The face of America is changing color. The recent US census has helped to reveal a new phase in the American story.

It is now revealed in the past decade, the population of Hispanics has grown and migrated from the southwest to virtually every state in the nation.

Within that trend another fact is becoming apparent:  there are tons of undocumented immigrants working in the country.

How do businesses, schools and local governments handle the influx?  That is a subject of great controversy.

We recently reported on the issue of illegal aliens and higher education.

Now there is also a movement to implement stricter policies on workers in Illinois and Georgia.

This laws would echo Arizona and Utah’s  efforts to reduce the numbers of illegal immigrants that live and work in their respective states.

Both Georgia and Illinois’s laws would make a program called E-Verify mandatory for use by employers to check the residency statuses of prospective employees.

The bill introduced in the Illinois State government has made it out of it’s House Public Policy Committee after being passed by the Senate, while the bill passed in both houses of the Georgia state government is waiting to be signed by Governor Nathan Deal.

Debate in these states are still heated the the futures of these measures have yet to be determined.

Businesses have mixed feelings over such legislation. How about you?