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Civil rights groups have asked Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange to provide guidance to law enforcement officers concerning what officers can do to determine the immigration status of people detained in traffic stops.
The legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mary Bauer, urged Strange in a telephone press conference to explain to officers when they can detain people and for how long in light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling concerning Arizona's immigration law.
Bauer said representatives of the SPLC, the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigration Law Center sent a letter Monday to Strange asking him to provide the guidance.
"Alabama is now ground zero in this fight against these racist laws," Bauer said.
She said the groups have received reports of people being stopped indefinitely while police check their immigration status.
Three such alleged incidents included in the letter:
In October 2011, an immigrant woman called the police after she was hit by her ex-husband. The police arrived on the scene and arrested the woman, who was unable to show her immigration papers.
In November 2011, a family was pulled over by police near Decatur, Ala. Despite the fact that the father (the vehicle's driver) was a lawful permanent resident and the children were U.S. citizens, the entire family was arrested because the wife/mother was not carrying her immigration documents with her. They were detained for approximately five hours.
In February 2012, two Latino men conversing at a gas station in northeastern Alabama were approached by two local police officers. The officers demanded that the men produce "green cards." When the men could not do so, the officers arrested the men and held them for several days. Neither man was ever charged with a crime.
Strange could not immediately be reached for comment.
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