The New Alabama Immigration Law

As the US immigration debate continues on the state level, Alabama has passed a new immigration law to go into effect September 1st 2011. Some aspects of the law include:

• Making it a crime to work, rent a home and failing to comply with federal registration laws 
• Businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants will lose their licenses
• Public school officials will be required to determine students’ immigration status and report back to the state.
•  Anyone knowingly “concealing, harboring or shielding” an illegal immigrant could be charged with a crime, say for renting someone an apartment or driving her to church or the doctor.
•  It nullifies any contracts when one party is an undocumented immigrant.
• Right to detain anyone  if there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are undocumented

Click here to learn more about the Alabama law.