The People of Alabama are challenging the new immigration law by engaging in civil disobedience including giving rides to undocumented immigrants, renting housing to them & preparing their federal tax returns.
Federal District Judge Thomas Thrash has criticized portions of Georgia's new immigration law declaring them unconstitutional. A similar law failed to pass in Florida.
According to Gabriela Garcia "The two parts of the law that were barred... (in Georgia) are a requirement that police officers verify the immigration status of someone who does not provide identification and a measure that made it illegal to “transport” an undocumented immigrant."
Georgia & Alabama are both in the 11th Circuit. Because the Alabama & Georgia laws are carbon copies of the Arizona law, any criticism of the Georgia law by a Federal District Judge in the 11th Circuit will weaken the Alabama law before it is reviewed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
Stand with your fellow champions of Human Rights by signing this petition that you will engage in civil disobedience & give civil rights lawyers such as those at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama the grounds to fight this unconstitutional and embarassing state law in Federal Court.
If we don't fight this embarrassing & racist law, moderate businesses will pull jobs out of Alabama & conventions will stop coming here. Crops will rot in the fields. Grocery prices will increase & tax revenues will fall adding to the existing economic devastation.
Robby Scott Hill
(1) The president is a gifted orator who has failed to use those skills to communicate boldly with the American people; (2) The president is a constitutional scholar who has failed to stand up for fundamental matters of justice.Read more at:
David Axelrod, a top campaign advisor to President Obama, led the charge over the weekend, calling S&P’s action “essentially a tea party downgrade.”
“The tea party brought us to the brink of default,” Axelrod said. “It was the right thing to do to avoid that default. It was the wrong thing to do to push the country to that point."
* U.S. Magistrate Wallace Capel, who ruled on several key pre-trial issues, has never been a member of the Alabama State Bar, and therefore is not eligible to serve as a federal magistrate judge in our state. The record and the law on this could not be more clear, but lawyers from neither side have made it an issue. The mainstream media, as usual, has not bothered to report the story.Legal Schnauzer: Is Our Country Rotting From the Inside Out?
