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  • 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. A rally against the new law listens to speakers in front of the Governor's mansion in Montgomery.
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  • 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. A rally against the law is held in front of the Governor's house in Montgomery.
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  • 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.
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  • 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. Grafitti in a bathroom in a downtown Montgomery dinerexpresses a feeling popular in the state.
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  • Alabama's strict new immigration law, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has seem many undocumented workers leaving the state. Farms across the state have struggled to harvest their crops, working with skeleton migrant labor crews from Mexico, who traditionally have tended to the agriculture in the state. While there have been recruiting efforts to hire unemployed Americans, the hard work, long hours, low pay, transportation costs, and experience have proved to be serious obstacles. Most farmers do not want to hire Americans, because very few last even a week in the fields. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor.
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  • Alabama's strict new immigration law, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has seem many undocumented workers flee the state. Farms across the state have struggled to harvest their crops, working with skeleton migrant labor crew from Mexico, who traditionally have tended to the agriculture in the state. While there have been recruiting efforts to hire unemployed Americans, the hard work, long hours, low pay, transportation costs, and experience have proved to be serious obstacles. Most farmers do not want to hire Americans, because very few last even a week in the fields. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor..The crop rots in the fields, unpicked.
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  • Alabama's strict new immigration law, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has seem many undocumented workers flee the state. Farms across the state have struggled to harvest their crops, working with skeleton migrant labor crew from Mexico, who traditionally have tended to the agriculture in the state. While there have been recruiting efforts to hire unemployed Americans, the hard work, long hours, low pay, transportation costs, and experience have proved to be serious obstacles. Most farmers do not want to hire Americans, because very few last even a week in the fields. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor..An abandoned harvest bucket lies in the field with rotting tomatoes which were not picked this year.
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  • Alabama's strict new immigration law, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has seem many undocumented workers flee the state. Farms across the state have struggled to harvest their crops, working with skeleton migrant labor crew from Mexico, who traditionally have tended to the agriculture in the state. While there have been recruiting efforts to hire unemployed Americans, the hard work, long hours, low pay, transportation costs, and experience have proved to be serious obstacles. Most farmers do not want to hire Americans, because very few last even a week in the fields. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor. Elizabeth Brannon, an unemployed waitress, works the tomato fields after the Mexican migrant farm workers fled the state. Working with her brother and paid by the field, not the hour, she makes about fifty dollars a day.
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  • 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. A rally against the new law passes over the interstate in the state capital, Montgomery.
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  • 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. Residents relax on a Sunday afternoon in a Mexican trailer park neighborhood in a Birmingham suburb.
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  • 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. Children's party balloons are for sale at a Mexican market in a Birmingham suburb which serves as a communitty gathering point.
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  • 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. A baker at the Mi Pueblo supermarket, which serves as a communitty gathering point in suburban Pelham for the Mexicans in the area, works on a cake for a baby shower.
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  • 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. A couple walks down an aisle at a Mexican market in suburban Birmingham.
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  • 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. A woman kisses her dog in a Mexican trailer park neighborhood of Bessemer.
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  • 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. A couple from Costa Rica worries about deportation. Without access to a driver's liscense, every trip on the roads in their town of Hoover is a scary one, and they have made plans with their family if they disappear. Two of their three children are American citizens. The third, like them, is in the country illegally.
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  • 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. A young girl in a home of mixed citizenship-half the family is worried about deportation, while others were born in America.
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  • 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. A book in the yard of a suddenely abandoned home of a Mexican family of six who left the Alabama shortly after HB-56 was passed in fear of deportation.
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  • 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.The suddenely abandoned home of a Mexican family of six who left the Alabama shortly after HB-56 was passed in fear of deportation.
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  • 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. The abandoned home of a Mexican family that fled Alabama after hb-56 was passed.
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  • 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. Every Sunday, a large Laatino population attends the Spanish language mass at a suburban church on the outskirts of Birmingham.
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  • Alabama's strict new immigration law, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has seem many undocumented workers leaving the state. Farms across the state have struggled to harvest their crops, working with skeleton migrant labor crews from Mexico, who traditionally have tended to the agriculture in the state. While there have been recruiting efforts to hire unemployed Americans, the hard work, long hours, low pay, transportation costs, and experience have proved to be serious obstacles. Most farmers do not want to hire Americans, because very few last even a week in the fields. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor.
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  • 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. Children in a Mexican trailer park play on the trash of a recently abandoned, and moved, trailer. The Mexican neighborhhods of suburban Birmingham have seen many people leave the state after hb-56 was passed.
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  • 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. A shut down Mexican night club in Bessemer is one of many closed businesses in the area after hb-56 became law.
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  • 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. A replica Statue of Liberty stands over the Birmingham belt highway in a wealthy suburb.
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