Morris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center Files Lawsuit Challenging Alabama's "Jim Crow Era Like" Immigration Law.
July 8, 2011
Dear Friend,
Today we filed a lawsuit against Alabama's new, draconian anti-immigrant law. The New York Times calls it "the most extreme" in the nation. It makes Arizona's anti-immigrant legislation look like child's play.
The Alabama law makes it a crime for anyone—citizen and non-citizen alike—to drive someone who is undocumented to church or a hospital. It requires school children to report on the immigration status of their parents. It even prevents refugees who have been granted asylum in our country from going to a state university. And, without question, it will lead to massive racial profiling and discourage victims of crime from cooperating with the police.
At the press conference we held today, one of our clients—a minister—said that the law "violates core values of various faiths because it criminalizes acts of love and hospitality."
The law reminds me of the Jim Crow era. It will create an underclass of people who are denied equal protection under the law, just like the racist laws that stained Alabama and the Deep South for many decades.
Like the racists laws we've fought in the past, we cannot let this one stand.
Thank you for your support and dedication to justice. I'll keep you updated as this important legal battle progresses.
With my sincere thanks,
Morris Dees
Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
Editor's note: if you need a link to the lawsuit, send me a message, and I'll post it. Thanks for reading.
Dear Friend,
Today we filed a lawsuit against Alabama's new, draconian anti-immigrant law. The New York Times calls it "the most extreme" in the nation. It makes Arizona's anti-immigrant legislation look like child's play.
The Alabama law makes it a crime for anyone—citizen and non-citizen alike—to drive someone who is undocumented to church or a hospital. It requires school children to report on the immigration status of their parents. It even prevents refugees who have been granted asylum in our country from going to a state university. And, without question, it will lead to massive racial profiling and discourage victims of crime from cooperating with the police.
At the press conference we held today, one of our clients—a minister—said that the law "violates core values of various faiths because it criminalizes acts of love and hospitality."
The law reminds me of the Jim Crow era. It will create an underclass of people who are denied equal protection under the law, just like the racist laws that stained Alabama and the Deep South for many decades.
Like the racists laws we've fought in the past, we cannot let this one stand.
Thank you for your support and dedication to justice. I'll keep you updated as this important legal battle progresses.
With my sincere thanks,
Morris Dees
Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center
Editor's note: if you need a link to the lawsuit, send me a message, and I'll post it. Thanks for reading.
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