070.
Stand With Arizona is spreading our efforts to 22 additional states this fall and next year, in order to pass Arizona-style legislation in as many as we can. We have boots on the ground in every state, and we have a new team of attorneys to help draft bills that will continue to be upheld and advance the cause.
Even when half of an Arizona-style law is blocked by a judge, the remaining provisions push illegal aliens out, allow unemployed Americans greater access to jobs, and massively cut expenses for healthcare, education and incarceration for the states who pass the laws. THIS IS WHY WE MUST PRESS ON. In every state we can. Creating a critical mass of states enforcing the law – doing the job the Feds refuse to do.
PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION of $10.70 to Stand With Arizona in honor of SB1070, to help us continue to fight against illegal alien amnesty and push for Arizona-style enforcement laws nationwide. Thank you. |
I don’t think a lot of people really know what this law is doing. The jobs that will open up most American people want do. There are some really good, hard working people, with American children whose lives will be ruined because of ignorance.
kids that should not be here, By the way we paid for them to be born.did anyone pay for your kids. Thay take our jobs that we need badly now. So go home.
Bill from AZ
i really dont think hispanics are the problem america has because when you fire and deport most of the hispanics that you say still your jobs and tax money you are going to have a lot of americans that cannot do the same jobs that we do and the economy is going to fall into a recession because most hispanics that work dont apply for tax returns dont have any medicare insurance and are not just relying on the goverment they came to this country for a reason and that was to have a better future for there kids and i promise that there is a lot of american youth out there that dont care about getting an education as much as we do because all they are going to do is wait for the goverment to provide them housing, food benefits,and health care.
please dont help destroy families most hispanic kids are more patriotic about america because they dont know about another home other than the us.of a
Just curious, mike, you say that hispanics are more patriotic than our American kids? Then explain to me why the Mexican flag is flown at rallies for amnesty and other hot topic issues. If they are so patriotic to their host country, shouldn’t it be the American flag they are flying?
You said not just ! Thay,you should not be getting anything from our goverment. Not AMERICAN Get Out. !!!BYE !!!
Mike our country is already in a recession. A second recession! And yes there are more Hispanic Illegals in our country than any other race. But just for your clarification, I feel this way about ALL Illegals. I don’t care what race you are. Illegal is not a race, it’s an act against law and we simply want to enforce our laws. Why can’t these people make a better life in their own country? And why do you feel that we should give up our right to make a better life for our children and our citizens by elimination illegals that have no right to be here?
BULL. WE DON’T NEED A LOT OF ILLEGALS TAKING CARE OF OUR COUNTRY AND JOBS GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN.
Who did the jobs before hispanics ? Oh Americans ! It is sad not to agree with American law hispanics who are legal should agree ,loyalty to America
is important , choose to protest ,you are not American.
Dude Mexican do all the work every houze u zee Mexicanz have made it …. alzo American People Wont do wat mexicanz work in zo qive thankz to all the Mexicanz becuz they had helped ALABAMA
Miquel, after trying to make sense of what you wrote I find myself even more in favor of making English our national language.
You did nothing but steal jobs ,there are full graveyards that proves everyone who lived long before you built it , build Mexico.
There’s nothing ignorant about upholding the laws of our country. Whats ignorant, is those of you who come here Illegally and expect no opposition from the citizens that this country belongs to!
Yes Chris, their own ignorance! Illegal Aliens are well aware of the consequences of coming to our country Illegaly and they choose to do it anyway. They have anchor babies to use as leverage against their illegal actions and deportation. Now they want to be saved from themselves and their own choices. Well we want to be saved too! Saved from indefinately allowing Illegal Aliens to enter and stay in our country. It’s not ignorance, it’s the law and we citizens have the right to enforce it.
I beleive it needs to add all those on assistance must work on the farms ,those who draw unemployment must be required to contribute , Offer high School kids a job after school .We need not rely on illegal’s whokill Americans on the border .We have options .Speak with your representatives and put this in place it does work ! We must remove the ignorance of believing these illegals are here to do no harm! They already stole every decent job and drove down the amount buisnessis willing to pay .You do have to pay for work your personal greed is no goodreason to leave millions jobless.
After all they are working in more places than farms !
Thank you for standing up for the people , and the Consitution.We the people!!!!!!!!!
Ofcourse what else would be expected out of people who never think outside the box and are so blinded by fear and ignorance that they don’t see this will kill Alabama. If Alabama is a poor state now it will be in even worse shape once its all said and done! And what’s jobs are u so called Americans crying about? Is it the ones you don’t want to do like catch live chickens? Hmm how sad in deed!
Monica, we’re not afraid, we’re fed up! Fed up with supporting your illegal ass with our tax dollars. Fed up with you stealing services from American citizens that you aren’t entitled to. Fed up with your anchor babies taking seats away from our kids in classrooms. Fed up with the Trillions of dollars that you contribute to our countries deficit. Fed up with the jobs that you take away from from American Citizens! FED UP! Not afraid. Why don’t you Illegals stop being afraid and go back to your own counties and fight for your rights there?! If you fought as couragesly in your own countries as you do in ours, you would’nt have to sneak in like a thief in the night!
Well said Debra. When we didn’t like what our country was doing to us we had a revolution and created our own. If all of the immigrants say that its so bad where they come from, how about they stand up and fight for their rights? Stand up and improve your own country.
