Jim Geraghty has this post up at his spot at NRO.
Wow: 44 States Passed 191 Laws on Immigration So Far This Year
How potent is the issue of illegal immigration? This potent:
In the first six months of 2010, every state in regular session considered laws related to immigrants or immigration. . . . As of June 30, 2010, 44 state legislatures passed 191 laws and adopted 128 resolutions. Five bills were vetoed, for a total of 314 enacted laws and resolutions.
Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, and Texas are not in regular session in 2010.
Now Jim is a pretty straight shooter and honest political guru. He does a good job and and really doesn't spin so much just to make the conservatives look good. So I chalk this up to maybe not looking at the link.
Now no doubt illegal immigration is getting some play in the State legislatures but as you can see many of these laws don't have a lot to do with illegal immigration. As to legal immigration there are lot of laws that give money to migrant services and such.
Now there are LAWS there that try to deal with illegal immigration but to say that there 191 laws dealing with it is sort of misleading though I think it is unintentional misleading.. Also most of those 341 resolutions have nothing to do with illegal immigration and many have just a slight connection to immigration.
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