Friday, February 15, 2013

Alabama Revisited--After the "Self-Deportations"

I'm here in Atlanta at a meeting at Emory University. Since Atlanta is close to Alabama (the freeway road signs point to Birmingham and Auburn, for example), I was taken by the immediacy of a report forwarded to me by Ruben Rumbaut at UC-Irvine. He describes the story as a bridging of  Irresistible Forces and Immigrant America (shameless plugs for our books, but there it is). This follows up on the incredibly restrictive laws against undocumented immigrants passes in Alabama a couple of years and subsequently upheld by the courts, as I noted at the time.  The story is lengthy and detailed and worth the effort to read--and I need to catch a taxi to the airport...

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