Assistant Attorney General Tony West Speaks at the American Constitution Society Southeast Symposium on State Immigration Laws

On February 7, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tony West delivered remarks on the Department of Justices’ state immigration preemption litigation at the American Constitution Society Southeast Symposium on State Immigration Laws in Atlanta, GA. In those remarkes, West, among other things, West commented on the deleterious effects of Alabama’s immigrtaion enforcement law:

“My colleague, Civil Rights Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez, and I have traveled to Alabama several times where we’ve heard accounts of children being kept out of school by fearful parents, and school officials who told us of the precipitous drop in the enrollment of Latino students when the school year started this past September; utility companies denying or discontinuing heat, water or electricity, citing their concerns about violating the contracting prohibitions of the Alabama statute; and landlords evicting immigrants and their families as fall and winter approached.”

KJ