Gilbertown is the site of the first producing oil well in Alabama. First permitted oil well in Alabama. The first permit to drill an oil well in Alabama, the A. R. Jackson Well No. 1, was granted to the Hunt Oil Company on January 2, 1944, near Gilbertown.
Donald Trump is calling for the deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and for the end of automatic citizenship for children born to foreigners on U.S. soil, adding specifics to the hard-line immigration stance that first helped his Republican presidential campaign take flight.
Even Trump has expressed discomfort over deporting DACA participants, but Center on Budget and Policy Priorities President Robert Greenstein makes the appropriate larger point that policymakers ultimately need to enact comprehensive immigration reform that rejects the folly and inhumanity of deporting millions of people or forcing them to remain in the shadows, often living in fear.