Feb 3, 2012
IN AN article I wrote last week on Alabama's immigration law, I referred to Samuel Addy, an economist at the University of Alabama who was trying to determine the overall costs of the law. Mr Addy has just released his cost-benefit analysis, and it makes for compelling—and, at nine...
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Despite his claim that HB 56 "is a jobs bill" that would free up hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans once immigrants self-deported, there's been no evidence that the immigration law has contributed to the state's lowered unemployment rate, and no job growth in immigrant-heavy sectors like agriculture...
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Alabama's tough immigration legislation could cost the state as much as $11 billion in economic output and another $264.5 million in tax revenue, according to a new analysis by an economist at the University of Alabama.
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More on Alabama and the HB 56 anti-immigrant law today: This American Life at NPR radio has a great broadcast entitled "Reap What You Sow" – a comprehensive story about life in Alabama under HB 56.
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Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport." And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama...but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.
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It's been a little while since we've mentioned Alabama's HB 56, the harshest state immigration law in the land. With the state legislature coming back into session February 7, however, will come renewed attempts to repeal this terrible law. And boy, are there reasons to push repeal.
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State Sen. Scott Beason lives in a strange world. I'm not talking about Gardendale, where the Republican lives. I mean the world of Beason's mind. In Beason's world, a part-time lawmaker with few marketable skills deserves a $53,000-per-year salary, far more than the average Alabama citizen makes.
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Jan 27, 2012
ALABAMA'S immigration law, boasted Micky Hammon, an Alabama legislator and one of its co-authors, "attacks every aspect of an illegal immigrant's life. They will not stay in Alabama…This bill is designed to make it difficult for them to live here so they will deport themselves."
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The House Economic Development and Tourism Committee on Thursday previewed new legislation that would help industry recruiters, but the committee also heard that the state's anti-immigration law is being used against them by other states.
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"This is a jobs bill," they said. "This is a jobs-creation bill for Americans," they said. Such were the arguments that Alabama Senator Scott Beason (R) and Rep. Micky Hammon (R) made last year before passing their notoriously anti-immigrant state law, HB 56.
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