Alabama (“Show me your papers” state) arrests "wrong" immigrant. Oops.

[rdean]

Ala. city drops immigration law case against Mercedes-Benz exec arrested under new crackdown - The Washington Post

Republicans who support the immigration law say it will help create jobs for legal Alabama residents by driving away illegal immigrants, but some business leaders and critics of the law contend similar arrests could hurt economic development in the state by making it a less-attractive location for foreign companies.

After Alabama Arrests Mercedes Executive, St. Louis Paper Tries To Poach Mercedes Plant For Missouri | ThinkProgress

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law — move the factory to Missouri instead.

Some business leaders are worried that the extreme immigration law will scare away foreign investors; by 2014, Mercedes will have invested $4 billion in Alabama after opening its first U.S. factory in the state in 1993. And with about 2,800 people employed by Mercedes in Alabama, losing the investment would compound the economic damage the immigration law is already causing in Alabama.

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Didn't we just go through this with Georgia and their losing possibly a billion dollars?

Doncha get tired of Republicans and their "unintended consequences"? This is why being "anti education" is bad. "Consequences" don't matter. It doesn't "occur" to them.

You can't go after everyone with an accent and try to attract foreign business at the same time without "thought" and "study", two things Republicans find "abhorrent". They need neither, because they have a "gut feeling" and "common sense".

 

[Contumacious]

Ala. city drops immigration law case against Mercedes-Benz exec arrested under new crackdown - The Washington Post

Republicans who support the immigration law say it will help create jobs for legal Alabama residents by driving away illegal immigrants, but some business leaders and critics of the law contend similar arrests could hurt economic development in the state by making it a less-attractive location for foreign companies.

After Alabama Arrests Mercedes Executive, St. Louis Paper Tries To Poach Mercedes Plant For Missouri | ThinkProgress

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law — move the factory to Missouri instead.

Some business leaders are worried that the extreme immigration law will scare away foreign investors; by 2014, Mercedes will have invested $4 billion in Alabama after opening its first U.S. factory in the state in 1993. And with about 2,800 people employed by Mercedes in Alabama, losing the investment would compound the economic damage the immigration law is already causing in Alabama.

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Didn't we just go through this with Georgia and their losing possibly a billion dollars?

Doncha get tired of Republicans and their "unintended consequences"? This is why being "anti education" is bad. "Consequences" don't matter. It doesn't "occur" to them.

You can't go after everyone with an accent and try to attract foreign business at the same time without "thought" and "study", two things Republicans find "abhorrent". They need neither, because they have a "gut feeling" and "common sense".

Bwahahhahahahahahahah


Ala-fucking-bama.

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[Toddsterpatriot]

Ala. city drops immigration law case against Mercedes-Benz exec arrested under new crackdown - The Washington Post

Republicans who support the immigration law say it will help create jobs for legal Alabama residents by driving away illegal immigrants, but some business leaders and critics of the law contend similar arrests could hurt economic development in the state by making it a less-attractive location for foreign companies.

After Alabama Arrests Mercedes Executive, St. Louis Paper Tries To Poach Mercedes Plant For Missouri | ThinkProgress

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law — move the factory to Missouri instead.

Some business leaders are worried that the extreme immigration law will scare away foreign investors; by 2014, Mercedes will have invested $4 billion in Alabama after opening its first U.S. factory in the state in 1993. And with about 2,800 people employed by Mercedes in Alabama, losing the investment would compound the economic damage the immigration law is already causing in Alabama.

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Didn't we just go through this with Georgia and their losing possibly a billion dollars?

Doncha get tired of Republicans and their "unintended consequences"? This is why being "anti education" is bad. "Consequences" don't matter. It doesn't "occur" to them.

You can't go after everyone with an accent and try to attract foreign business at the same time without "thought" and "study", two things Republicans find "abhorrent". They need neither, because they have a "gut feeling" and "common sense".

Now Democrats want to talk about unintended consequences? LOL!

 

[Chris]

The tough immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama are going to hurt their economies.

Ha, ha,...

 

[CaféAuLait]

Ala. city drops immigration law case against Mercedes-Benz exec arrested under new crackdown - The Washington Post

Republicans who support the immigration law say it will help create jobs for legal Alabama residents by driving away illegal immigrants, but some business leaders and critics of the law contend similar arrests could hurt economic development in the state by making it a less-attractive location for foreign companies.

After Alabama Arrests Mercedes Executive, St. Louis Paper Tries To Poach Mercedes Plant For Missouri | ThinkProgress

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law — move the factory to Missouri instead.

Some business leaders are worried that the extreme immigration law will scare away foreign investors; by 2014, Mercedes will have invested $4 billion in Alabama after opening its first U.S. factory in the state in 1993. And with about 2,800 people employed by Mercedes in Alabama, losing the investment would compound the economic damage the immigration law is already causing in Alabama.

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Didn't we just go through this with Georgia and their losing possibly a billion dollars?

