Alabama legislature fails to act on immigration before session ends

It's not like they didn't have the opportunity. The Birmingham News reported Tuesday that nine bills relating to illegal immigration were introduced this session. All of them died in the Democrat-controlled legislature without a vote.

This B'ham News piece from February discusses the bills' content. (H/T Politics in Alabama...where one commenter filled in some of the details.) I don't want to suggest that these were all good bills. A particularly objectionable one was House Bill 483, proposed by Rep. Mickey Hammon (R-Decatur). It would have made all personal property of illegal aliens subject to forfeiture, except for basic living necessities. That just goes way too far, in my opinion. Illegal aliens are not slaves. To deprive them of the fruits of their labor would pay them an undeserved injustice. We can support stronger enforcement of the nation's immigration laws without surrendering our civility.