The Hill News

In recent days, school children in Alabama have been confronted with questions about who they are based on the color of their skin. At one school, a fourth grader was asked if she is a U.S. citizen. When she replied, “Yes,” she was asked about her parents’ status. Teachers report that children are afraid of being separated from their families.

The terror of immigration enforcement is now in the classrooms in Alabama and is traumatizing the most vulnerable members of our society, our children. Alabama, scarred by a long history of civil rights struggles, has become the first state to legalize racial profiling.

Career politicians, especially Republican presidential candidates, should think about the pervavise fear in Alabama and then answer this question: “Is Alabama Your America?”

They should ask themselves if they would want their children separated from others based on the color of their skin. Do they want their children questioned abou! t their private information? If the child was not born in the U.S. but is here legally, how would you suggest he or she answer? How would they feel if their child left for school in tears, worried that you would not be home at the end of the day because you did not carry your papers with you when you went to buy groceries?

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