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[Opinion] Alabama Tried a Trump-Like ‘Frankenstein’ Immigration Overhaul. It Ended Badly.

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October 25, 2011: A skeleton crew of Mexican field workers harvest a small percentage of the tomato crop. The rest rots in the fields, unpicked. On the Jenkins farm on Chandler Mountain, about 50 miles north of Birmingham, the majority of the tomato and pepper crops have rotted in the fields from lack of reliable labor. Alabama's strict immigration law HB-56, which instructs schools, hospitals, and police to check for proof of citizenship, has s…

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