Alabama laws

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/17/opinion/trumka-king-civil-rights-alabama/?hpt=us_t2

The article, Alabama's immigration law: Jim Crow revisited, raises points of how Alabama was once the state where the civil rights movement had first started, is now a place again where there is racial injustice. The article discusses that if the law stays, children will be denied from schools if they can provide their citizenship. People will be ripped from their families in public if they can provide sufficient and orderly document papers. The article also stresses the importance of the President "to oppose and terminate all programs -- including collaboration between state and local law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security" in order to stop profiling and targeting immigrant communities. Furthermore, the article discusses the importance of immigration reform opposed to eliminating all immigrants.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45246594/ns/business-us_business/#.TsWhk7J3z8K

Why Americans won't do dirty jobs, explains the significance of hiring immigrant workers because American workers will not do the "dirty jobs". Randy Rhodes, the president of Harvest select explains how Americans do not want to work ten hour days in the field for lower than minimum wage, and it is hard for him to find immigrant workers to work with him because of the new Alabama immigration law. Furthermore, the article also explains that Rhode and many other employers did not know their employees were illegal until they fled the state because of the new regulations. Despite employers like Rhode trying to emphasis that to his workers that he needed them and he was their friend, many did not come back because of the fear of being deported back to their country.

Moreover, the article continues on with commentary of workers in the field and their experience of working in the fields while this law is being passed. In addition, the article expresses that Americans are too soft to work in the fields and by giving immigrants jobs of working in the fields it is not decreasing jobs for Americans because Americans do not want dirty jobs. The wages of working in the fields are also low. The workers earn $2 a basket, averaging $60 a day working 9hr days doing hard labor.