Alabama defends immigration law in federal appeals court

[JURIST] Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange [official website] on Tuesday submitted a filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] asking the court not to stay the state’s controversial immigration law [text]. The filing was in response to a motion filed last week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website], which requested that the court halt enforcement [JURIST report] of the state’s immigration law [HB 56 text] that expands restrictions on undocumented immigrants,…