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Alabama Considers Revision of Immigration Law Ensnaring Mercedes Executive
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 28, 2011 06:26pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Elizabeth Dwoskin |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company’s manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a rental car without a tag.
The police officer asked the man for his license, but the only paperwork he had with him was a German I.D. card. Anywhere else in the nation, the cop might have issued the man a citation. Not in Alabama, where a strict new law requires police to look into the immigration status of people detained for routine traffic violations. Because the man couldn’t prove he had the right to be in the U.S., he was arrested and hauled off to the police station.
“I was really embarrassed and overwhelmed,” says state Senator Gerald Dial. “Mercedes has done more to change the image of Alabama than just about anything else. We don’t want to upset those people.”
Dial, who voted for the law in June along with every other Republican legislator but one, started having second thoughts soon after the statute went into effect in late September. |
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