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From Montgomery Advertiser:

U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson issued a prelimi­nary injunction Monday afternoon against a part of the law that for­bids state and local agencies from engaging in “business transac­tions” with undocumented immi­grants. He found that a lawsuit challenging that part of the law — Section 30 — was likely to succeed on its merits.

The injunction came out of a lawsuit brought by two Mexican nationals currently residing in El­more County. The men, who live in manufactured homes, sued the Department of Revenue and the Elmore County Probate Judge’s office last month, saying the documentation re­quirement made it impossi­ble for them to register their homes and would drive them and their children, who are U.S. citizens, out of the state.

Thompson wrote that the provision put undocumented aliens “between a rock and a hard place.”

“They face civil and crimi­nal liability for not paying their manufactured home tax, while simultaneously facing civil and criminal lia­bility if they attempt to re­move their homes from the state,” he wrote. “They can neither stay, nor can they go.”

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