Alabama Passes Mandatory E-Verify & Immigration Enforcement Bill

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/ne...ment-bill.html

An Alabama House and Senate conference committee agreed on a new bill, which both chambers have already passed, that requires the use of E-Verify by all businesses in the state and includes several immigration enforcement provisions. Should Gov. Robert Bentley sign the bill into law, it would become one of the largest state crackdowns on illegal immigration in the country.

The bill requires all businesses, public and private, to begin using E-Verify effective April 1, 2012. Businesses that do not comply face suspension of its business license and loss of employee expensing for state income tax purposes. All state and local businesses must be in compliance by Jan. 1, 2012 or face loss of business license and contract.

The bill calls for assisting small business compliance with the E-Verify requirement by establishing an E-Verify designated agent that can check new hires on the behalf of businesses that employ fewer than 25 employees.

Other provisions within the bill include:

• Creates an affirmative defense against business penalties if E-Verify is used. Prohibits lawsuits against businesses that fire an employee due to an E-Verify final non-confirmation determination;

•Require state and local governments to use the SAVE system to verify public-benefits eligibility for those attesting to be non-citizens;

• Creates a misdemeanor for failure to carry an alien registration document;

• Requires police, after a lawful stop and when practicable, to check a person’s immigration status if the officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person is illegally present. Provides 4th amendment protections and stays the status-check requirement for persons who are crime victims or witnesses;

• Creates misdemeanors for seeking day-laborer work when illegal present and hiring illegally-present day laborers. Creates misdemeanors for aiding and abetting illegal aliens; Ban illegal aliens from state universities and colleges;

• Prohibits sanctuary policies and provides non-compliance penalties;

• Requires the Attorney General to apply for a 287(g) MOU for state police;

• Creates a crime for producing fake IDs; and

• Requires elementary and secondary schools to request a birth certificate for all enrolling students and to determine whether such children were born outside of the U.S. or are children of illegal aliens requiring English-as-a-Second-language classes. Requires the collection of statistics and a determination of the costs related to illegal-alien students.

Dear god!!! Well whats expected out of stupid Alabama and jeff session...

Just look at there dam history as a state...

Note to self: Avoid Alabama.

These are some frightening things to read. Particularly the last parts, it's like something that was done in Nazi Germany, where they restricted Jews from schools and universities. They want to make public schools I.C.E.; where a school's primary objective should be to teach not enforce immigration laws. I feel terrible for all our undocumented comrades. It's getting tougher to live in the red states.

How is this like Nazi Germany? The Jews were German citizens who's rights were been violated. Illegal immigrants have broken US immigration laws, so in order to make it less attactive for illegals many states are trying to remove things that get them to come and bring their children. Years ago illegal immigrants who were mostly from Mexico didn't bring wives and children and the US had bascially a catch and release policy, meaning when a illegal immigrant was caught, they went to court and was given a order to come to court for trial at a later date. Oddly enough most never showed up to court and generally left town. Gee, wonder why?
Now that is no longer the case and now more likely then not any illegal immigrant will be detain and held and most likely deported to their home country.
I think that is a major difference between Nazi Germany which committed genocide of the Jews and mass murder in general and the US and state governments trying to end illegal immigration by ending anything that entices them in the first place and deporting them to their home country.

6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany, I don't see 6 million illegal immigrants being killed by the US or state governments.

You completely misconstrued my comment. I said it was something like out of Nazi Germany where they took an extreme step in 1933 to restrict Jews out of schools and universities; negating them the ability to further education. It was discriminatory and what Alabama is doing is having a discriminatory policy because education should be open to all residents, legal and not legal.

I never said we are being put into concentration camps and put to death. I don't understand where you got that idea from.

You want to ‘disincentivise’ immigrants from staying then get rid of the 10yr ban. PERIOD!

All you want is a dumb sub-class of human beings to take advantage of.

Man, I can’t wait till one of these immigrant kids finds a cure for cancer or something and if this happens you should do the ‘noble’ thing when you get sick and not accept medication created by an illegal!!!

It isn't but it's a good start that will lead into that. People never learn and history always tend to repeat itself which would ultimately lead into our country's collapse.

OMG.... I am currently attending university in Alabama... Does that mean I'm going to be banned in 2012? WTF am I going to do now?

I just read this in the paper. I can only imagine what families in Alabama will be going through. Hopefully the Obama administration challenges this law, because it is by far the scariest law.

We've had e-verify in Az since '08 it is extremely difficult to find a job.