This passed June, the great state of Alabama passed a law designed to punish adult illegal immigrants, kiddie illegal immigrants, and American children who made the grave, grave error of being born to illegal immigrants. Last week, a federal judge upheld key portions of the law, and it’s already leaving Alabama a nice, clean shade of white!

Campbell Robertson from The New York Times‘ reports that, at least in the tiny town of Albertville, Alabama, some of its brown residents have reacted to the judge’s ruling by literally running for their lives:

They left behind mobile homes, sold fully furnished for a thousand dollars or even less. Or they just closed up and, in a gesture of optimism, left the keys with a neighbor. Dogs were fed one last time; if no home could be found, they were simply unleashed.

Two, 5, 10 years of living here, and then gone in a matter of days, to Tennessee, Illinois, Oregon, Florida, Arkansas, Mexico – who knows? Anywhere but Alabama.

The exodus of Hispanic immigrants began just hours after a federal judge in Birmingham upheld most provisions of the state’s far-reaching immigration enforcement law.

Among the law’s provisions: Police will be required to ask for citizenship papers during routine stops, contracts with illegal immigrants will be unenforceable in state courts, and public schools will be forced to scrutinize the immigrant status of their students. This has caused a mass exodus of Hispanics from the state. Like if the Hispanics were the Jews and the law was Moses or something, except Alabama doesn’t like the Jews either.

By Monday afternoon, 123 students had withdrawn from the schools in this small town in the northern hills, leaving behind teary and confused classmates. Scores more were absent. Statewide, 1,988 Hispanic students were absent on Friday, about 5 percent of the entire Hispanic population of the school system.

John Weathers, an Albertville businessman who rents and has sold houses to many Hispanic residents, said his occupancy had suddenly dropped by a quarter and might drop further, depending on what happens in the next week.

So, while Alabama may be cleansed of all the Hispanics, there’s still that lingering sucking sound. Only this time, its not those illegals sucking from the teat of those born here, it’s the vacuum of money fleeing the state from those Hispanics paying rent and purchasing goods in other states.