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Dec 7, 2011

JAILING AUTOMAKERS EXEC * USA - Now it's happened again

* Alabama - Nabs Honda Exec A Week After Jailing Mercedes Manager Under Immigration Law

Lincoln,ALA,USA -The Car Connection, by John Voelcker -December 4, 2011: ... Just 12 days after a Mercedes-Benz executive (Hager) was arrested and briefly jailed in Tuscaloosa for not having his driver's license with him... On Wednesday, Ichiro Yada, a Japanese national working on assignment at Honda's assembly plant in Lincoln, Alabama, was stopped at a traffic checkpoint where officers checked drivers' licenses in an attempt to catch unlicensed drivers... Yada showed the officers a passport, a U.S. work permit, and a valid international driver's license. Despite that, he was issued a ticket--which was dismissed three days later by a judge, presumably at the request of embarrassed city officials... The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama proudly boasts that the state now builds the fifth highest number of cars of any state in the country--from building none at all 20 years ago... David Bronner, CEO of Alabama's pension system, noted that the state's new immigration law is "giving the image, whether it's valid or not, that you don't like foreigners, period"...

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