Mr. Bauer's efforts at passing an immigration control ordinance here in Anchorage during his Assembly tenure were driven by the fact that Anchorage was and still is listed by OJJPAC as a sanctuary city for illegals...

A legislative solution to illegal immigration awaits action down in Juneau. HB3, sponsored by Rep. Bob Lynn (R-Anchorage Hillside) and co-sponsored by Reps. Mike Hawker, Bill Stolze, Jay Ramras, Craig Johnson, and Mike Chenault, has just been passed out of the Finance Committee and into the hands of the Rules Committee on April 3rd, 2009. The accompanying fiscal note projects a one-time expense of $15,000 for the DMV to upgrade their computer database to accept the mandated new information. With the end of the current legislative session at hand, and a special session unlikely between now and January 2010, there is a chance that HB3 could get stranded in the Rules Committee until next year. The fact that a Mexican Consulate has just opened up in Anchorage adds even more urgency to the situation.

HB3 tunes up AS 28.15.031 by making it far more difficult for an illegal immigrant to get an Alaska driver's license or any other official state ID