Hahaha Debra your ignorance is bliss!! First of all I am an American Citizen and you mean you are fed up with supporting all the lazy people on Dissability who can work but prefer to sit at home and draw a check that my tax dollars pay for!! While they sit at home drinking a smoking I and all the Hispanics I know are out there busting our ass!! So don’t give me that crap that you support us cause you sure as hell don’t!!
Oh and Debra the jobs we “take” are the ones you don’t want to do, I’ve never seen a white person in the tomato field or catching chickens and there plenty of opportunity there so you might want to rethink that
This nation became a great nation because of our respect of laws and regulations.
Illegal immigrants come to this country by breaking our laws and have the nerve to demand special treatment and take advantage of our system. This lawless behavior is leading to the destruction of our nation in the same way that they have destroyed their countries.
Probably is hard for you to understand because you seem to behave like the illegals, no respect for our country and our laws.
Regarding catching chickens and tomato fields, that is not a justification to break the law.
If you get out of the ghetto and go to the country you will see plenty of people of all colors doing farm work.
Oh Mike how wrong you are because the places I am talking about is in the country and maybe if you would get out of the ghetto and go to the country you would see all the Hispanics. And I do respect our wonderful country and its laws it goes against the Constitution to discriminate one set of people, one race!! That’s why the Emancipation Proclamation came into effect because at that time they were discriminating African Americans. So don’t give me your side of what laws are and what’s going on when you don’t know yourself
You are misinformed and confused. First “Hispanic” is not a race. “Hispanic “is a label created by politicians and self-appointed leaders as a way of gaining power. Second, this is about breaking the laws and entering the country illegally. In any other country the penalties for entering illegally is incarceration. Third, you insult every black person when you equate his or her experience with illegal immigration. Their ancestors came to this country as slaves against their wishes; illegal invaders enter this country against our wishes nobody forces them to come.
I do have a lot of knowledge and experience; because I am a proud American that immigrated to this country legally from South America, I do not carry a “Hispanic” label because I am an American. Because of my experience, I understand how illegal immigration is destroying the cultural strength of this nation by refusing to assimilate, since they are illiterate. In addition, they hate our nation and have a mind set against respect for laws and regulations.
So after all the illegal immigrants are expelled from our beloved United States of America and returned to their country of origin, who is going to pick the tomatoes and chase the chickens? You Mike? Or perhaps Debra? I know for a fact that I am not about to get my hands dirty, that’s the reason I have a college education, but if not them, then who? Who is going to be willing to perform those jobs? at minimum wage? Are going to have to import all of our farm goods? In this day and age of the video games and microwaveable dinners, american kids are too afraid of good all fashion manual labor. As a college student I was offered a part time job with campus maintenance that no one seem to hold over a week, because it involved emptying out the recycling containers through out campus and doing the yard work over at one of the students housing. Apparently according to my supervisor the soonest the other students found out that this was a job were your hands got dirty they quit. I was the only one willing to put up with it over the whole semester. The point is that if not them, then who is going to chase the chickens and pick the tomatoes?
Illegal is not a race nor is it a racial crime it is illegal .Hire people and pay them nothing is free ,driving the economy down ,forces americans to accept poor wages/You need to have nonviolent prisoners work ,welfare recipients , the unemployed .By the way our constitutionandbill of rights do not apply to illegals
They are commiting a crime if you want to help economic terrorism you need to be
investigated. Pay Americans ,rally nonviolent offenders prisons ,rally the department of
welfare ,hire high school kids but do not even say theiris nobody to do this job
There are people and unless you wish to own slaves you will find workers ,the
resources are there use them.
Anonymous and Miquel what great comments both of you left!!! Mike shame on you for denying what you are sure you are “American” by title but not by race because you were not born here and at the end of the day no matter what YOU think you are if you fall under Hispanic, Latino category you too my friend will be judged.And I don’t know who you are speaking too but all the Latinos and Hispanics I know love this wonderful country and work hard everyday to help make it the great country it is. And I’m sorry but we are not illiterate , you might be speaking about yourself on that one because as you see my english and spelling is as good if not better than Yours! So illiterate NOT and shame on you!
Latino is not a race, is a label. I rest my case.
Ha, ya know whats funny? that i see all this people happy for “home sweet home alabama” but i can not wait until it fails. ALABAMA LAWS WILL GO DOWN. and in god i trust it will. the funny part is all this people happy with the alabama laws, but guess what i cant wait until it goes down and you’ll be the one crying
every single tear will make us lagh more 
You know alabama supporters!, God still love you! maybe stop hanging out with the devil?
and all this old foks maybe want to play nice? you know you are ready to die.. or prob dead as we speak maybe if u repent god will take u
and if u comment. i care less you had ur opinion, now this is mine.. i dont need to hear abt ya
John, I might respect your opinion if I could understand your vocabulary.
More States are adding the law so Illegal is just that .Arizona ,Indiana ,Alabama ,Georgia ,I would say Americans have stated the law They will use their own fellow American to work .Keep spreading this law it makes America secure .
Dennis p. Aka moron “But the fact is that the united states cannot afford to take care of the world any more.” Lol that’s all the U.S does is leech off other countries. Always butting in. to take others natrual resources… You dumb white trash ugly lazy fuck..
The problem with the lazy fuck is it is not me. The United States is on her way back.