Posted on 11/21/2011 11:07:28 AM PST by Mikey_1962
Unemployment rates have fallen in Alabama amid new legal pressure on companies to comply with a popular immigration reform law.
September was the first full month that the reform was in force, and the unemployment rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, according to a Nov. 18 report from the state government.
The rates fell from 9.9 percent to 9 percent in Etowah County, from 8.8 percent to 8.1 percent in Marshall county, and from 11.6 percent to 10.6 percent in DeKalb county.
“The latest fall in unemployment numbers is proof that American citizens will work, and continues to solidify [the evidence] that self-deportation [by illegal immigrants] due to the Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen’s Protection Act is occurring,” said Chuck Ellis, a city council member in Albertville — the main town in Marshall County, northern Alabama.
Since the law’s bipartisan approval in June, it has been furiously criticized by progressives, including leaders in ethnic interest groups, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez and other leading officials in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. These critics say the law’s implementation violates civil rights.
Hispanic lobbies are an important force in the Democratic Party, partly because they promise to rally a large slice of the nation’s varied Hispanic voters to back President Obama in 2012.
The federal government sued the state, but persuaded a judge only to partially delay implementation of the law. Supporters of the reform expect additional lawsuits from the federal government.
All were Hispanic who left and alll Anglos who took their lobs
This must all be lies.
I’ve been told all my life that Americans are too lazy to do the jobs illegal immigrants are doing....hmmmm, I was also told Obama would stop the rise of the oceans.
I heard that Americans are lazy and don’t want to work. /s
Success that will be overlooked by the MSM and the RINOcrats.
I don’t care if the Hispanics or Anglos get the jobs, as long as they are here legally.
imagine that! when the millions of illegals are not taking all the jobs... suddenly, there are plenty of jobs!
It is poor whites and blacks who get punched in the gut when illegals steal their jobs and big corps and businesses screw them over for cheaper, more obedient labor.
And yet we still have the MSM telling us the democrats are for the little guy and against big business....
It is poor whites and blacks who get punched in the gut when illegals steal their jobs and big corps and businesses screw them over for cheaper, more obedient labor.
And yet we still have the MSM telling us the democrats are for the little guy and against big business....
There are no legal Guatemalans in lower Alabama. That is the demographic of those who left.
We have E-verify so they had a real birth date and SS# but since they spoke dialectic Mayan and are no longer living here, it is reasonable to conclude their legal status.
Bump.
Exactly.
Here in Georgia, the veggie and fruit farmers initially claimed to have lost %700,000.
After a week or so of retelling, it had swelled to $7 million.
After a couple more weeks, it was $70 million, and reported by Reuters (I think) as $700 million.
Of course, the entire ag output of Georgia is about $1.4 billion.
I call horsepucky on those “losses”.
This begs another question: WHAT SORT OF IDIOTIC GOVERNMENT ALLOWS ANY SORT OF IMMIGRATION (LEGAL OR OTHERWISE) WHILE UNEMPLOYMENT IS ABOUT 10%?
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