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By: Daniel Nardini
When the Southern Poverty Law Center, a well known civil rights and advocacy legal organization, demanded that the Alabama Department of Education turn over these same records as part of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s lawsuit on HB 56, the State of Alabama refused. It seems that the State of Alabama has a lot to hide. Such records will most likely show that contrary to what the Alabama state government had said almost a year ago, the law greatly impacting Latinos. It is impacting Latinos in all manners of society. It is also impacting the children of Latino parents—be they undocumented or legal permanent residents. What HB 56 is forcing parents to do is show detailed documentation on themselves, and basically stating that they are in the country legally which is not the business of state schools. When I was growing up, schools never asked for information on whether my mother or father was a U.S. citizen, and whether they were in the country legally. The problem of this law in Alabama is that it dumps a big burden on the parents to “prove” they are here legally which has no connection to education, or to the better care of the children.
Quite the contrary, the parents are being forced to take the children out of school and probably out of the state. This is the intended consequence of HB 56. It is the intention of those who created this legislation to not only force most if not all Latinos out of the state but also to stigmatize all Latinos with the word “illegals.” It is the new racism and new Jim Crow Law of the 21st Century. It is tragic that the powers that be in Alabama are trying to repeat their past. Alabama was one of the last states to finally be forced to give up its legal discrimination of African Americans in the middle 1960’s. Yes, the State of Alabama will not release its school attendance records to the Southern Poverty Law Center or to the public. It has something to hide.