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Alabama Wins in Ruling on Its Immigration Law
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Immigration; Posted on: 2012-07-13 17:18:44 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Alabama citizens say no to Third World.
A federal judge on Wednesday upheld most of the sections of Alabama’s far-reaching immigration law that had been challenged by the Obama administration, including portions that had been blocked in other states.
The decision, by Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn of Federal District Court in Birmingham, makes it much more likely that the fate of the recent flurry of state laws against illegal immigration will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. It also means that Alabama now has by far the strictest such law of any state.
“Today Judge Blackburn upheld the majority of our law,” Gov. Robert
Bentley said in a brief statement he delivered outside the State Capitol
in Montgomery. “With those parts that were upheld, we have the
strongest immigration law in the country.”
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News Source: NYTimes.com
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