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Alabama Immigration
A strict new immigration law in Alabama, HB-56, which requires police, schools and hospitals to check the immigration status of people, has both the legal and undocumented latino population in the state fearful of deportation and family break ups. At a rally against the law in front of the State Capitol, Latino activists received support from the African-American communitty, which links the new law to to their own struggle for civil rights.