Political rhetoric meets economic reality again, this time in Dorothy's Kansas.
Gov. Brownback, it’s time to step up on immigration - KansasCity.com: "The Kansas Business Coalition met with about 70 legislators Wednesday in Topeka. They represented the livestock and dairy industries, builders and contractors, agribusiness, the Kansas Economic Progress Council, along with the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, to name just a few.
The coalition pegged the proposals for what they are: unfunded mandates that would cripple already cash-strapped city and county budgets. They’d create minefields of potential lawsuits and stymie businesses with costly, bureaucratic regulations.
The group wasn’t coming from a kumbayah, soft-on-illegal-immigrants stand. Its goal is to educate people about the potential business costs, legal implications and fiscal realities."
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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