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Koch to examine illegal immigration
Times-Mail
July 9, 2008
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INDIANAPOLIS — Rep. Eric Koch has been named to a summer study group that will examine one of the state’s most thorny issues — illegal immigration.

Koch, R-Bedford, is one of 12 legislators picked to serve on the Interim Study Committee on Immigration. The panel includes six members of the House of Representatives and six from the Senate, and will meet and hold hearings during the summer.

The group will submit its findings and recommendations to legislative leaders by Nov. 1, before the 2009 session of the Indiana General Assembly.

According to a release from Koch’s office, the committee is charged by legislative leaders with investigating:

• The financial impact of illegal immigration in Indiana on education, health care, the criminal justice system, and social services.

• The impact of illegal immigration on wages and employment.

• The impact of illegal immigration on state and local entities that issue, or routinely check identification.

• The current and future potential of the E-Verify system regarding its reliability, accessibility and dependability.

“The federal government has failed to fulfill its constitutional obligation to secure our borders, and Americans are looking to their state legislatures for help,â€

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Way to go Indiana.....and thank you PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe and AZ State Representative Russell Pearce for forming State Legislators for Legal Immigration......it's caught on like wildfire and states are finally taking control of the issue that's been forced upon them by the inaction on the part of the federal government to secure the borders and enforce our laws.