Alabama Immigration Law: Opponents Rally Around Deli Owner, Latino Workers

[RamboLiberal]

Dubrinsky, a Birmingham deli owner who was pilloried by strangers for defending his Latino workforce in an interview with the Birmingham News. Dubrinsky had told the paper that even documented Latinos were scared of Alabama's sweeping new immigration enforcement law, and that many legal workers would end up leaving the state because they no longer felt comfortable there.

Outraged by Dubrinsky's support of immigrants, strangers flooded his inbox with threats to boycott his restaurant, Max's Delicatessen. Typical of the missives Dubrinsky received: "I hope your unamerican establishment closes down!!!!" His restaurant suddenly received dozens of negative one-star reviews on Google, mostly from anonymous first-time posters.

But since late last week, Dubrinsky has witnessed an outpouring of support from a different set of strangers. After reading of Dubrinsky's plight, opponents of the new law have rallied around his deli, leading to one the busiest stretches at the restaurant that Dubrinsky can recall. He tells HuffPost that new diners have been driving from up to forty miles outside the city just to try his reuben and thank him for standing up for Latino workers.

"I've shaken more hands in the last two days than in the previous two years. It's been amazing," Dubrinsky said. "The restaurant has been pretty darn busy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/alabama-immigration-law-maxs-deli_n_1028793.html

Glad good people are countering the bigots.

[provis99]

1. It's obvious that flat out racism is motivating the Alabama law,

if they are even criticizing businessmen who hire legal workers who happen to be Latinos. The Old South isn't dead and buried, yet...

[pampango]

2. That is great news. The prospect of minorities leaving the state has republicans smiling.

They get to target those dreaded "illegals" knowing that many Hispanics who are legal immigrants or American citizens will leave too, either because of the anti-Hispanic atmosphere or because families are a mix of people with various status and want to stay together.

Southern republicans must enjoy watching this. It is a reenactment of the Great Migration.

"The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930. Some historians differentiate between a First Great Migration (1910–30), numbering about 1.6 million migrants, and a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), in which 5 million or more people moved and to a wider variety of destinations."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

6 million African Americans "self-deported" out of the South. Alabama's republican legislators and governor can only hope that Hispanics follow that historical example. Make life miserable enough and people will 'self-deport' (http://alibi.com/feature/32226/Climate-Check-Arizona.html">"attrition through enforcement" - catchphrase of the the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)).

[trof]

3. Proud to give 5th rec