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Other reports, mostly based on the AP report like the one above, are here:

http://www.saljournal.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/941/format/html/displaystory.html

http://morningsun.net/stories/012804/leg_20040128034.shtml

http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/159480

http://www.dodgeglobe.com/stories/012804/sta_0128040018.shtml

You can contact the KS governor here: http://www.ksgovernor.org/contact.html

I found a list of state reps here: http://gendernet.netfirms.com/quill/q-ks-g.htm

I don't know how old that list is.

The Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs:
http://www.hr.state.ks.us/ha/html/enha.html

They are part of Kansas Department of Human Resources, whose Secretary is Jim Garner:

The http://www.hr.state.ks.us/home/html/about.htm
jim.garner@hr.state.ks.us

contact info for Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
http://www.emailyourgovernor.com/ks-governor.html

Most importantly, you can contact the KS house and senate here:
http://www.kslegislature.org/cgi-bin/house/index.cgi
http://www.kslegislature.org/cgi-bin/senate/index.cgi

It would be very helpful if someone could post the current email addresses for each member of the KS legislature, as well as email addresses for groups in KS who could help make this an issue.

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This page http://www.guzzardiforgov.com/articles/art2002oct11.html
contains the following quote from Commissioner Charlie Weaver of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety: "Advocates argue that they want to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants so they will be safer drivers. This argument is completely without merit and is a transparent attempt to turn the illegal immigrant problem into a public safety issue. There is no evidence that if illegal immigrants received driver's licenses, they would enroll in driver education programs, obtain insurance, and refrain from fleeing the scene of an accident. Common sense dictates that an individual on the run from the law would not wait around at an accident site for the police to arrive."

This page http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/release.html says: "Based on estimates developed by the National Academy of Sciences for immigrants by age and education at arrival, the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative $55,200...

"This reduction in wages for the unskilled has likely reduced prices for consumers by only an estimated .08 to .2 percent in the 1990s. The impact is so small because unskilled labor accounts for only a tiny fraction of total economic output."