The Alabama Legislature scored a huge victory on Friday, as Gov. Robert Bentley reluctantly signed immigration law H.B. 658 – after legislators refused to “moderate” provisions Bentley (and open-borders activists) had complained were too “harsh” against illegal aliens. Alabama’s immigration law H.B. 56, patterned after Arizona’s S.B. 1070, passed in 2011, and has been called [...]
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Alabama Miracle? Dramatic Drop in Unemployment Continues After Crackdown on Illegals
The numbers are dramatic, although you shouldn’t expect to hear it trumpeted on your evening news. It simply doesn’t fit the media’s narrative about “traumatized Latinos” and “crops rotting in the fields” that we heard all Summer long after Alabama’s Governor Bentley signed their tough immigration law H.B. 56. What was really happening in all [...]
Alabama Law Pays Off: Unemployment Down Sharply After Crackdown on Illegal Aliens
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 [...]
Judge Upholds Most of Alabama’s Tough Immigration Law (Victory on H.B. 56!)
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 [...]
