Commentary: The death of Kentucky's illegal immigration bill - KansasCity.com: "As the General Assembly burned up taxpayer dollars wrangling over a difficult budget, we can be thankful one measure that would have been both expensive and damaging to the state didn't get much traction in this year's session.
Senate Bill 6 died under the weight of its own meanness and irrationality, after citizens protested loud and long to make that clear to lawmakers.
The bill, a copycat of legislation passed in Arizona last year, called for illegal aliens to be found guilty of trespassing simply for being in Kentucky.
Thousands of Kentuckians pointed out that such a law, if enforced, would pack the state's prisons at great cost with people who would ordinarily be working, supporting their families, paying taxes and generally contributing to the economy."
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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