Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2012. Today, the Center for American Progress hosted acclaimed director Chris Weitz (“A Better Life,” “The Golden Compass,” “About a Boy”) who unveiled four new short videos comprising the series, “Is This Alabama?“, that turns the lens on Alabama’s harsh anti-immigration law, H.B. 56. The Center for American Progress also released the report “Alabama’s Immigration Disaster: The Harshest Law in the Land Harms the State’s Economy and Society” by journalist Tom Baxter, which goes even more in-depth into how this law is destroying the fabric of Alabama’s society and economy. Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who has spent a considerable amount of time in Alabama amplifying the stories of immigrants in the state, joined the discussion on the film, the report, and the effects of the law.
