http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-12-02/alabama-immigration-HB-56-religion-christians/51588034/1
In her column, Mallory McDuff, a professor at Warren Wilson College, notes that the recent HB 56 legislation in Alabama, an extremely strict anti-illegal immigration law that requires school to report possible illegal students and forbids the employment of, college education of, or property ownership or rent by illegal immigrants, only enlarges the state's record of shame. Even people raised in that state, she claims, "have a moral obligation to resist this legislation" as it is morally wrong and often results in racial profiling that would have been illegal otherwise. Her stance puts morality and faith in front of the problem of constant illegal immigration, and she implies that anti-illegal immigration, such as this one, can cross the line between national welfare and inhumanity. This is why the public has to resist and seek a more spiritual and moral path, so that such terrible things, such as "more than half the detainees [being] separated from family and children", with or without proper evidence and reason, at certain checkpoints, can be avoided, and the illegal immigration can be approached a different way. This kind of an issue is becoming more and more relevant today since in the past years, the country has actually not had enough effective anti-illegal immigration laws, and can be expanded into further research by monitoring issues with legal immigrants as well, an issue with personal meaning to me.
In her column, Mallory McDuff, a professor at Warren Wilson College, notes that the recent HB 56 legislation in Alabama, an extremely strict anti-illegal immigration law that requires school to report possible illegal students and forbids the employment of, college education of, or property ownership or rent by illegal immigrants, only enlarges the state's record of shame. Even people raised in that state, she claims, "have a moral obligation to resist this legislation" as it is morally wrong and often results in racial profiling that would have been illegal otherwise. Her stance puts morality and faith in front of the problem of constant illegal immigration, and she implies that anti-illegal immigration, such as this one, can cross the line between national welfare and inhumanity. This is why the public has to resist and seek a more spiritual and moral path, so that such terrible things, such as "more than half the detainees [being] separated from family and children", with or without proper evidence and reason, at certain checkpoints, can be avoided, and the illegal immigration can be approached a different way. This kind of an issue is becoming more and more relevant today since in the past years, the country has actually not had enough effective anti-illegal immigration laws, and can be expanded into further research by monitoring issues with legal immigrants as well, an issue with personal meaning to me.
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