Immigrant Impact Commission Will Ask For More Time

Despite the continuing debate about immigration policy, it took two years for the Commission to Study the Impact of Immigrants in Maryland to be appointed, and the members will now be asking for another year to do their work.

The legislature enacted the commission in 2008 to put together a comprehensive study on how immigrants are shaping Maryland, and make recommendations for policy going forward. No members were appointed to the commission until this year, and their first meeting as a group was in May.

One sponsor of the commission said the panel was pre-empted by a Council for New Americans the governor created by executive order.

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