Alabama Tries To Make Bad Immigration Law Worse

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• by Jessica Pieklo

Under national scrutiny and with a pending Supreme Court review of similar legislation in Arizona, an Alabama House committee voted to revise and strengthen the state’s controversial immigration law.

The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved changes to the “papers please” bill on a party line vote with the bill going to a full floor vote in the House of Representatives as soon as Thursday.
Among the changes that passed is a provision that specifies that an officer can quiz and possibly detain vehicle passengers about their citizenship. Another proposed change allows officers to question and possibly detain a suspected undocumented immigrant when issuing a traffic citation or making an arrest. The current law allows the questioning to commence only during traffic “stops.”........  more