More on Immigration Reform at the Local Level

Kate Riley offers an editorial on immigration reform in the Seattle Times:

In April, the National Conference of State Legislatures released a report showing that governments in all 50 states were considering 1,169 immigration-related bills. That’s more than double the 570 introduced in all of 2006.

Congress appears ready to take a gutless pass on reforming seriously flawed U.S. immigration policy. About 12 million workers are believed to be in the United States without legal authority. Despite heroic efforts of a small bipartisan group of U.S. senators who cobbled together the best hope for sweeping immigration reform, leadership on both sides of the aisle failed to make it happen — twice. Click here for the rest of the piece.

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