Update: AL Law Violates Fair Housing Act

Here is an update from USA Today to a post from last week about how Alabama's new immigration law is preventing manufactured homeowners from obtaining a permit the state requires:

Some portions of Alabama's law, known as HB 56 and described by supporters and critics as the harshest state immigration law in the country, were already blocked by a federal judge. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson took an additional step by ordering the state to stop denying manufactured home registration permits to people who couldn't prove their U.S. citizenship.

The law forbids illegal immigrants from conducting any business transactions with the state. State officials had interpreted that to mean illegal immigrants couldn't get a yearly permit for their manufactured homes ahead of a Nov. 30 deadline and were also barred from getting a different permit that would allow them to move their manufactured homes on public roads.

Hopefully, the courts will succeed in getting this rights-violating law overturned in its entirety one day!

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