Alabama's Immigration Law is Business Friendly!

    After all State Sen. Scott Beason (R), who sponsored the anti-immigrant bill in the Alabama legislature, once called it a “jobs bill,"

    And what a jobs bill! Certainly one can't think of any reason why say the automobile industry won't see Alabama is a business friendly environment. Just the other day a major automobile company, Mercedes had one of its German executives arrested for not carrying his passport.

    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/21/373334/german-mercedes-benz-executive-arrested-under-alabamas-immigration-law/

   "In October, the New York Times speculated in an editorial that despite best efforts to recruit foreign automakers to Alabama, the state was now “infamous as a regional capital of xenophobia.” And if the immigration law scared away a manufacturer like Mercedes, which employs about 2,800 Alabamians, or Hyundai, which announced an expansion at its Montgomery, Alabama plant in May, would only compound the state’s economic woes. The unfortunate arrest of a visiting Mercedes executive only underscores the damage Alabama’s harmful anti-immigrant law will continue to do to the state’s economy — and its reputation."

    Obviously the New York Times was employing scare tactics, I mean, why would a foreign automaker be scared away by reasonable "immigration reform" like this?

     I'm sure the reports that the immigration law is leaving entire industries in the state without enough workers are just overblown.

     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/alabama-immigration-law-d_n_1092688.html