The war against Alabama’s immigration law has intensified in recent weeks, with a Justice Department lawsuit, visits by DOJ officials, and a showdown over illegal alien children who have been pulled from Alabama schools. Eric Holder sued Alabama, trying to block every aspect of its enforcement provision.
Why has the Administration and their ACLU and La Raza allies frantically tried to stop Alabama’s law from being enforced?
Because it’s WORKING – and putting legal Alabamans back to work. As illegals have fled the state by the tens of thousands, the jobs they took – particularly in poultry processing, building trades and transportation – are being filled once again by Alabama citizens. And the unemployment rate in the state has dropped as a result.
Alabama’s unemployment rate fell a half percentage point last month – five times more than the national average of 0.1%. And the drop is not seasonal because it is also a far larger drop than in surrounding states.
To further support this trend, in one heavily Hispanic county with one of the highest percentages of illegal alien labor, the drop has been far more dramatic. Alabama House Majority Leader Rep. Micky Hammon, (R-Decatur), said the huge drop in Marshall County showed the power of Alabama’s H.B. 56:
Hammond pointed to Marshall County, which he called “a known hotbed for illegal immigrant labor.” He said the rate there was 8.1 percent for October, down from 8.8 percent in September and 10 percent in June, when the immigration law was signed. “When Marshall County’s unemployment rate drops almost a full 2 percent since the law was signed, it’s difficult to deny the law is having a positive effect on employment,” Hammond said in his statement.
Marshall County Rep. Kerry Rich (R) told WAFF-TV how poultry plants in his county have rapidly replaced illegal workers with legal ones to do the jobs that we are endlessly told “Americans just won’t do”:
A 2 percent drop in just five months in the county highest in illegal labor shows that Arizona-style immigration laws WORK. And at a time when the Federal government has completely failed to produce any programs or policies to create jobs, laws like Alabama’s H.B. 56 are by far the best solution to removing illegal foreign workers and giving jobs back to American citizens.
For every illegal alien with a job, there is an American without one. Thank you for standing with us and fighting for AZ-style laws across the nation.
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: DONATE link. Thank you. |
In construction alone would create 1000s of jobs
agree, thousands of jobs paying into ss medicare not cash under the table.
If ALL the states would adopt the laws that Alabama and Arizona have or for that matter just enforce the ones already there, Americans could go back to work!! Proven by the drop in unemployment in Alabama!! What is Washington complaining about? I just do not understand how the Washington government can put illegal alliens above American citizens!! What the hell are they thinking? What have the illegals ever done for America except put us in debt and increase crime? How can they fight for them? What is the REAL reason they fight for them so hard?
They vote in a (ahem!) predictable way….
Yes, and the other party likes their cheap labor.
Beware of Progressives (communists) in the Dem’s or Repub’s. They’ll lie & say they are Conservatives too. You have to do your homework.
you got that right, bought and paid for
that’s right, bought and paid for
Speaking of bought and paid for, Alabama BigWig George W. Barber JR is employing and housing illegal aliens for his businesses in Baldwin Co, Alabama, and the local law enforcement won’t touch them.
Communists fill them full of propaganda. Use Google translate and tell Mexicans how Dem’s ruin schools, jobs & Christianity. And, Mexico has 5% unemployment!
Mr. McMahon:
You neglected to post your Economics and Demographics credentials.
hard as you try to hide it, your hate shows…
“What have the illegals ever done for America except put us in debt and increase crime?”
They work harder than you.
They have done more to build America than you.
They pay more taxes than you.
They have suffered and sacrificed a LOT more than you.
Corporate America prefers them over you.
They work harder… no.. they work cheaper and take Americans jobs.(That’s why Greedy corporate America likes them as workers, cheap unskilled labor) Done more to build America? Maybe building debt but that’s about it. How many of your hispanic illegals have fought or died in a war for American freedoms? Pay more taxes? are you nuts.. they burden our social security, welfare, food stamps and hospital care and yet they haven’t paid a penny into those funds all their lives like a legal American has! Suffered and sacrificed for who not America, send them back to where they came from. Let them come into this country like immigrants did legally so many years ago, not illegally!!! If you like them so much and you’re not yourself an illegal why don’t you go back with them. We don’t need you here either! American .. LIve it, Love it, speak it, or Leave it. The movement is coming America, we will take America back by force if necessary prepare yourselves for a bloody war on our own turf…
Watch out because fighting will bring marshall law & the election’d be cancelled…
YOU are a joke Herrera, quit your sniveling, grow a pair and realize your sorry ways are OVER. Now haul a$$ and don’t come back
Balzac: We only love what we have to wait for or work for.
