Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said that the anti-immigration law he crafted has increased Alabama’s reputation around the country. “There are many legislators in other states that are saying, you know, ‘They’ve really done something great,’” he told the public radio show “This American Life.” But an editorial by the Mobile, Ala., Press-Register complained that “such comments could only come from someone who has no real ties to Alabama but who wants to use the state as a guinea pig for his own personal gain.” The editorial said that the law “has embarrassed the governor, discouraged industry, scared legal immigrants and, according to a recent report, been a drag on the state economy it was supposed to help.”
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