Last Wednesday evening, Hispanic immigrants began an exodus from Alabama following a judge’s decision to uphold most provisions of the state’s far-reaching immigration law.
The law allows state and local police to ask for immigration papers during routine traffic stops and requires schools to ascertain the immigration status of children at registration time.
The New York Times reports that thousands have left the state; 5% of Hispanic students were absent last Friday. “In certain neighborhoods the streets are uncommonly quiet, like the aftermath of some sort of rapture,” Campbell Robertson wrote.
