Gov. Bentley Has Arizona Style Law On His Desk

Will Republican Governor Robert Bentley of Alabama give his stamp of approval to the controversial Arizona-style bill to crack down on illegal aliens?   The American Civil Liberties Union has vowed to challenge it in court.

The bill, passed by the Alabama Legislature on Thursday night, makes it a crime for a person to be in the state without a valid federal registration or other proof of legal presence.

Similar to the Arizona law, the bill allows police in a traffic stop to detain anyone without legal papers if the officers have "reasonable suspicion" that they may be present illegally and research by the officers can't turn up any records. "Reasonable suspicion" could include acting nervously or having a tag that doesn't match vehicle registration records, sponsors of the bill said.

It would also be a crime for an illegal immigrant to apply for work. The bill requires all Alabama businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to check the legal status of new employees, although businesses with 25 or fewer employees could get the state Department of Homeland Security to do it for them. A business caught twice for knowingly hiring an illegal immigrant would lose its business license.

The bill also makes it a crime to transport or harbor illegal immigrants and it prevents cities from passing laws to protect illegal immigrants in their cities.

"It's an outrageous throwback to the pre-civil rights era and we call on Governor Bentley to veto this deeply misguided bill," Cecilia Wang, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, said Friday. "The Alabama Legislature has invited rank discrimination into people's everyday lives."

Republican Senator Scott Beason, who helped write the legislation, said it's designed to take jobs away from illegal immigrants and give them to legal residents. "This is a jobs bill," he said.

Democratic Senator Linda Coleman predicted it would lead to discrimination. But Beason said, "You can't just stop someone because of how they look."

What part of illegal alien or immigrant does the ACLU and Democrats not understand?  These people are in America illegally.  They are breaking the laws of America, they are costing taxpayers billions of dollars every year.

The federal government will not uphold our laws.  The states are now forced to enforce the federal law the federal government will not.

Let's hope Gov. Bentley signs the law this week.

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