Text taken direct from the HOR website, the bill reads:

"Subject to appropriations, this bill requires the Superintendent
of the State Highway Patrol to designate some or all members of
the patrol to be trained in accordance with a memorandum of
understanding between Missouri and the United States Department
of Homeland Security concerning the enforcement of federal
immigration laws on federal highways and interstates in Missouri.

Law enforcement officers are required to inquire into the
citizenship and immigration status of any person placed under
arrest and to verify the legal status of a noncitizen with the
federal government."

Additionally,

"(3) Requires the commercial driver's license written test to
only be given in English. Translators will not be allowed for
applicants taking the test;"

Why WOULDN'T we want our law enforcement officers to inquire as to immigration status? Don't you want someone to be accountable if you are involved in a car accident with an illegal person? Since all of our street signs are in English, isn't it appropriate that applicants should test in ENGLISH???

Please contact your representative and urge them to finalize supporting this bill.

homeland security makes me feel less secure.......... i already wrote my representatives and asked them to nix this bill.

Our government is the true definition of hypocrites. They put on a front like they want change with the illegal immigrant problem, yet they give companies like Triumph the "heads up" every time they come in for an inspection of illegal aliens. It happens throughout the country. They could never strangle the problem because they can't get a grip on anything with their palms being greased like they are.

Illegal immigration is against the law. We have hundreds of laws already in place that protect us from the Mexican invasion. Our government just doesn't care about us and Macain and Obama aren't going to make it an better for us. If we have to pass one more or one hundred more bills to try to stop the take over of our country then that's what we have to do. Vote yes on this bill. The Border Patrol is under staffed and over regulate and our local police are the same. Help them, help us. As a newcomer to this town I escaped California for a better life (with English speaking Americans). You don't want your state to end up like California. It a third world, dirty, trash covered cesspool of a state with more then half of the population unable to speak, read, or assimilate to the American way of live (God, country , and respect for its laws). Thank you

This year I have been disappointed in the General Assembly. The garbage they have been jamming down our throats in order to control us more. I get tired of smoke and mirrors government. They tell us what the bills mean but when you investigate you find they gave you the business when you were not looking. Rep. Guest was correct that HB1549 has many deceptions in it to give our federal government more authority over us not illegal’s.
Parts of HB 1549 even exempt railroads and public works from compiling with the law so your local school could be built by illegal immigrants and be legal.

Many Democrats are in favor of not requiring ID to vote for obvious reasons. Illegal immigrants would tend to vote Democratic in order to receive their "entitlement" handouts that the Dems love to give out. More reliance on government handouts provides government with more power over inidividual lives, making the USA the world's largest assisted living center.

Then we should speak about HJR41, the excuse was to stop judges from upping taxes which they cannot do now. What the bill did was remove some of our common rights with a judge. Then there was HJR49 to give the governor the soul power to appoint judges. Wow! Lets give a bad governor more power than he has now. HJR48 puts the terminology of the Real ID act which would force us to have a Real ID to vote. It gets better and better the more you look into it. Last government Good (not) Thing is the dept of revenues 50 million dollar biometric computers. Kansas just past the same bill for voter ID as HB48 and just after passage the upped the fees on ID by $4 and will raise it again to up words of $10 more. Stop forcing a police state on Missourians, instead start tracking those we know are illegal’s here.

"Many Democrats are in favor of not requiring ID to vote for obvious reasons. Illegal immigrants would tend to vote Democratic in order to receive their "entitlement" handouts that the Dems love to give out. More reliance on government handouts provides government with more power over inidividual lives, making the USA the world's largest assisted living center."

C'MON LET'S BE HONEST HERE:
The republicans are pushing the Voter ID bill not to supress the illegal immigrants from voting, They are pushing it so the POOR and elderly who tend to vote Democratic cannot vote. Also, no Democrats I know support "entitlements" to illegals.

You're right - how could I be so ignorant? YES, let's keep the poor and elderly from voting; it's the republican hidden agenda. (That's sarcasm in case you missed it). Bleech, no way that we would ever want to suppress our own LEGAL citizens. I see that St Joe charges $11 for an ID that lasts 3 years. If you can't afford that, you should park your car for a day - you obviously can't afford to drive to the voting poll, either.

Are not most poor / elderly already able to provide some form of valid ID in order to vote? Of course legal US citizens of the Democratirc persuasion don't want illegals to recieve gifts (aka entitlements, handouts, etc) from taxpayers, because then they won't be getting as much for themselves.

Many elderly who no longer drive do not have picture IDs. I know of some who were unable to obtain an ID for the election this law was enforced on (before it was deemed illegal)because they didn't have and couldn't get birth certificates (another $15). $11 may not seem like much to you or I, but for some of these elderly people that may be a days food supply!
To glad: let's just agree to disagree...you stay on the right side..... blind to our economy..... and keep believing what you say about the "working class party" AKA the Democrats!!