{"id":9594,"date":"2011-11-16T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2011-11-16T04:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:32:23","slug":"police-arrest-13-people-protesting-alabamas-new-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/11\/police-arrest-13-people-protesting-alabamas-new-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 13 people protesting Alabama\u2019s new immigration law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10260595-standard.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/10260595-standard.jpg?resize=490%2C366\" alt=\"\" title=\"10260595-standard\" width=\"490\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 Police arrested 13 protesters in Alabama\u2019s capital Tuesday as they demonstrated against the state\u2019s strict new law clamping down on illegal immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">About 100 people, most of them Hispanic and college-aged, chanted slogans as they marched in light rain around the state Capitol and to the adjacent Statehouse where the legislature works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Some sat down on Union Street between the Statehouse and the Capitol when police approached and warned them in English and Spanish that they would be arrested if they didn\u2019t move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">None did and police arrested 11 protesters, tying their hand with yellow straps and loading them into a city bus. It was unclear what charges the protesters would face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Federal courts have blocked parts of the Republican-backed law from taking effect, but both supporters and critics still call it the nation\u2019s toughest state law against illegal immigration. The Obama administration opposes the law, which is calls an overreach by the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">After walking all the way around the Capitol one time, about 20 protesters entered the Statehouse and went up to the seventh-floor office of state Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, a key proponent of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Once downstairs, two of the demonstrators \u2014 college students from Los Angeles and Philadelphia \u2014 linked arms and sat down on the floor of the main lobby, vowing not to leave until Beason responded to their concerns. They were later arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Beason was not there and the group left a letter outlining its complaints about the law and asking state legislators to tone down their rhetoric over the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The senator\u2019s staff later told the protesters that their letter had been delivered to Beason\u2019s administrative assistant but he would not address the group because he is out of town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/police-arrest-11-people-protesting-alabamas-new-immigration-law-at-statehouse-capitol\/2011\/11\/15\/gIQACNaZPN_story.html#\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Source.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 Police arrested 13 protesters in Alabama\u2019s capital Tuesday as they demonstrated against the state\u2019s strict new law clamping down on illegal immigrants&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,177,97],"tags":[228,357,227,347],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discrimination","category-immigration","category-us-news","tag-colonialism","tag-racism","tag-racist-oppression","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/10260595-standard_9594_0bb10.jpg?fit=665%2C498&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}