Illegals don’t appreciate the U.S & a free country when everything is handed to them.
where do you get your information?
No they don’t work harder
.
No they haven’t built America
most don’t pay taxes
Surffered?? Bahhahahahaha
Only could they are cheap labor.
If having a plethora of Mexicans was the secret for success then Mexico would be booming! But it is not. It is a drug infested, crime ridden, corrupt rat hole. We do not need them turning the US into the same. Go home.
You a lying motherfucking wetback piece of shit.
Dem’s want us starving so we’ll beg them to do something, anything! And they’ll ram Marxism down our throat before we know it. Conservative Talk Radio: “Reckless Endangerment” proves Dem’s caused the meltdown!
JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY….AND THE VOTES…..AND THE MONEY…..IT’S SIMPLE
Every state should have this law
“Every state should have this law’
Not a big fan of the Constitution, are ya’?
For some strange reason you far righties/baggers are under the strange impression that the US Constitution is printed on toilet paper…
hey leftie, take the toilet paper and dry your crybaby tears sniveler
Ramon…You couldn’t possibly be an American Citizen because you know NOTHING about OUR constitution. You are ignorant, and a LIAR! I would like to see you cross over to your country without your “paperwork”. Why don’t you Mexicans try that. You would get shot by your own! Your border rules are worse than ours. Maybe we should start treating you like YOU treat us Gringos. Go make your own country strong. You have done nothing but ruin ours. You’re a leach. A parasite. And you are as ignorant as you sound. Adios, Mother Fucker!
Ramon, exactly where in the constitution does it guaranteed the rights of invaders?
Chris, unknown Ramon is a crybaby, let the punk snivel til his eyes swell shut, I would like to help them swell shut.
Unions want minimum wage. Its not FREE market. It works in the short term. In the long run, iIlegals come in, work for less & balance the market? Nobel Laureate in Economics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-D24oCa10&feature=related
This may be true…But how’s their crime rate? Bet it’s up big time.
Are you insane?
Great job Alabama! You are not alone in this fight – you have support all across the country!
It’s just a shame we have to fight against OUR OWN government.
Ramon,
I love the constitution. It was originally created to protect citizens, not illegal invaders. Undocumented workers are illegal. Plain and simple, and no ammount of bitching from you, La Raza or anyone else is going to change that. Do things the approved, legal way or gtfo. Can’t get in the legal way because you are an unskilled worker/can’t speak the language/have a rap shhet a mile long? Take the hint, we don’t want you! The audacity of some people.
“It’s just a shame we have to fight against OUR OWN government.”
You forget the government already declared war on the citizens. That happen in 1913 with the Enemy and Sedition Act. You ought to read that.
Unemployment has been steadily dropping nationwide for months and saw a very steep drop last month. Is that a product of Alabama’s law (That REPUBLICANS are now trying to get rid of) or is Alabama’s drop in unemployment just following the national trend?
It is VERY difficult to say that SB1070 is the cause of the drop in unemployment right now. If the drop happened while the rest of the country stayed the same or increased SB1070 could be credited, and there were no other factors like several new factories being built, it could be very easily argued. And those who passed the law wouldn’t now be fighting against it and calling it an embarrassment.
When the people that pass the law are the ones fighting to get rid of it after they see the results of it there’s a problem.
OPERATION: VVETBACK ’2′
I am happy to see a state stand against illegals taking jobs from citizens. It is a myth to believe they only take jobs no one wants. They are taking many construction jobs thruout the country & in fact it has come to my knowledge that at this very moment there is a large project of student housing being constructed in Tuscaloosa that is knowingly using illegals for the framing and other trades. I would certainly like to see this stopped
Thank you Alabama for having the balls to actually enforce the law. This should be an example for Obummer. Get rid of the illegals and American’s have jobs. WOW! What an insight. YES! American’s WILL actually do these jobs.