People can expect, as one of its first acts of business, for the Legislature to pass immigra­tion reform in the state of Ala­bama.

And since some, and I em­phasize some, of my colleagues in the national media love sto­ries that reinforce stereotypes of Alabama as a racist state, we can probably anticipate some commentary from outside the state's borders.

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