Mercedes manager from Germany arrested in Alabama for inadequate ID

[proud2BlibKansan]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver's license with him under Alabama's new law targeting illegal immigrants, authorities said Friday, in an otherwise routine case that drew the attention of Gov. Robert Bentley.

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson told The Associated Press an officer stopped a rental vehicle for not having a tag Wednesday night and asked the driver for his license. The man only had a German identification card, so he was arrested and taken to police headquarters, Anderson said.

The 46-year-old executive was charged with violating the immigration law for not having proper identification, but he was released after an associate retrieved his passport, visa and German driver's license from the hotel where he was staying, Anderson said.

The length of his detainment and the status of his court case weren't immediately known.

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[Newsjock]

1. Perhaps Mercedes can make a statement

and move its assembly plant to some more civilized state. Quick, before the Tuscaloosa police watch the History Channel and decide that the Germans are bad.

[rfranklin]

2. Vhere are your papers, Herr Hauptmann?

I remember when this sort of thing was what was held up as a an example of a police state.

[gateley]

3. Exactly. Well said. nt

[Scuba]

4. Hmmm. Full circle?

[Remember Me]

9. Ah but that was there.... and then ...

:sarcasm:

[trumad]

5. Sad irony

[saras]

6. Would he have been treated as well if he was, say, a Costa Rican manager?

I do wonder what would have happened had he been brown and Spanish-speaking.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. He'd be in Mexico by now.

[JoeyT]

12. Probably.

He'd have still been fairly wealthy and a representative of the Mercedes plant.

Had he been several pay grades down, far enough that his presence at the plant wouldn't be missed, and Costa Rican? Yeah, they'd have deported him.

[Downwinder]

7. Be interesting to see if it gets any play in Germany.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I searched and didn't find anything

yet.

[Karenina]

11. Is he blue-eyed and blond?

:rofl::evilgrin::rofl:

Germans come in all sizes, shapes and colorations, dontcha know?

Lächerlich!