Alabama employers hire refugees to fill worker shortages
Story Date: 10/2/2012

Source: Bloomberg,  Margaret Newkirk & Gigi Douban, 9/24/12

 
Republican state Senator Scott Beason said theyear-old law designed to drive out illegal Hispanic immigrants [would]"put thousands of native Alabamians back in the workforce." Instead, it caused a labor shortage that resulted in the importation of hundreds of legal African and Haitian refugees, and Puerto Ricans
 
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