On the streets of Montgomery, the state capital, and in Birmingham, the state’s largest city, one rarely crosses paths these days with Hispanics in public places.
In some Hispanic neighborhoods they are more visible but are still cautious when talking to a reporter, lowering their heads and looking around.
Latin supermarkets and Mexican restaurants acknowledge that business is in free fall.
Daniel Valencia, who owns taco shops in the Birmingham suburbs of Hoover and Pelham, worries that he will be bankrupt within a month.
“A lot of people have left. It’s as if the ground swallowed them,” he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/26/immigrants-face-alabama-civil-rights-backlash
