Source: Reuters

Another foreign auto executive was arrested, the second one in a week. This time it was a Honda Motor Co. Japanese executive on assignment at the company’s Lincoln, Alabama, factory was issued a citation. The state’s immigration law requires proper identification to be produced during routine traffic stops. Those suspected of being in the country illegally can be detained.

Alabama, a non-union state, has gone from zero production in the automobile industry to number five in the nation, thanks to foreign companies.

Daimler-Benz opened the first Alabama automobile plant in the early 1990s, followed by Honda in 1999, employing 4,000 local workers, producing 300,000 vehicles a year and a $1.4 billion investment.