On 12/12/2011 8:01 AM, Drifter wrote:
On 12/12/2011 8:49 AM, X ` Man wrote:
....unless it was Texas or Mississippi, of course...


As Businesses Pull Out Of Alabama Due To Anti-Immigrant Law,
Gov. Pleads With Car Companies To Stay

By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Dec 9, 2011 at 4:30 pm

First, farmers saw the immediate economic catastrophe in Alabama because
of the state’s draconian immigration law HB 56 as immigrant workers fled
and their crops rotted. Then two high-profile arrests of foreign
autoworkers legally in the state potentially put international
investment in Alabama at risk. As a result, business leaders are now
joining the chorus of voices against HB 56 because of serious economic
consequences the anti-immigrant law is having on the state — while the
state’s governor is playing damage control with the four foreign
automakers that employ tens of thousands of Alabamians:

Gov. Robert Bentley, who signed the law, said he’s contacting foreign
executives to tell them they and their companies are still welcome in
Alabama.

“We are not anti-foreign companies. We are very pro-foreign companies,”
he said.

And earlier this week, the business alliance in Birmingham, Alabama’s
largest city, called for revisions to the law because the group worried
the law was tainting Alabama’s image around the world. James T. McManus,
chairman of the Alliance and CEO of the Energen Corp., said revisions
“are needed to ensure that momentum remains strong in our competitive
economic development efforts.”

Sheldon Day, the mayor of Thomasville, Alabama, has already seen the
reality of McManus’ concerns. After Day recruited a Canadian steel
company to Thomasville in July 2010, he said 25 companies have visited
the town about building plants there. But he told the Wall Street
Journal that since the law went into effect, at least one company turned
down a visit because of the immigration law. And Golden Dragon Precise
Copper Tube Group, a Chinese company that in March pledged to build a
$100 million factory in Thomasville, is reconsidering its decision to
build a plant in Alabama after the law went into effect.

The mounting concerns among business leaders show a turning point for
the immigration law. Already, legislators have weighed in about wanting
to change HB 56, and state Attorney General Luther Strange admitted that
parts of the harmful law need to be scrapped. For a law that could cost
the Alabama economy at least $40 million each year, it should be clear
how vital it is for lawmakers in Alabama to do something about the
crisis HB 56 created.
Update

Bentley put out a statement today saying that he “recognize[s] that
changes are needed” to Alabama’s immigration law, but insisted he would
not support repealing the law.

There ought to be a law against lawyers writing dumb laws.

But that is the idea of lawyers, to make it all ****ed up and then of
course employ lawyer to manage it and spend perpetuity in fixing it.


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