I posted the above image to avoid the feeling of stupidity I would surely feel had I said those words myself.
Posted on 06/04/2011 11:52:57 PM PDT by Nachum
The governor of Alabama is taking the weekend to decide whether he will sign an Arizona-style bill into law to crack down on illegal immigrants.
If Gov. Robert Bentley gives his stamp of approval to the controversial legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union has vowed to challenge it in court.
"It's an outrageous throwback to the pre-civil rights era and we call on Governor Bentley to veto this deeply misguided bill," Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, said Friday. "The Alabama Legislature has invited rank discrimination into people's everyday lives,"
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.
Like 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.
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yeehaw, “throwback” time (funny the folks who don’t want America to be exceptional want it to be the exception to the world rule that you police your borders as best you can).
Well said.
The American Civil Liberties Union is going to stop Alabama from complying with Federal Law? Really.
I doubt it will get far, but then again the Feds and State of AZ are in the 9th Circuit Court right now. Their dispute may make it all the way to the Supreme Court.
I posted the above image to avoid the feeling of stupidity I would surely feel had I said those words myself.
How is it possible for us to stop funding the ACLU? I am so sick of these damn ILLEGALS stealing my money.
Is it true that the ACLU gets free funding to challenge things in court? If so, why?
Bentley needs to sign the bill. He will be in a heap of trouble if he doesn’t. Alabama is not in the 9th District so they are not an issue here.
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