Jan Brewer Heads To Alabama Where She Can Witness Her Cruel Vision for Immigration Control in Action

[pampango]

http://americasvoiceonline.org/blog/entry/gov._jan_brewer_honored_in_AL_immigration_control_in_action/

Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona heads to Alabama today to be the keynote speaker at the Alabama Federation of Republican Women dinner in Huntsville and, presumably, to reiterate her recent support for Alabama and Arizona’s anti-immigration laws.

According to the Arizona Republic, Governor Brewer has an upcoming memoir about her experiences passing Arizona’s anti-immigration law and asserts in the book that, “Arizona's crisis is coming to the rest of America. In fact, it's already here." We agree – like Arizona, Alabama already is experiencing devastating consequences for its reputation and economy. Unlike Arizona, key provisions of the Alabama law have actually gone into effect.

Unlike the loud and proud Arizona governor, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) recently noted that he has been avoiding most interview requests on the subject of Alabama’s “papers, please” anti-immigration law, because he does not want to “add fuel to the fire across the country where people continue to look at Alabama in a negative light.” ("Alabama in a negative light" - why, that could never happen, governor.)

Too late for that. ... And who would? With HB 56 causing a humanitarian and civil rights crisis in the state, we wouldn’t want to be its champion and defender either. But Governor Bentley is the person who signed the HB 56 bill into law, and responsibility for it does at least partially rest on him.

The link in the last paragraph has a great Stephen Colbert video clip on Alabama's immigration law.