NBC Nightly News (10/7, story 3, 2:10, Williams) reported, "In this country, the Justice Department today asked a Federal appeals court to block Alabama's extremely tough new immigration law which took effect last week." The department argues that the "law invites discrimination against all foreign-born residents and they are especially worried about its effect on children." NBC (Sanders) added, "Alabama's farmers say" the law has "left the agriculture industry as the victims of unintended consequences," and "while they have all lost workers they are yet to see a rush to fill those jobs despite Alabama's 9.9% unemployment rate."
The Hill (10/8, Sink) reports in its "Blog Briefing Room" blog, "The law would allow authorities to question those suspected of being illegal immigrants and hold them in jail without bond. It also allows school officials to check the immigration status of students. The Department of Justice said in a release that these provisions 'conflict with federal immigration law and undermine the federal government's careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives.'"
Alabama Immigration Law Sparks Exodus Among Likely Targets.The Washington Post (10/9, Constable) says an Alabama law, "largely upheld last week by a federal district judge, seeks to drive illegal immigrants from the state by curtailing many of their rights, punishing anyone who knowingly employs, houses or assists them, and requiring schools and police to verify immigrants' legal status." The result is "panic and chaos among trailer parks and working-class areas where legal and illegal immigrant families from Mexico and Central America - as many as 150,000 people, by some estimates - live and work at jobs their bosses say local residents largely refuse to do. In Foley, a sprawling seaside resort town where hundreds of Hispanic immigrants work in restaurants, sod farms and seafood industries, many families last week were taking their children out of school, piling their furniture into trucks, offering baby clothes and bicycles on front lawns for sale and saying tearful goodbyes to neighbors and co-workers they might never see again."
Alabama DOE Officials Waiting On Data On Hispanic Student Attendance.The Decatur Daily (10/10, Ellington) reports on the "dramatic numbers" of Hispanic students who stayed away from Alabama schools last week, noting that "Alabama Department of Education spokeswoman Malissa Valdes said the state may not know for weeks how many of the absences were routine and how many were students who will not return. The department tracks Hispanic student enrollment and their excused and unexcused absences statewide each week." Meanwhile, "Acting state Superintendent of Education Larry Craven and principals around the state said they expect the decline in Hispanic students' attendance to continue."
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