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Last Updated on Thursday, 8 May 2008 12:09 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 8 May 2008 11:19
The Virginia based State Government Leadership Foundation has done some work on the economic impact, both positive and negative, of immigration on the states. From KWCH.com:
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld expects immigration to become an issue that legislators debate each year.
Many Republicans saw cracking down on illegal immigration as 1 of this year’s top issues.
Conservatives drafted a package to require businesses to verify employees’ immigration status, punish businesses that hire illegal immigrants and deny state benefits to those immigrants.
But as lawmakers debated the issue, the package got watered down, mainly because of concerns from business groups.