If you’re talking about hardships in rural areas, you’d be wrong not to mention illegal immigrants. You could safely say almost no one has it tougher in Bumblefuck as there’s new laws that make it extremely clear that Alabama doesn’t “take too kindly to foreigners” as if there was any doubt before they weren’t thrilled Mexicans were living there.
New legislation goes above and beyond Arizona’s ultra-strict laws (that federal courts said were unconstitutional) and makes it illegal for Alabama residents to do almost anything with an illegal immigrant besides turn them in. It says schools are forced to require citizenship forms for students, that you can’t rent a property to immigrants, and that you can’t even give a car ride to an illegal immigrant. That’s right, it’s now a felony for a church bus to give a ride to one its members that could be illegal (because we all know Jesus’s pet peeve was unauthorized border crossing).
So this week Alabama Liberal will be covering illegal immigration and this Friday rerunning an under read interview with an Illegal Immigrant