USA Today: Alabama's controversial new immigration law prompted a large medical association to cancel its 2013 convention in Mobile, Ala. out of fear of members' safety, Mobile's Press-Register reported recently.
The Battle House Renaissance Hotel estimated the conference to be worth about $100,000 in business, hotel general manager Margo Gilbert told the Press-Register. The group would have booked around 500 to 600 room nights.
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine represents about 140 family medicine departments at medical schools across the USA.
They pulled out, according to the Press-Register, because the law created an atmosphere in which some members - particularly Latino members - didn't feel safe.
Allen Perkins, a doctor and the chairman of University of South Alabama College of Medicine Family Medicine Department, told the Press-Register:
"We had people who felt they would not be able to jog without identification if they did not appear to be American."
The convention would have injected an overall amount of about $700,000, the article says, citing the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau's estimate.
A University of Alabama analysis of the effects of the bill says that costs would outweigh potential benefits, reducing statewide economic output by $11 billion, the Press-Register says.
David Bronner, head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama - the hotel's owner - told the paper that the group's cancellation is only the latest fallout from last year's passage of HB 56.
The Battle House Renaissance Hotel estimated the conference to be worth about $100,000 in business, hotel general manager Margo Gilbert told the Press-Register. The group would have booked around 500 to 600 room nights.
The Association of Departments of Family Medicine represents about 140 family medicine departments at medical schools across the USA.
They pulled out, according to the Press-Register, because the law created an atmosphere in which some members - particularly Latino members - didn't feel safe.
Allen Perkins, a doctor and the chairman of University of South Alabama College of Medicine Family Medicine Department, told the Press-Register:
"We had people who felt they would not be able to jog without identification if they did not appear to be American."
The convention would have injected an overall amount of about $700,000, the article says, citing the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau's estimate.
A University of Alabama analysis of the effects of the bill says that costs would outweigh potential benefits, reducing statewide economic output by $11 billion, the Press-Register says.
David Bronner, head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama - the hotel's owner - told the paper that the group's cancellation is only the latest fallout from last year's passage of HB 56.
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