New Immigration law leaves the fields emtpy

So today I'm posting about a political issue again, this time in the US. In my English class we were assigned to transcribe a video about American culture. The video I got was about a new Immigration law in the State of Alabama. This new law toughens the rules about social intercourse with undocumented Immigrants as you will hear in the video. What was funny though: As the law was introduced most Immigrants fled to another state and no one was there to work on the fields because Americans didn't want to do it. So it is true Immigrants documented or not are a backbone of the economy and also what makes the US. And if we are all honest to ourselves there are also many jobs that a lot of people here in Austria consider themselves to be too good for too. But it's work that has to be done! So the next time someone whines about Immigrants taking away jobs from us they might want to think about that!

Down here you can see the transcript of the video. There is one part missing tho, because I really could not understand what the second man they interviewed was saying sorry! Also I only did the first part but you can find the second on my classmate Hannah's blog here Hannah's blog

Anchor:Five states have now enacted strict immigration laws, Arizona began to upper last year but since that Utah, Indiana, Georgia and now Alabama have joined the ranks. And It turns out that they are already feeling the pitch. See last week we told you about the Hispanic populations were fleeing from Georgia before this law goes into effect on July 1^st. And farmers instantly found themselves without a work force to pick their crops. (They switch over to a field where a worker comments on the new law)

Hispanic field worker: “ Some of us is going to be on the field, going to spoil. Some people is going to lose a lot of money.

Anchor: Well now Alabama who's law is said to be the strictest in the Nation,they are expecting the same thing.

Speaker: Gathering the things we like on our diner is hot, hard work and somebody has to do it.

Man: Sometimes it's difficult to find local uh folks that are willing to do the some of these jobs.

Speaker: That's what we've found at about half a dozen south Baldwin farms, Immigrant... (switches over to anchor again)

Anchor:Alabama's law criminalizes not only employing undocumented immigrants but also assisting them, providing transportation or housing and renting. But the farms may not be Alabama’s only problem as reconstruction efforts are much needed after tornadoes tore through Tuscaloosa just weeks ago.And out of the kids of this bill said it's meant to put Alabamians back to work but really do that work. Or does this once again show that undocumented immigrants are a backbone of this economy. Here to discuss this with me is immigration attorney Eleanor Pelta with Morgan Lewis and Bockius law firm Thanks so much for being here tonight Eleanor

Pelta: You are welcome

Anchor: So you and I have spoke about some of theses laws before when it first popped up in Arizona and of course there was a lot of debate around the country a lot of people were angry there was a.. you know lot opinions that this is a prejudice law
But now it seems like that fear has actually turned into an action and that populations are fleeing these states, did you expect that to happen?

Pelta: Well I'm not surprised to see it happen particularly in Alabama. Alabama is like Arizona on steroids umm you don't have to look very far to see the venom in that particular law. Umm The law uh prohibits citizens from helping other citizens if they uh reasonably should've known that the other citizens of the state where uh undocumented umm the law requires public officials to report on school children who they think might be illegal, it really is a very vicious piece of legislation.

Anchor:That what I mean it goes is far beyond uh, trying to bring jobs back to Americans and dealing with you know what you could say with what is the undocumented Immigrant problem but the fact that.. that's just inhumane especially in areas like this where are just so many natural
Disasters you can't assist somebody if they might be undocumented

Pelta: I..That's exactly right and I think that what the Alabama law shows is that this is really a civil rights issue it is.. it is not just an immigrants rights issue. It's an issue that has to do with.. uh preserving human rights and human dignity umm I think that's really the Alabama law stripped bare.

Anchor: Well uh otherwise its sounds like it is telling you to let the person just lay there and allow them to die, it's horrible.

Pelta: And his wife and children

Anchor: where are these people going going instead they are fleeing from Georgia they're fleeing from Alabama just other nearby state that haven't enacted any of these measures?

Pelta:Well its hard to know where they're going but I don.. I don't believe that they're going home on Umm they're really just retreating further into the shadows which really doesn't help anyone it doesn't help our economy, it doesn't help us raise wages , it doesn't help people come out of the shadows and pay taxes and contribute to the economy and it really just shows the problem with this kind of state patchwork of laws umm if you have one state in enact one law and another sate enact a different law you are going to have people move from state to state instead of having one unified balance to approach that really kind of deals with the problem in comprehensive way