Fernanda Herrera, a Samford University senior, says she hopes the U.S. will learn from what Alabama did in 2011 when had the nation’s strictest immigration law. People in Alabama, she says, “fought back and had a lot of that repealed.” » Fernanda Herrera, a Samford University senior, says she hopes the U.S. will learn from what Alabama did in 2011 when had the nation’s strictest immigration law. People in Alabama, she says, “fought back and had a lot of that repealed.”