Colorado's anti-immigrant law costs millions and saves nothing

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5081255

Colorado's new law banning state spending on illegal immigrants has cost more than $2 million to enforce - and has saved the state nothing.

Less than a year after politically charged debates on illegal immigration, officials are reporting high costs, no savings and unexpected problems with the new laws.

Once touted by statehouse Republicans and Democrats as the toughest anti-immigration package in the nation, the Colorado crackdown is falling apart.

"We're finding very few of the departments where these bills have a major effect," said state Sen. Abel Tapia, D-Pueblo, chairman of the legislature's Joint Budget Committee.

The centerpiece of the get-tough effort was House Bill 1023, which prohibits spending taxpayer money on illegal immigrants except in cases required by the federal government.

To figure out whether the law is working, the Joint Budget Committee asked each department to report how much it was spending to enforce the law and how much the department was saving as a result.

:boring: Who would have thought?

The only reason the {B} majority of Americans care about illegal immigrants is because they perceive them as taking jobs away or lowering pay. And they only care about them when they feel threatened. Of course, most DUers are more concerned about the humanity of paying low wages. And, of course, Corporations (which are the "more equals" amongst Americans love them because they keep
wagesdown.

The only solution is a living wage for all (legal or illegal) and jail time for employers hiring for less.

we are living the legacy of milton friedman.

who said -- that putting equality before freedom runs the danger of not getting enough of either -- putting freedom ahead of equality brings the benefit of getting a lot of both.

he doesn't mention that the poor in that scenario get very little of either equality or freedom.

Only way to go.