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Here is the Fastest-Growing Apartment Market in the US | Huntsville, Alabama The US apartment market with the most aggressive development can be found in the Deep South city of Huntsville, Ala., according to RealPage ... Reference: www.globest.com

Citizens sharing concerns over busloads of migrants HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - There is a video on social media that shows a busload of chicken plant workers being dropped off at the Athens Walmart. The video has lots of people asking lots of questions. “We just want answers of where are they coming from,” said Athens resident Amanda Schulte. “How are they getting here? Who’s setting them up? And when is it going to stop?” WAFF 48 checked with the company at the center of all these questions, Pilgrim’s Pride. Officials said the buses are carrying workers from Athens and Albertville to their plant in Russellville. “Recently, a new refugee program has incentivized immigrants to move to our communities,” Kitchens’ statement said. As for the busses, Kitchens said, “I have reached out to the poultry processing companies and have been assured the charter busses will no longer be running.” Reference: www.waff.com NOTE ADDED BY THIS SITE: Pilgrims Pride says they wont use chart...

Alabama Secretary of State finds over 3,000 non-citizens registered to vote Allen found 3,251 non-citizens who were registered to vote, 742 of them were from north Alabama. “We got the information, we cross-checked it with our centralized data files here in the state of Alabama and found those 3,200 individuals,” Allen said. The information he’s talking about is people with alien registration numbers. Those are issued to immigrants who intend to live in this country permanently and have already applied for a green card. you’re not eligible to vote with just an alien identification number. When WAFF 48 asked Allen how 3,000 plus were able to register in the first place he could not give us the answer. “It’s our belief that only American citizens should be allowed to vote,” Allen said. “Non-citizens, whether their legal or illegal cannot register to vote. It’s a federal offense.” To vote here in Alabama you need one of these things: a driver’s license, a passport, a voter phot...