Alabama Immigration Law

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Key Points

• Alabama becomes fourth state, after Georgia, Utah and Indiana, to follow Arizona's lead in enacting significant statewide immigration laws.
• The law makes it a "discriminatory practice" to fire, or decline to hire, a legal resident when an illegal one is on the payroll.
• There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S.
  
• People of "Hispanic or Latino origin" currently make up about 3.9-percent of Alabama's population of 4.8 million.
• Alabama had 120,000 "unauthorized immigrants" in 2010, up from an estimated 5,000 in 1990.

Figures provided by Census Bureau figures and the Pew Hispanic Center