State Legislatures are on an Immigration Roll!

Earlier this week, I posted stories about immigration-related bills were percolating in the Texas and Oklahoma legislatures.  But state and local governments, as well all know, have been engaged in a truly explosive amount of immigration legislation activity in the last year — at the same time that immigration reform legislation has been pending in Congress.  A study by the National Conference of State Legislatures  on “2007 State Legislation Immigration” (here) shows that, as of April 13, 2007, state legislators in all of the 50 states had introduced at least 1169 bills and resolutions related to immigration or immigrants and refugees. This is more than twice the total number of introduced bills (570) in 2006.

KJ