California: Immigration initiative won’t make 2012 ballot

Mon, Apr 25 2011 — Source: San Jose Mercury News

A movement to put an Arizona-style immigration measure on the California ballot in 2012 appears to have fizzled. Republican activist Michael Erickson gained national attention just before Thanksgiving when the state approved his gathering of signatures for a ballot initiative that would crack down on illegal immigration in the state. It would have required police to check the immigration status of people they stopped and suspected of being in the country illegally, and it would have criminalized seeking work while concealing immigration status.

Read the story from the San Jose Mercury News