Jul 14, 2011
Tough Alabama immigration law convinces some to move

Nicolas Hernandez said goodbye to his parents just days after Alabama lawmakers passed what is being described as the country’s toughest crackdown on illegal immigration.

His mother and father, undocumented workers at a farm near Birmingham, decided not to chance getting ensnared by the new law and returned to their home country of Argentina. Reuters

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