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
