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Jeff Bernstein on 01 Oct 11THE CLEAR INTENT of Alabama's viciously xenophobic immigration law - and the likely effect, now that most of it was upheld by a federal judge this week - is to hound, harass and intimidate illegal immigrants into uprooting their lives and moving elsewhere. The law aims to do this by various means, but none is more pernicious than a provision requiring the state's public schools to collect information on every student's immigration status, starting in kindergarten and going to 12th grade.