What Are You Doing Alabama? You’ve Got the Rest of the Union to Help You Along

It’s pretty depressing that a law intended to oppress brown people has to affect a white person to make headlines, but that’s America.

A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver’s license with him under Alabama’s new law targeting illegal immigrants, authorities said Friday, in an otherwise routine case that drew the attention of Gov. Robert Bentley.

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson told The Associated Press an officer stopped a rental vehicle for not having a tag Wednesday night and asked the driver for his license. The man only had a German identification card, so he was arrested and taken to police headquarters, Anderson said.

The 46-year-old executive was charged with violating the immigration law for not having proper identification, but he was released after an associate retrieved his passport, visa and German driver’s license from the hotel where he was staying, Anderson said.

I’m sure Germany is very happy about this. No doubt Alabama’s harsh anti-immigration law will spur the foreign investment it seeks……