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Delph, R-Carmel, authored Senate Bill 590 to follow the example set by Arizona, which last year became the first state to put enforcement of federal immigration laws into the hands of state and local authorities.

The bill easily passed the Senate in February by a vote of 31-18. But it has been stalled so far in the House.

Rep. Bill Davis, R-Portland, chairman of the House Public Policy Committee, said he has not decided whether to give the bill a hearing when his committee holds its final meeting of this session Wednesday.

He had concerns, he said, that the bill might lead to profiling -- with people who are here legally singled out by police because they look or sound foreign.

House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said he expects it will get a hearing but also indicated he has reservations about the bill's impact.

He said he shares the frustration of many that the nation's borders are porous.

"This is Congress' job to fix that, and they haven't done it, Republican or Democrat," he said.

But, Bosma said, "I am uncomfortable after speaking with a student who is here on an education visa -- the fact that that person would have to have perhaps their passport on them 24-7 so they can prove who they were and why they were here."

And, he said, he's heard from some of Indiana's leading businesses -- Eli Lilly and Co., Guidant and Cummins -- which are concerned that their foreign-born employees could be harassed simply because they do not look or sound like Hoosiers.

"Putting these individuals in a position of having to, without committing any other crime, prove their legal residency here has given many folks concern," Bosma said.

The legislature, he said, has to find that cheap nike mens acg sandals 2011 "very delicate balance" to address illegal immigration while not hurting those who are in the country legally.

Delph said he's optimistic that the changes he's offering to SB 590, and which could be added to as the bill continues to be negotiated, will satisfy those concerns.

Among the changes: removing a section that would allow police to check someone's immigration status if they had "reasonable suspicion" that they were here legally. Under his new proposal, law enforcement would check whether a person was here legally only if they had probable cause -- a higher legal standard than mere suspicion -- to think they had committed some other crime.

"It's really a targeting toward the bad actors of the illegal immigrant community as opposed to the whole population," he said. "I never wanted or intended to burden any citizen. When I heard from legal residents and their fear of being drawn into the enforcement components, that concerned me, and we tried to alleviate that."

Other changes include removing a requirement that the state enter into an agreement with the federal government for training of State Police on federal immigration enforcement. The fiscal analysis of the bill said that could cost the state $1 million to $5 million, money the state can't afford right now.

Also gone, Delph said, would be the bill's requirement that only English be used in official documents and government meetings, though a similar provision has passed the House in another bill and is awaiting action in the Senate.

But Delph said his proposed compromise restores one of the bill's original provisions, which had been stripped in a Senate committee: requiring the state to calculate the cost of illegal immigration and submit a bill to Congress.

"It's still tough but fair," Delph said of his bill. "It's not the bill that I introduced, but the legislative process seldom allows you to have the introduced version be the version that's enacted into law."

Organizers of a coalition of business, education, religious and government leaders who are opposed to the bill -- buy Reebok ZigTechthe Alliance for Immigration Reform in Indiana -- said they need to see all the proposed changes before knowing whether the bill is something they could accept.

John Livengood, a co-chairman of the group and a lobbyist for hotel and restaurant interests, said there are "combinations that we could support and live with. Obviously, we want anything that even hints at profiling out of the bill."

There are so many "little pieces" of the bill, he said, that it's hard to give the proposed changes a thumbs up or down until he understands the full impact. The coalition remains concerned about anything that would make it more difficult or expensive for local government to operate.

"We've still got questions, but it sounds like they're trying," he said.

Livengood said he hopes that the legislature looks past Arizona to Utah, which this year passed legislation requiring police to investigate the immigration status only of those charged with serious crimes.