“Alabama lawmakers voted today (Thursday) to amend HB-56, the controversial immigration bill that has made our state the focal point of the national immigration debate for the past eight months or so. Lawmakers claim that the new version of the bill is constitutional and does more to protect human rights by removing controversial sections such as the clause that would force schools to run background checks on students. However, the law is still the toughest on immigrant rights in the nation.
“But no matter what your opinion on the rights of illegal immigrants is, there is logical reason that every Alabama citizen should speak up to oppose this law: simple economics. No matter which way you look at it, hard economic facts indicate that enforcing HB-56 is only going to push the growth of the Alabama economy further behind the rest of the nation…”
