Alabama

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p>Fourteen-year-old Jocelyn wants to be the first person in her family to graduate. But now she may have to do it without the one person who most wanted to be there: her mom.</p>
<p>When Alabama enacted the nation’s toughest immigration law, HB 56, her mother was faced with an impossible decision: stay and live in fear; or flee back to Mexico, denying her daughter the education that she had sacrificed so much to give her.</p>

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<p><strong>Birmingham</strong><strong>, Alabama</strong> – Illinois congressman Luis Gutiérrez has always said that the fight for immigration reform is a civil-rights issue for the immigrant community in the United States.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Alabama is famous for self-deception, lying and stupidity unmatched in American history, except of course, by its neighboring sister state, Mississippi.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; El estado de Alabama volvió a mostrar su naturaleza intolerante. Fue uno de los bastiones de los Ku Klux Klan; ahora se ha convertido en la meca de la reacción antiinmigrante y el centro del racismo norteamericano.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Algunos pasajes de su nueva ley estatal, HM56, vista en el microscopio político, es claramente inconstitucional. No solamente agreden los derechos civiles e individuales, sino que también violan los derechos naturales del ser humano.</p>