Thread: AL: Immigration panel gets an earful from each side

Immigration panel getsan earful from each side
CHALLEN STEPHENS

Mood gets heated as full house hears varying opinions

As police tried to quiet the taunts, the first Hispanic speaker of the night continued to argue that undocumented workers aren’t criminals, that there were more worthy topics for statewide study.

But after an hour of hearing just the opposite, after hearing a series of speakers suggest everything from illegal immigrants drive down working wages to they spread leprosy, the audience loudly objected.

More than 270 people had packed the second public meeting of the Joint Interim Patriotic Immigration Commission, a 21-member panel created in September to advise the state Legislature on what to do about illegal immigration.

Lining the walls inside the Great Hall of the Huntsville Art Museum, several booed. Others jeered. “It’s time to go,â€

As police tried to quiet the taunts, the first Hispanic speaker of the night continued to argue that undocumented workers aren’t criminals, that there were more worthy topics for statewide study.

So the people should waste more tax dollars on a statewide study? A statewide study to show what? How many illegals live there? How much tax money they are using? SHEESH!