Showing posts with label Alabama immigration law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama immigration law. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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.