Less than a week after Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s SB-1070 was recalled by voters, Scott Beason, author of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law, has been dumped from the leadership by the Alabama GOP. Beason heads the powerful Senate Rules Committee, but he will no longer hold that position. Beason’s law has sparked a backlash...
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Scott Beason wrote Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law. He’s under a lot of pressure because the media is reporting on the impact of the law on the children of the undocumented, many of whom are U.S. citizens. Students are dropping out of school by the hundreds, principals report that elementary school children are breaking down...
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Scott Beason, the author of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law, came under fire from tomato farmers today who said his political showboating may well cost them their crop this year. Beason, a racist who refers to African Americans as “aborigines” and talked at public meetings about shooting immigrants, followed his normal policy with the farmers of...
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Alabama State Senator Scott Beason wrote that state’s anti-immigrant law. He has discussed the shooting of undocumented immigrants, as a “metaphor” of course. Now, a month after the statement was revealed he has finally apologized, sort of, for a statement he made against African Americans. In a trial last month, an FBI tape of...
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State Senator Scott Beason is the man behind Alabama’s worst in the nation anti-immigrant law. Beason is a hard-core rightist who is so committed to ideology that he has placed the county that Birmingham is in on the verge of bankruptcy because he won’t let them impose a tax to replace one that had...
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