SI! YO HABER EL: "AQUI TIENE MI PASAPORTE"! (682 hits)
The Spanish phrase above is rendered in English: "Yes! I have it. Here is my passport". Because many Hispanics immigrants could not comply with an authority's request of the nature above, or fear it will be askd of them, since the Alabama law has become enforceable, many state Hispanics live in hourly trepidation of being deported. Alabama jurisdiction to enforce immigration laws is being challenged on the constitutional grounds of encroaching on a federal right reserved to the federal government-not a state's right and power to enforce our country' immigration laws.
The issue is being heard by the U.S. 11th Circuit of Appeals in Atlanta to decide the issue. Alabama is under wide criicism for its enforcement as of September first an immigration by the Governor and other state officials as being the toughest in the nation. In some cases improperly documented aiens of Hispanic origin are being singled out law enforcement-some call racial profiling-even if there is only the suspicion of illegal status. Hispanic residents have been frightened to leave homes, occupations of poultry tending, farm locations-fieldss left with unpicked fruits and vegetables, left unpicked to go to ruin; children withdrawn from schools; in some cases been arrested after raids were carried out at their places of employment, pulled over in taffic-pulled over for verification of their legal right to be present in the United States. The law requires all immigrants to carry on their persons documents authorities may ask for to show to autenticate alien status. Failure to carry such documentation is a misdemeanor offense. No documentation is a ground for immediate DEPORTATION! Legal scholars including the ALCU claim the enforcement tactics used by its authorities to enforce compliance cross the bar.
Still, I wonder how many readers are aware October is National Hispanic Pride Month?
