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    ALA: Hundreds rally against immigration bill

    Hundreds rally against immigration bill
    Posted: Mar 10, 2011 6:50 PM CST Updated: Mar 10, 2011 6:50 PM CST


    Many immigrants rallied outside the Statehouse Thursday to protest house bill 56. It's one of several that would make it illegal to work without proper documentation.

    Member of the Hispanic community stood together in Montgomery and asked lawmakers to reconsider the immigration bill. They fear that it will break up families.

    Tuscaloosa High School Senior Nanah Zuniga is Alabama.
    "This is home for us. I'm an American," she said.

    But her parents aren't.

    "If the law passes, they will take away my parents. And I have a brother and sister, and they'd be my responsibility," she said.

    Zuniga and others held signs saying, "everyone is equal in God's eyes." But they know others don't see it that way.

    "It keeps me up at night worrying about whether I will see my friends the next day," said John Skeen of Hayden who has Hispanic friends.

    House bill 56 would require status checks for employees, allow police officers to inquire about that status, and make it unlawful to transport an illegal immigrant.

    "A state solution is not the answer. This puts an undue and unfunded mandate on local enforcement to enforce federal immigration law, which is beyond their scope of duty," said Isabel Rubio of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama.

    Senator Scott Beason, (R) Gardendale, is sponsoring a similar senate bill. He believes the state has to act because thousands of jobs and millions of dollars are lost to illegal immigrants.

    "The federal government has failed in its job. It's job is to protect the states and protect the border. And it has failed at it for two, three decades. States have things it can do," said Beason.

    But many fear taxpaying workers will become criminals.

    "It would destroy our lives if this was passed," said Zuniga.

    The bill was supposed to be discussed in the House. However, a filibuster on another bill prevented it from being introduced.

    http://www.abc3340.com/Global/story.asp?S=14229966

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    House bill 56 would require status checks for employees, allow police officers to inquire about that status, and make it unlawful to transport an illegal immigrant.
    A wonderful Bill, pass it into law.

    All States should adopt Bill 56, so we Americans can get this Country back on track.

    Thank God someone has came up with a Legislation that will work to benefit the entire Country, if all States will use Bill 56 and sign it into law.
    When you aid and support criminals, you live a criminal life style yourself:

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    "If the law passes, they will take away my parents. And I have a brother and sister, and they'd be my responsibility," she said.
    I believe that a family should stay together, with the parents.

    This bill is going to pass, they can stamp their feet all they want.
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    Have a family reunion in Mexico on us, all of you, can you spell I C E? Hundred attended this? Wow, they must all be illegals. Pretty scary.

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    They have taken over most of the flea markets in AL on weekends, they look Mexican mercados. They have their booths set up and sell their knock off merchandise for "cash only" just like at home. One group runs a perpetual vegetable stand complete with a metal frame cover and display racks. Another group had tables of black market CDs, then there are the canned food booths etc. did I mention that there baby stollers everywhere?

    I went to one a couple of weeks ago and a woman that didn't speak English rushed up to me and started shoving a box of candy at me say "chocolata, chocolata. I haven't had that happen to me since the last time I was in Juarez.

    They don't pay taxes and I will bet that the women I saw selling at the flea market were using the old WIC card at the Kroger.

    The bill is going to pass, they are a burden on the economy.
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    They have taken over most of the flea markets in AL on weekends, they look Mexican mercados.
    where do you live at in Alabama? i live in mobile and the flea market here is sorta like that.
    p.s. she was most likely saying "chocolate" which is spelled the same but just pronounced differently

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    She was saying chocolate, but pronouncing it Choco la ta (Spanish for chocolate pronounced cho-co-LA-tay). I asked her if she spoke Engish and she said no and I told her to vamanos.

    I live in North Alabama. The flea market that they call Mountaintop, somewhere near here has been completely taken over by the illegals. If you go somewhere and the adults in their 20's and 30's don't speak English, it is a pretty good bet that they are illegal. JMO

    The flea market that I went is Lacon. When my daughter said something to the guy that runs it about not coming back because of all of the illegals, he said "its money and they have it to spend", which is the attitude that is contibuting to this mess.

    From Lacon, we moved over tho the indoor flea market in Hartselle, AL . The first person I saw was a man wearing a Tshirt that said "I am PERFECT and I am MEXICAN" across the back in about 5 inch letters. I had my doubts about his legality immediately. After dodging more strollers, some doubles, we left.

    People that don't care about the burden that they put on thier neighbors, the tax burden that they put on the state that they live in, the education burden that is put on the schools, they only care about putting more in their pockets at the espense of everyone else. It will bite them in the butt longterm but they are just too dumb, arrogant or greedy to care.

    Our illegals prefer to work for cash and the employers don't pay employment taxes, they get welfare for the kids, use the hospitals like free clinics, and set up little cash businesses to sell to each other. They do not contribute to the financial welfare of the state, they are a drain.

