Hispanics in southern Indiana fear bill targeting undocumented immigrants

March 27, 2011

Ben Zion Hershberg

Raul Avila’s family has run a Mexican grocery and restaurant in Clarksville for the past five years, building a livelihood on supplying familiar foods and brands to the area’s many Hispanics.

But Avila worries his family could lose that business if the Indiana legislature passes a bill requiring police to verify the citizenship or immigration status of people they stop and suspect may be illegal immigrants.

Such a law would “really affect all the Hispanic business,â€