Another state bill "full of sound and fury," but one apparently "signifying nothing."
California legislator files Arizona-style immigration bill | bil - News - The Orange County Register: "A California lawmaker has introduced a bill similar to Arizona's tough anti-illegal immigration law, according to news reports.
The measure by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, would make it a crime in California to be in the country illegally, according to FoxNews.com.
The freshman assemblyman, who calls himself a minuteman from San Bernardino County, had pledged to introduce a bill similar to Arizona's SB1070. However, some analysts have said that AB 26 is unlikely to go far in a heavily Democrat-controlled Assembly, according to the San Francisco Chronicle."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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