Blunt's plan gets to the heart of illegal immigration
By MIKE HENDRICKS

The Kansas City Star

If those boobs in Congress had done their jobs, we’d have an immigration reform package on the books this Labor Day. Instead, the illegal immigration mess continues.

That partly explains why Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt was in Kansas City and St. Louis last week promoting his own crackdown on illegal immigration. If the feds weren’t going to do it, he was, Blunt said.

The part of his plan that got the most attention, of course, was the announcement that the Highway Patrol and other state law enforcement agencies will start verifying the immigration status of people they arrest.

Made sense to me when I heard it. But Hispanic groups were concerned about discrimination.

“It can lead to racial profiling,â€