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April 25, 2008

How Mississippi passed the country’s biggest crackdown on immigrant workers

The Institute for Southern States, 4/25/8 Over the last few years, a quiet but powerful alliance in Mississippi of African-American lawmakers, immigrant rights advocates and labor unions had successfully defeated a series of punitive bills aimed at the state’s fast-growing Latino and new immigrant population. But last month, that string of victories came to an…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 25, 2008

Barbour signs conservative bond package

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 4/25/8 Bond bills totaling $97.4 million, including funds for universities and colleges in Northeast Mississippi, have been signed into law by Gov. Haley Barbour. The bulk of the those bond bills was signed Wednesday afternoon. The package included $7 million for the University of Mississippi, including $2 million for the…