another lovely young lady, carla contreras, brought to the united states at the age of three, today carla is 16. she lives in pelham, alabama. she is a sophomore in high school, leader in the alabama dreamers for the future, an organization of students similar status in her state. her dream, to become an attorney. her family's considering moving to washington state because of this new alabama law, this anti-immigrant law. here's what she said, what carla wrote to me. "i've never really lived anywhere besides alabama. i've been here practically all my life. alabama is my home. carla cept me a powerful essay about the alabama immigration law. she said all that people swant a better future, a job to maintain them in an average way, a place that they can call home with no fear of being kidnapped by a drug dealer, a place they're not afraid to walk out in their yard. it's so hard to see how these things could be a crime in anyone's eyes. the law, this alabama law, is putting children in fear for their parents. now, tell me who on earth would want to purposefully frighten a child? in 1982, texa