Alabama: Suit Fights Immigration LawBy JULIA PRESTON
Civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit on Friday against a new state law that cracks down on illegal immigration, saying it would violate the constitutional rights of United States citizens. The law, which supporters described as the toughest of its kind in the nation, requires public schools to report students’ immigration status, makes it a crime to give a ride to an illegal immigrant and bars all contracts with those immigrants. “This law revisits the state’s painful racial past,” said Mary Bauer, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the groups bringing the suit.
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