Doncha get tired of Republicans and their "unintended consequences"? This is why being "anti education" is bad. "Consequences" don't matter. It doesn't "occur" to them.

You can't go after everyone with an accent and try to attract foreign business at the same time without "thought" and "study", two things Republicans find "abhorrent". They need neither, because they have a "gut feeling" and "common sense".

Hummm so one can't say this law is all about racial profiling, eh? Or should we allow someone to drive around without license plate on their car and a drivers licence and break the law?

Last week, a Mercedes-Benz executive was stopped by police in Alabama because his rental car did not have a license plate. He had a German identification card but had left his passport and driver's license at his hotel.

Ala. Immigration Law Back In Spotlight After Mercedes-Benz Exec Is Arrested : The Two-Way : NPR

 

[CaféAuLait]

The tough immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama are going to hurt their economies.

Ha, ha,...

You think they are going to move their plant because a newspaper from another state wrote a story?

 

[Cowman]

Well at least he wasn't brown... right?

 

[rdean]

The tough immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama are going to hurt their economies.

Ha, ha,...

You think they are going to move their plant because a newspaper from another state wrote a story?

Probably not. But it could damage the chances for new business that might have thought about moving there.

 

[CaféAuLait]

The tough immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama are going to hurt their economies.

Ha, ha,...

You think they are going to move their plant because a newspaper from another state wrote a story?

Probably not. But it could damage the chances for new business that might have thought about moving there.

So what you are saying is the cop should have looked the other way when he noted someone driving down the road without a licence plate and then when he found he did not have a drivers licence that cop should have just let him go because he worked for Mercedes?

 

[Douger]

Move the plant to Mexico.

 

[USArmyRetired]

Good logical post!!

 

[USArmyRetired]

The tough immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama are going to hurt their economies.

Ha, ha,...

You think they are going to move their plant because a newspaper from another state wrote a story?

But it could damage the chances for new business that might have thought about moving there.

Not because of this extremely minor incident it wont.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Good logical post!!

Offensive and crude pic there dumb ass. I don't like Obama's policies but the picture you are using is beyond the pale.

 

[rdean]

You think they are going to move their plant because a newspaper from another state wrote a story?

Probably not. But it could damage the chances for new business that might have thought about moving there.

So what you are saying is the cop should have looked the other way when he noted someone driving down the road without a licence plate and then when he found he did not have a drivers licence that cop should have just let him go because he worked for Mercedes?

That's what I find consistent about the right wingnuts. They have no imagination. In their world, everything is always "either/or" and nothing in between.

Let me take a moment to "school" you in a little reality.

Police are obligated to follow the letter of the law. Try to figure out what the police did BEFORE this law was put into place. Here, let me help. They were able to use their own discretion. They were trusted with making up their own minds based on the circumstances and their experience and expected to do the right thing.

When such restrictive laws are put into place, first, it's the opposite of "small government" and an increase in "government intrusion" and a "takeover by gubmint" - all things Republicans falsely claim to be against, obviously.

Worst, because Republicans have no understanding of "unintended consequences", their new law could be forcing this officer to put his life at risk. Every time a new law is passed, choices are removed. I'm going to let you figure out why this could be endangering the police officer. Consider it an assignment to get the old unused brain to start working at least a tiny bit.

Please don't be offended. I'm offended enough for both of us.

 

[paulitician]

Yea ok,the Police/Prison State isn't here. So many adults still believing in fairy tales. This stuff is getting much worse. Have your papers people. The Gestapo has the right to lock you up if you don't have them. Chilling times in this nation for sure.

 

[occupied]

Alabama is a huge producer of chicken, illegal immgrants work the houses, transport them to the factory and process them into the huge array of nuggets and pieces you buy in the store. The chicken people are crying the blues, now they have to hire back all the people they fired to hire illegals. Expect chicken prices to go up.

 

[Tank]

I'm jealous of Alabama, here in California we need to thin the beaner herd

 

[SableRay]

No new business should come to Alabama. This man being stopped proves how wrong this law is. I hope his company leaves this red state.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

While Tuscaloosa police arrested the man last week for not having proper citizenship documents while driving a rental car in the city, city attorney Tim Nunnally said in an email the charge was dismissed after the man later provided the documents in municipal court.

That’s not how due process and our legal system work: lack of identification is not probable cause for a search, much less arrest.

A German national subject to arrest in the United States because he couldn’t produce his papers – the irony is sickening.

 

[paulitician]

While Tuscaloosa police arrested the man last week for not having proper citizenship documents while driving a rental car in the city, city attorney Tim Nunnally said in an email the charge was dismissed after the man later provided the documents in municipal court.

That’s not how due process and our legal system work: lack of identification is not probable cause for a search, much less arrest.

A German national subject to arrest in the United States because he couldn’t produce his papers – the irony is sickening.

I have to agree. What are we becoming?