Immigrants' Families and MO State Senator Discuss Proposed Bills

By Sylvia Maria Gross

Kansas City, MO – On Tuesday (May 1,2007), immigrant families and their supporters marched from Kansas City's West Side to Washington Square Park near Crown Center. The protest was in conjunction with rallies around the country for immigrants' rights and came about a year after much larger gatherings here and elsewhere. But KCUR's Sylvia Maria Gross reports this years' participants were more focused on specific federal and state legislation.

Sylvia also speaks to Missouri State Senator Chris Koster about immigration legislation he sponsored that would require local law enforcement and businesses to further verify each worker's status, among other provisions.

This story was produced for KC Currents.