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Alabama has passed a new immigration law. In this new law schools would be required to check the legal status of their students. Many are upset and say that this is much like the controversial SB 1070 law that courts called unconstitutional last year. Many people say that this is not the school's business, this will create a subclass of illiterates, this will discourage many illegal parents from enrolling their kids, and so on. I have no problem with this. Georgia recently passed a law that would require employees to check the status of their workers and so on. What is wrong with any of this? Nothing to me. Supporters say the law will help the state determine how much public money goes to educating undocumented children. I agree. Illegal immigration is ILLEGAL!!!! Meaning it is a crime. Go sneak into Mexico and try to live there without proper documentation, you will get 2 years of jail time, and that is for 1st time offenders. There is at least one loophole though. The law doesn't say schools should turn away students who can't provide documentation--that would be in blatant violation of the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which struck down a Texas law that forbade public money going to the education of illegal immigrants. In the Plyler case, the court ruled that fashioning laws to punish children violated the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law. Still, I think these issues are real. I hate to sound like a Southerner, but those from the North have no right 
thumbing their nose at those to the South when it comes to these issues. Yes New York once let hundreds of thousands of immigrants in, but this is now and this is a different time. There are many gangs throughout the South that were formed by illegals and there is a lot of money being spent by the government on them in many forms whether it be law enforcement, education, medical assistance,etc. I am giving Alabama, this is odd, a Digit Up. it's not racist, it's actually right.
It seems that black Americans are ditching the North and moving back to the South. Although many African Americans still live in the South, a lot moved North and West for better jobs and a better way of life, and of course to ditch the racial tensions and small minded ways of the old and somewhat new South. Over the last decade the nation's black population grew by 1.7 million, 75% of which was in the South in areas like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Charlotte, N.C. It seems that any are moving back for the many of the reasons they left, better jobs and a better way of life. Texas was one of the few states that seemed untouched by the recession as it actually grew in population, jobs and their home values went up, unlike California who is virtually bankrupt. While New York City still holds the largest number of black people at roughly 3.7 million, the South hold 57% of the total population, which is the highest it has been since the 1960's. Texas will become a majority-minority state for the first time based on official 2010 results; its switch occurred in 2005, according to censu
s estimates. It joins Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Washington, D.C. Eight states, led by Arizona, Maryland, Nevada and Georgia, have shares of non-Hispanic whites nearing the tipping point of 50 percent. I do not see this change as being permanent, although with many old school racist dying and a new breed of Southern men and women are coming into their own this could be a good permanent. I am not totally sure how I feel about this. The South is an okay place to live, but it still seems a little behind culturally. The presence of positive blacks could go a long way in re-shaping the image of the South for the better and it could compete as an equally great place to live for forward thinkers. I still feel that this is just going to backfire somehow, but until then I will give this news a Digit Up.
Alabama has passed a new immigration law. In this new law schools would be required to check the legal status of their students. Many are upset and say that this is much like the controversial SB 1070 law that courts called unconstitutional last year. Many people say that this is not the school's business, this will create a subclass of illiterates, this will discourage many illegal parents from enrolling their kids, and so on. I have no problem with this. Georgia recently passed a law that would require employees to check the status of their workers and so on. What is wrong with any of this? Nothing to me. Supporters say the law will help the state determine how much public money goes to educating undocumented children. I agree. Illegal immigration is ILLEGAL!!!! Meaning it is a crime. Go sneak into Mexico and try to live there without proper documentation, you will get 2 years of jail time, and that is for 1st time offenders. There is at least one loophole though. The law doesn't say schools should turn away students who can't provide documentation--that would be in blatant violation of the 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v. Doe, which struck down a Texas law that forbade public money going to the education of illegal immigrants. In the Plyler case, the court ruled that fashioning laws to punish children violated the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law. Still, I think these issues are real. I hate to sound like a Southerner, but those from the North have no right 
thumbing their nose at those to the South when it comes to these issues. Yes New York once let hundreds of thousands of immigrants in, but this is now and this is a different time. There are many gangs throughout the South that were formed by illegals and there is a lot of money being spent by the government on them in many forms whether it be law enforcement, education, medical assistance,etc. I am giving Alabama, this is odd, a Digit Up. it's not racist, it's actually right.
