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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Mercedes Exec Busted by Alabama Law

Politico: A German car executive is among the latest to be charged under the Alabama law targeting illegal immigrants after he was stopped by police and could not produce proper identification.

The 46-year-old Mercedes-Benz manager was stopped last week for not having a tag on his rental vehicle, the AP reports. Since he only had a German identification card, and not his passport or driver's license, he was arrested and charged under the immigration law that some have called the strictest in the country.

The executive was released after an associate retrieved his passport, visa and German driver's license from his hotel, said Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson, according to the AP.

The case drew the attention of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, who signed the illegal immigration law earlier this year and who made inquiries about the details of the arrest.

Mercedes-Benz builds sport-utility vehicles at a manufacturing plant east of Tuscaloosa, its first assembly plant in the United States.

A Mercedes-Benz spokeswoman told the AP that the man is from Germany and was visiting the state for business purposes.

The new Alabama law, parts of which are currently on hold due to legal review, requires police and certain government officials to demand proof of legal status if they have "reasonable suspicion" that an individual is in the country illegally. The Department of Justice is suing Alabama over the law.

As in this case, the immigration law passed in June requires police to arrest anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigration if the subject cannot produce proper identification.

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