Alabama Immigration Law Ensnares People You Wouldn't Expect
Angie G50
Moisés Naím / Daily Beast
Recently a little-known but symptomatic incident occurred in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, a place symbolic of America’s deep South and once an important center of the Ku Klux Klan and its white supremacist ideas. Surprisingly, in this instance, the victim of a xenophobic and anti-immigrant local government was not a poor African-American or a Hispanic illegal immigrant. It was Detlev Hager, a 46 year-old German citizen and a Mercedes-Benz executive, a company that is one of the largest employers and foreign investors in the state.
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