Harsh Alabama Immigration Law Has Unintended Consequences

[Tx4obama]

Alabama has perhaps the strictest anti-immigration law in the nation.

Alabama’s law makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to buy a house, pay a utility bill or sign a contract. It also penalizes those who employ them, allows police to ask drivers at roadside checkpoints or routine traffic stops about their immigration status and requires schools to ask about the legal status of all new students.

Many undocumented workers are gone.

Nevertheless, a variety of employers in Alabama said they have not been able to find enough legal residents to replace the seasoned Hispanic field pickers, drywall hangers, landscapers and poultry workers who fled the state. There was an initial rush of job applications, they said, but many new employees quit or were let go.

http://www.alan.com/2012/06/17/harsh-alabama-immigration-law-has-unintended-consequences/

[dkf]

1. They need to raise wages to attract employees. Good.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. "They need to raise wages"

I think Alamabama wants to reinstate slavery!

[pretzel4gore]

4. actually, it was slavery (unpaid forced labour) that killed the Confederacy

as you know, economics/politics are often so turned around, the truth gets easily left out of story. The 'south' demanded not only that slavery, or 'forced labour' be allows in the south, but also that border states ENFORCE the laws (because otherwise, vast numbers of slaves just run away) which meant free state whites found themselves policing for the south-and that meant their own children were compteteing with free (forced' slave labour). Iow, whites became slaves too! i mean, how do you compete against unpaid workers? Most of the south wagon teamsters were slaves by time of civil war, a white man just couldn't get a job!
weirdly, slavery would have been better for blacks-they eventually (by 1900) tottally contrrol the south's economy!
lol

[Tx4obama]

3. Check out comment #2 on the link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=46661