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Eli Kantor is a labor, employment and immigration law attorney. He has been practicing labor, employment and immigration law for more than 36 years. He has been featured in articles about labor, employment and immigration law in the L.A. Times, Business Week.com and Daily Variety. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Journal. Telephone (310)274-8216; eli@elikantorlaw.com. For more information, visit beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com and and beverlyhillsemploymentlaw.com

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Thank You, Mercedes

The Decatur Daily (Editorial): The people of our once-hospitable state should send a thank-you card to the Mercedes Benz executive arrested Friday for violation of the immigration law.

The German did more to demonstrate the idiocy of the immigration law in one day than the law's opponents have managed in months.

We are guessing that Gov. Robert Bentley has placed no urgent phone calls on behalf of Hispanics whose families were split up by the law. We seriously doubt he contacted any Hispanic children to reassure them that their non-citizen parents would not be deported just because they attended school.

He has made no apologies to employers who have lost skilled Hispanic workers because they or their family members feared arrest or deportation.

Yet he wasted no time calling the state's homeland security director after the arrest of the Mercedes executive in Tuscaloosa.

The drafters of the law were targeting a stereotype, not humans. They could not dismiss their stereotypes as long as those suffering from the law were Hispanic. Throw in a wealthy Caucasian from Germany, though, and the law's ugliness became apparent.

House Majority Leader Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, and state Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, created a vicious and unworkable law. It is time for the people of Alabama to renounce the law and demand its repeal.

1 comment:

cail said...

They were so strict but they need to do this for the country's security and safetyness.


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