In Alabama, Even Using Water May Get You Deported
October 7, 2011 
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We received a tip today that illustrates pretty starkly how much suspicion has grown in Alabama for Latinos there. The following photo is titled “Ethnic Cleansing in Alabama without Water” and comes from the Center for American Progress website:
Which is to say that not even human essentials like water — not to mention education or healthcare — are available to the immigrants of Alabama. We’ve already written about this law here, here and here, and the Department of Justice is now appealing the law in federal court. And, again, those Latinos in Alabama who are here legally are also being harassed under the new law. One kid in this story from NPR says the kids in school are asking him if he’s going back to Mexico (he was born in Alabama).
[This material photo was published by the Center for American Progress]
[...] Draconian immigration policies in Georgia and Alabama have gotten a bit of attention recently as fearful parents have pulled their students from Alabama classrooms. Groups have mobilized marches and boycotts. Politicians are trying to navigate the political minefield. Civil rights groups have developed collective hard-ons that have lasted longer than four hours. In a growing number of states residents of burnt sienna hue or beyond on the scary brown spectrum are sleeping with one eye open (probably to keep their eyes on their drugs, guns, and other dastardly accoutrement). Families are beating the brown off their kids and punching them in the mouth so that any perceived accent is inaudible due to fat lips – since Alabama is now targeting school children . Even leathery, over-tanned Caucasian women are running scared – expressionless, but scared nonetheless. But in all this, no one has gotten to the practical things that one can do to avoid having problems with these policies. So, as usual, El Guapo was forced to stop styling his copious chest hair (FYI corn rolls this week) and take immediate action before things got out of control. [...]