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May 18, 2013

Show Us Your Papers!

   
A group of potential illegal immigrants in Alabama has been ordered to prove their citizenship, or risk losing their work permits.
     Farm laborers? Construction clean-up crews? Landscape workers?
     No. Doctors and physician assistants.
     The state, via former State Senator Larry Dixon at the Board of Medical Examiners, has ordered them to prove they are here legally, or lose their state permits to heal the sick and stuff.
     You can read the letter here, courtesy Huffington Post.
     And I presume one of those getting the letter is Doctor-Governor Bentley.

3 comments:

  1. Hasn't Larry Dixon been a double-dipper for many, many years?

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  2. He's no longer in the legislature, so not now anyway. But when he was, and also held the Board of Medical Examiners position there were allegations of double dipping, yes.

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  3. Of course--getting two paychecks from the state! That's the defination of double-dipping!

    He's not the only one; it occurs on both sides of the aisle.

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