Highway Patrol as Immigration Officers

State legislators considering reform of state immigration laws will suggest new powers for the highway patrol. The special House Committee on Immigration Reform says highway patrol officers should become arms of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency…It...

Making Hiring Illegals Illegal

The Missouri legislature will be asked next year to go after employers who hire illegal immigrants. Senator Tim Green says businesses that comply with minimum wage laws, pay benefits as well as employment and workers compensation taxes have trouble competing with...

Rise in Intolerance Worries Bond

For 140 years, Missouri had an order on its books telling people of a certain religion they could be killed if they practiced their faith in Missouri. The man who cancelled that order worries about a new kind of intolerance today. Governor Lilburn Boggs signed an...

Legislation Attacking Illegal Immigrants Proposed.

The effort will be renewed next year to let state authorities enforce federal immigration law. The House would not go along with Senator Bill Alter’s bill last year putting federal immigration law into state statutes and authorizing Missouri law enforcement...