why is the alabama immigration laws are needed ( Archived) (219)

well it is needed so that it will make it harder for illegals to live here. they are taking away jobs and stretching the system to far out and it is making our nation go broke supporting them. it is time that we said no to illegals coming in our nation and the benefits should go to those who are living here. in my opinion every state in the nation should have simuler laws in their books.. also they shouldn't get in state tution while regular kids have to pay threw the nose.. the president doesn't care about border security and the democrats want their votes to end the republican party. sooner or later we have to close the borders and deport those illegals back to their own countries. even the legal immigrants that are here would agree with me.

I am so glad Alabama gave this a lot of thought. From my understanding and many news articles. You can do your own googling on it. I hear the farmers cannot give those jobs away and the farmers are talking about not planting for next year. So this is the big picture. Alabama will not only be losing revenue from the farmers but their price of produce will be going up in their area. I asked around here to find out what others would do. And they said produce is easy enough to find. Which means they will be buying produce and veggies from other countries. Most likely our nearest producing neighbor. Oh that is Mexico! Since this was done at picking time Alabama has been sending sos out everywhere to help get these farmers someone to pick this years crop. So John though I do agree with some of what you say I just don't understand why you think they are taking away something it seems no one really wants? And don't you really think that maybe this could have used a little more planning?

I wish you were right but do you realize how many people you'd put out of work in mexico given your scenario?
They can't afford to modernize their industry with the Best Available Technologies to control pollutions so the business there would have to close. Heck, imagine how many people in the USA would be below the poverty line too and w/o even considering how many business and industries would close there. wow

I don't have full knowledge of those laws but can imagine. The problem is palpable in those states since they border each other. I believe as an American I'd probably agree with those laws especially knowing how many of these people feel about us as a people. It's a pity we cannot all live together as one but the reality is all economics. I believe the best way to analyze this whole situation is to learn about their illegal aliens laws and we can see exactly what It is. Money talks and bs walks.

"It’s What They Asked For
Published: October 19, 2011
Alabama’s new anti-immigrant law, the nation’s harshest, went into effect last month (a few provisions have been temporarily blocked in federal court), and it is already reaping a bitter harvest of dislocation and fear. Hispanic homes are emptying, businesses are closing, employers are wondering where their workers have gone. Parents who have not yet figured out where to go are lying low and keeping children home from school.
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Alabama’s law is the biggest test yet for “attrition through enforcement,” a strategy espoused by Mr. Kobach and others to drive away large numbers of illegal immigrants without the hassle and expense of a police-state roundup.

All you have to do, they say, is make life hard enough and immigrants will leave on their own. In such a scheme, panic and fear are a plus; suffering is the point.......

The problems do not stop there. Farmers are already worrying that with the exodus, crops will go unpicked. Like much of the rest of the country, Alabama needs immigrant labor, because too many native-born citizens lack the skill, the stamina and the willingness to work in the fields — even in a time of steep unemployment.

The new law has also added frustrating layers of paperwork for Alabamans who must now prove legal status when enrolling schoolchildren, signing leases and interacting with government. After the law went into effect, the lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Birmingham grew so long that officials had to bring in portable toilets.

Alabama’s reputation has also taken a huge hit just when it is trying to lure international businesses. No matter how officials may try to tempt foreign automakers, say, with low taxes and wages, the state is already infamous as a regional capital of xenophobia.

If Alabama succeeds in driving out all of its estimated 120,000 unauthorized immigrants, restrictionists will surely cheer. They will have only 49 states and 11 million more people to go.

There is another more humane and realistic path in which immigrants could earn the right to stay — if Congress would accept its responsibility and move ahead with serious immigration reform.

America’s history shows that assimilation works better than deportation — for everyone. If first-generation immigrants don’t all learn English, their children and grandchildren invariably do. They may be poor, but their children grow up to be productive citizen taxpayers. Unless, of course, you frighten and oppress them, and forbid them to work, live and go to school.

Other states that are tempted to follow should look at what is happening in Alabama. Nobody is winning there. "

From the NY times


Again, I do not support illegal immigration.

I already know Spanglish but wait. I better finish my Italian courses, just in case.



Your military wiping out the drug cartels?
I would love to see that.