Re: RepubliKlans Destroy Any Shot of Getting Plurality of LATINO Vote -A Latino Expla
The boots even match in style and height...
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2011/12/14/no-way-live
"Fernando Rodriguez, a legal permanent resident and the minister of a church in Albertville, reported that he and his friend, another pastor, were given no reason for being stopped in the town of Warrior, soon after pulling out of a gas station. Instead, according to Rev. Rodriguez, the officer made abusive and derogatory statements like,
“Why are you in the US?” and “Go back to Mexico.”
In another part of the state, Rafael B., a 23-year-old unauthorized immigrant who has been in the US since he was 17 years old, reported he was repeatedly told, “You have no rights,” when he was stopped and eventually arrested two weeks after the law went into effect, allegedly for not using his turn signal.[145] Rafael could not show his driver’s license because he, like all other unauthorized immigrants, is barred from getting an Alabama’s driver’s license. When he showed his Mexican passport, the officer did not believe it was real because it did not have a “seal.” (The Mexican consulate in Atlanta stated that it could not vouch for the authenticity of a passport without looking at it, but that depending on where and when the passport was issued, it may or may not have a raised seal on the photo.)[146] The officer then arrested him. When Rafael asked if he could call a lawyer, the officer allegedly told him,
“No. You don’t have any rights. You’re on the street.”[147] Rafael then asked if he could call someone else. Rafael recounted, “He said no, I don’t have a right to anything.” They continued to ask him where he got his passport, and he continued to respond he got it at the consulate. They then took him to the police station, where “[t]hey said I didn’t have a right to anything, that if I was legal, I could get out with $300 but I didn’t have a right to anything.” They allegedly asked him questions like,
“Why are there so many Mexicans here? Because there’s lots of US citizens who don’t have a job here. You’re taking away their jobs,” and “Where did you cross the border?” They compelled him to sign papers without explaining to him what they were, saying they would write more tickets for him if he did not sign.
A Mexican national and unauthorized immigrant in Elberta, a small town outside of Foley, described a similar incident a week after the law went into effect. A police officer followed his car for three miles and then pulled him over immediately before he crossed into the jurisdiction of the Foley police. He gave no reason for the stop, but when the driver was unable to produce a driver’s license, the officer repeated a couple of times,
“I’m going to give you one shot to get out of Alabama. Next time, I’m going to send you back to Mexico.”
Several people reported accounts of people being stopped or arrested on what they believed were pretextual grounds. Stephen McGowan, an attorney in Dothan, reported that a client of his had been deported after he was pulled over, allegedly for having his radio on too loud. According to McGowan, however, the radio was broken and could not be turned on.
She said that soon after the law passed, her “eight-year-old came home from school really crying one day.”[153] A girl had told her
“she was going to have to go back to Mexico, and that they were going to send her whole family back.” Guzman said:
Some private businesses, which have no legal duty to require proof of legal status, seem to have taken it upon themselves to verify citizenship or lawful presence for routine transactions. A woman reported that her 55-year-old mother, a permanent resident of Latino descent, was shaken when
a clerk at a major discount store told her she had to provide proof of US citizenship to fill her prescription.
Several people reported that their workplaces had become hostile, with co-workers making discriminatory and hurtful statements, such as, “You hear about the new law? They’re going to get you!”[158] Delia R., a permanent resident, was shocked because her co-workers had never made such statements before the law was passed.
Some people reported that even strangers at grocery stores have made abusive remarks, such as,
“Why are you still here? Don’t you understand you have to leave?”[161] A teacher in Foley reported that “Frequently Asked Questions” fliers about the Alabama immigrant law had been defaced with words like, “Go back to Mexico,” and placed on car windshields at a parking lot outside a major discount chain store.
The media is covering it up, only reporting some German executive getting pulled over to show the law is not discriminatory, you got all these other stories that aren't being told about the law. You got the police out there stalking and terrorizing people.
