Thread: CO Gov. Bill Owens signed four immigration bills into law

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By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News
May 30, 2006
Gov. Bill Owens signed four immigration bills into law this afternoon that target human smugglers, human traffickers and people who make fake identification documents.
* Senate Bill 110, sponsored by Sen. Tom Wiens, R-Castle Rock, creates a $50,000 civil fine for making counterfeit identification documents and pays for a law department investigator. Revenues from collected fines would go to immigration enforcement.

* Senate Bill 20, sponsored by Sen. Peter Groff, D-Denver, makes human trafficking — selling adults into indentured servitude or prostitution — a state felony.

* Senate Bill 206, also sponsored by Groff, makes human smuggling — sneaking an illegal immigrant into the country — a state felony.

* House Bill 1306, sponsored by Matt Knoedler, R-Lakewood, requires an audit of a 2003 law that limits the use of identification issued by foreign governments.

Owens has already signed into law Senate Bill 90, which directs police to notify immigration officials if they have reasonable cause to believe that an arrestee for offenses other than domestic violence or minor traffic violations is an illegal immigrant. Two other immigration bills are awaiting the governor's action.

I must be very blind because I thought that forging official documents was already a crime??

Thought that human smuggling was a crime??
What's so special about yet another law when the first wasn't enforced?

Somebody please explain this to me.

Are they bored and just feel like adding more crap to the already bloated gov.?

Election year

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this phoney another CFR member?