A federal appeals court has blocked two provisions in Alabama’s tough immigration law, including a requirement for public schools to check the immigration status of students. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an order granting the stays, report CNN, the Associated Press and Bloomberg News. The other blocked provision made it a misdemeanor for unlawful immigrants to fail to carry an alien registration card. Since the Alabama law passed this summer, many Hispanic students have not gone to school and many Hispanic families have left the state, the Associated Press says. The measure has been called…
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