Senate panel passes bill to crack down on illegal immigration | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com: "a Senate committee late Wednesday approved a bill that would require state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws.
Those who back Senate Bill 590, which is modeled on a controversial Arizona law, argued that the federal government has failed to do its job, leaving the nation vulnerable to terrorists and criminals and forcing states to spend millions of tax dollars to educate illegal immigrants and provide them with health care and other services."
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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