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State Legislatures Focus on Immigration
Arizona and Beyond
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Immigration: Arizona through its recent immigration bill (SB 1070 ) was not the only state considering immigration legislation. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures , recently 45 state legislatures have considered 1,180 bills and resolutions relating to illegal immigration. The following are only a few examples:
South Carolina H4919 , entitled the "Illegal Aliens Enforcement" bill, was introduced on April 29, 2010 and is before the House Committee on Judiciary. This bill seeks to provide for procedures for verification of a person’s immigration status under certain circumstances and to provide for the warrantless arrest of persons suspected of being present in the U.S. unlawfully; creating the offense of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document; and to create the offense of unlawfully hiring and picking up workers at different locations while impeding traffic, among other changes.
Pennsylvania H.B. 2479 was introduced on May 5, 2010 as the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act," is intended to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all agencies of the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions and to work together to discourage and deter the unlawful entry, presence and economic activity, by persons unlawfully present in the U.S. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the authors of this bill intend to "follow Arizona's lead and 'protect its borders and citizens' by giving local and state police more power to arrest, detain and eventually deport foreigners who have entered the state illegally and don’t have proper registration papers."
Idaho SB 1271 , which cleared Idaho's Senate committee in March, takes aim at employment of undocumented immigrants by prohibiting the manufacture of false identification and use of false identification by all persons to obtain employment and by providing criminal sanctions for employers who knowingly employ person using false identification.