Caught in the Net: Immigration Laws  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8769 (Jan. 2012), page 33-34.
Topik: Aliens; Legislation; Immigration policy; Politics; Problems

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Alabama's immigration law, boasted Micky Hammon, an Alabama legislator and one of its co-authors, "attacks every aspect of an illegal immigrant's life. They will not stay in Alabama...This bill is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves." It is not, however, designed to introduce visiting executives from Mercedes-Benz, which employs thousands at its factory in the state, to the pleasures of Alabama's jails. But that is what happened to Detlev Hager, who was caught in November driving in Tuscaloosa with only German ID on him. Alabama's immigration law is the nation's toughest. As enacted, however, the law has not turned out quite as its backers planned. The law's authors shrewdly included a sever-ability clause, ensuring that if a court strikes down or prohibits one part of the law, the rest remains in effect. So it has, and Mr Hammon's fond hope--that illegal immigrants will leave--seems to have come true. Anecdotal reports suggest that thousands of Latinos, legal as well as illegal, have left Alabama. Farmers complain of rotting crops and building companies of rising costs, both because there are too few workers.

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