    Multiply this by 20 to 30 million and we have an economic crisis.

    Since AZ started coming down on them, they are starting to pile into states that don't have laws to protect themselves from them economically. The legislatures are getting laws on the books fast and if they are not, they should be.

    I believe H56 bill will pass.
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    if they are rallying against it, it must be a good bill to get them on the move

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    Alabama governor proposes budget sacrifices
    By PHILLIP RAWLS
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    updated 3/2/2011 8:53:21 AM ET 2011-03-02T13:53:21

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama's new governor used his first address to the Legislature on Tuesday to outline extensive sacrifices that he said everyone from public employees to tourist attractions must make to stop state government from spending millions it doesn't have.

    Gov. Robert Bentley unveiled his budget plans for 2012 one day after he announced cuts in the budgets he inherited from Republican Gov. Bob Riley due to appropriations exceeding state revenue.

    "In the budget I am presenting, there will be sacrifices. There are losses. But it's what we must do to maintain and sustain a budget that taxpayers can afford," Bentley said in his first State of the State speech.

    The Republican governor said the broad cuts will allow the state to focus its limited money on essential services of state government, including maintaining the current number of teaching jobs, keeping the student-teacher ratio at its current size, and holding the school year at its current length.

    Legislators had been concerned they would be asked to cut jobs and shorten the school year because of Alabama's recession-riddled economy.

    "If he's able to put a budget together that maintains the teachers' jobs and the school year, that will be quite an achievement," said Democratic Rep. Richard Lindsey of Centre, who led the House's education budget committee before Republicans won control in the November election.

    Bentley, a former two-term legislator, ran for governor with the support of the Alabama Education Association, but he laid out budget plans for education employees and state workers to pay more for their health insurance and retirement benefits. He also proposed budget cuts as deep as 45 percent over two years for many state agencies not involved with social services or prisons, which will likely lead to layoffs.

    Bentley also proposed eliminating benefits that state employees and school workers get for deferring their retirement, and he recommended ending state funding for dozens of tourist attractions, museums and halls of fame that he said are not essential functions of government.

    "Living within the flimsy outlines of an unrealistic budget has caught up with us. We have avoided making decisions for too long. Taxpayers deserve better," Bentley said.

    Bentley, a former Tuscaloosa physician, said the budget cuts will allow Alabama to increase funding for Medicaid and keep prisons and other law enforcement functions operating at levels necessary for public safety.

    "Historical sites, tourist attractions and halls of fame are wonderful for tourism and travel, and I want you all to visit them. But they are not as important as providing health care to low-income children and elderly or keeping state troopers on the road," he said.

    Despite cuts for public employees and some programs, Bentley's proposed budgets increase spending on education from $5.3 billion this year to $5.5 billion next year and on non-education programs from $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. But that increase is more than eaten up by his extra $302 million for Medicaid to keep services at their present levels.

    House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, worked with Bentley on his budget plan and predicted it will have strong support in the Legislature.

    "It's very conservative and responsible, but it's also compassionate," Hubbard said.

    Randy Hillman, executive director of the Alabama District Attorneys Association, said Bentley's proposed budget could lead to 200 layoffs in prosecutors' offices and lengthen the time it takes to get cases to trial.

    House Minority Leader Craig Ford, D-Gadsden, said Democrats would fight Bentley's plan to have public employees pay more for their retirement benefits. "We're going to stand up for teachers in this state," he said.

    Bentley ran on a platform of not accepting a salary until Alabama's 9.1 percent unemployment rate drops to a normal level. To help accomplish that goal, he proposed a one-time tax credit for businesses that create jobs, more money for training workers for new industries, and additional research funding for universities that he said could lead to more jobs.

    "Today, I truly believe our state is on the verge of dramatic change. Jobs are coming to Alabama," he said.

    Bentley told legislators he would support their efforts to pass legislation allowing Alabamians to opt out of the federal health care plan and to toughen the laws on illegal immigration.

    "Send me the bill. I will sign it,"


    The only time Bentley varied from his prepared text about budgetary sacrifices was when he talked about his commitment to visit the families of all Alabama military who are killed.

    Bentley, a former Army physician, quit looking at his TelePrompTer and started recounting two visits he has made in his first 1½ months in office. Emotion showed on his face as he described saluting a 22-year-old in a casket.

    "Let me tell you, that's the ultimate sacrifice," he said as legislators and others responded with a standing ovation.

    National Guard Spec. Carter Patterson, the son of state Rep. Jim Patterson, R-Huntsville, joined in the applause.

    "It really touched me that our governor thinks so much of soldiers," he said.

    Associated Press writer Bob Johnson contributed to this report.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41866510
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    can the governor not sign an executive order and deem anyone illegally in the US not welcome in alabama and giving the police the right to arrest anyone

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