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Alabama’s tough law on illegal immigration has been made effective starting Thursday as a federal judge upheld a lot of its major requirements, but as things stand the court battle is anything but over.
According to the new law people who enter the country illegally can now be detained and questioned without bond and as far as students are concerned the public schools will verify their immigration status.
The Justice Department, civil rights groups and some Alabama churches had filed a law suit to stop the new rule from taking effect but Sharon Blackburn the U.S District Judge upheld it.
Governor Robert Bentley said “With those parts that were upheld, we have the strongest law in the country, we intend to enforce it.”
Civil right groups and Huntsville Police Chief Mark Hudson called the new law unclear and called for it to be stopped from taking effect and he also added that his police department would not make obligatory the new rule up until Alabama’s City attorney gets a chance to pore over the ruling.
The Legal Advisor at ACLU Alabama Allison Neal said ”The requirement that employers demand documentation from anyone they suspect of working illegally is likely to result in systematic racial profiling of anyone who looks or sounds foreign,”
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