Immigration Crackdown Alarms Workers in Midwest

Professor Kevin Johnson was quoted in an Associated Press article on the immigration crackdown in Ohios Butler County, which has alarmed some of the areas immigrants. Johnson, an expert on civil rights and immigration law, sees frustration growing as the immigrant population spreads into the interior of the country. We are seeing undocumented immigration occur in places where it was unheard of 15, 10, maybe even five years ago, Johnson said. So you have a situation where you have concern with immigration that creates some resentment and some pressure for local action.

July 31, 2006/The Associated Press
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