Alabama Workers Meet Harsh Immigration Law with Wildcat Strikes
Submitted on October 22, 2011
By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo - October 22, 2011
An all-out attack on immigrant workers, their families, and communities continues in the South and West. In Alabama, immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes...Immigrant rights advocates say Alabama’s law is the harshest. It gives police the right to stop and investigate anyone they “reasonably suspect” of being undocumented — in other words, an open invitation to racially profile.
