Alabama bosses going to school to learn immigration law

By BOB JOHNSON
Associated Press


Published: Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 10:06 p.m.

DOTHAN — Alabama’s new immigration law brings with it mounds of paperwork and lots of red tape for businesses that want to make sure their employees are properly documented.

The headaches come for all businesses, big and small.

Paige Gray, office manager at Ken Cox Ford in Troy, said she knows her company’s 24 employees are in compliance, but she will go through their paperwork item by item to make sure. She said employees are already required to fill out forms called I-9s to confirm their immigration status.

“I am going to check through all their forms and make sure they are safe,â€