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DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS MAGAZINE
Spring 2011 - Anniversary Commemorative Issue

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Ice on Immigration: Will Mississippi copycat Arizona’s anti-immigrant law?

By L. Patricia Ice, Featured Columnist

Question: Did the anti-immigrant Arizona copycat bill, proposed in Mississippi, SB 2179, die in the Mississippi state legislature, or will it become law this year?

Answer: SB 2179 was officially listed as dead on March 29, 2011. With the help of many individuals and organizations, including the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus, and other progressive Mississippi legislators, the bill was killed, and hopefully will never be resurrected. The regular Mississippi legislative session will end in a few days and will reconvene in January 2012 with a new governor.

L. Patricia Ice

Featured IMDiversity Immigration Columnist L. Patricia Ice is an attorney and counselor who has taught immigration law at Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson, and also contributes regular immigration advice stories to La Noticia and The Jackson Advocate. A practicing attorney, Ms. Ice is a former Equal Justice Works Katrina Legal Fellow, focusing on immigrant family and employment issues in areas around the Gulf Coast. Ms. Ice trains law students in the extern program of the Mississippi College School of law. She is also dedicated to immigrants rights advocacy, and serves as the Director of the Legal Project of the non-profit rights education group, MIRA: The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance at www.yourmira.org.

IMDiversity.com is committed to presenting diverse points of view. However, the viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at IMD.