Don't despair, the momentum started by Arizona's SB1070 has just begun. ImmmigrationImpact.com alerts us to a bill drafted by a state representative from Miami, and former police officer, that takes Arizona's law and kicks it up a few notches (and you thought it wasn't possible). Florida Rep. William Snyder has…
Here's another take on why local enforcement of federal immigration laws is a bad idea. This comes from The News Courier, in Athens, Alabama: The sheriff (Mike Blakely) said the combination of increased man-hours and rising fuel costs associated with taking illegal immigrants from Limestone County to a federal detention facility in…
Here's a new twist in the plot where immigration meets reform and the courts. In Colorado an Arizona-type immigration bill was scuttled because the bill's sponsor figured it would cost too much to defend it in court. According to the Denver Post Rep. Randy Baumgardner withdrew the bill he introduced…
Florida state Rep. William Snyder, a former Dade-County police officer, has filed a bill modeled after Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 that would empower police to check anyone whose immigration status would be deemed suspicious. The big difference in Snyder’s bill, however, is that Canadians or residents of 32 “visa waiver countries,” only four of which are not in Europe, would be presumed to be in the United States legally.
