Arizona, eat your heart out
(NEWSER) - Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 law has nothing on the sweeping law Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed yesterday. HB 56 prevents illegal immigrants from going to college, applying for jobs, or renting apartments, the LA Times reports. It requires anyone registering to vote to pass a citizenship check. And, like Arizona’s law, it requires police to check suspects’ immigration status if there’s a “reasonable suspicion” they’re an immigrant. In addition, K-12 teachers are required to determine which students are illegal immigrants, though only for statistical purposes. More»
