Will Alabama's Immigration Debate Focus On Scary Muslims Next?

October 4, 2011 by Left in Alabama

The Beason-Hammon Immigration Law is all about making life in Alabama unbearable for brown people (with a whole lot of collateral damage to legal residents!) but is there a religious component as well, namely an anti-Muslim sentiment?  Former Bob Riley policy advisor and current state Senator Bryan Taylor about an arrest under the new law:

Is the first man charged under Alabama's new immigration law an Islamic fundamentalist?

Which begs the question, why bring religion into the immigration debate at all?  What the heck does a person's religion have to do with their immigration status? 

legislators are about this arrest, although they're strangely silent about the shortage of farm labor, pregnant women afraid to see a doctor and droves of hispanic children being taken out of Alabama schools.

     

Villifying the people who harvest our food, build our homes and mow our yards isn't working out so well for Alabama Republicans.  Is the GOP now going to try and pivot to pretend Beason-Hammon is protecting us from a different scary "them" ... Muslims?