Above is today's headline at Huffington Post Politics. Leave it to Alabama to be so short-sighted and mean-spirited. I have boycotted Arizona since their immigration bill was signed into law. I even skipped last year's BCS Championship game because it was played in Arizona. I can't boycott the state in which I live so I will support the Southern Poverty Law Center in their efforts to fight this in court.
Signed by Robert Bentley, dermatologist and governor, the law goes farther than Arizona's law:
1. Prohibits the transporting and housing on undocumented residents
***Alabama does not require a person to provide papers to get a driver's license and transport themselves, however.
2. Requires schools to check for citizenship
*** even though undocumented children, by law, are allowed to attend school K-12
3. Police can request legal papers if person is *suspected* to be in the country illegally
*** remember the saying, "serve and protect"
Apparently, Bentley's plan for jobs was only meant for some of the residents (maybe only his "brothers and sisters" in Christ) and not for others. In fact, the plan appears to be at the expense and well-being of others.
Did Alabama learn nothing from their not so distant past? Alabamians can comfort themselves in whatever reasoning that helps them sleep at night but bigotry is still bigotry. There ain't nothing 'Christian' about that, Dr. Bentley.
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