Kansas lawmakers may be close to wrapping up this session but not if shit like this keeps coming up at the eleventh hour.
Kansas state Rep. Anthony Brown tried to amend a budget bill to include the newly passed, Kris Kobach penned Arizona immigration law, which gives Arizona police the power to arrest anyone they believe to be
immigrants (with "reasonable suspicion," of course) who cannot show
proof of citizenship during the course of a law enforcement action, such
as a traffic stop.
Brown's immigration play came at 1:30 a.m. Saturday and failed due to procedure -- you can't attach policy to appropriations.
Brown, like a good movie villain, threatened to pick up the fight another day.
As for Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State candidate University of
Missouri-Kansas City law professor told Mother Jones that he'd
been contacted by Kansas lawmakers about implementing the Arizona
law here. He didn't name names but looks like Brown is the one.
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As a white, AZ native whose family has been here more than 100 years, I KNOW this a racist law. Republicans are dividing and conquering once again, displacing the fear that the ghosts we have created will sneak under our tent flaps in the night and strangle us! No way, Joseph! Of course WE ALL benefit from the cheap, paranoid labor of the Latino in this country. Then, since we underpay them, we have to chip in for their medical care. That is the economics of it! (as business privatizes profit and socializes the expenses) What the hell are you people afraid of? Drug wars? then put the attention at the border, not on harassing every hard working brown skinned person. Sheriff Arpaio's thugs are already telling people to leave, even the descendants who were in the state before us whities invaded. Some people think it's a Mormon plot, to clear the brown skins out of here so LDS can inherit the Promised Land. Is it? Or just the paranoid throes of a dying tribal concept? Grow up! It's not Us versus Them. We are all in this together! Look who is behind this legislation. The KKK is right under the surface of those shiny Ivy League degrees.
What a dick AND a waste of time. Why not wait until Kris and Brownshirt take over the state?
Way to go, Brown! Keep pressing to get this into Kansas law. I'm sure Arizona would appreciate the support.
This is just a law that gives the state the ability to enforce existing federal law. But, for whatever reason, the feds won't enforce it, so time for the states to do it.
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