The Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general called Monday for a study to determine the financial impact of illegal immigration on state funding. - Arkansas

“Lieutenant governor candidate Jim Holt, a state senator from Springdale, and attorney general candidate Gunner DeLay of Fort Smith, a former state senator, advocated the study during a news conference before embarking on two-day trek across the state to promote their plans to curb illegal immigration in Arkansas.

“I think it’s time we do that study. I’d like to see that addressed at the next legislative session,” said DeLay, who said he proposed such a study in 1997 when he was in the state House of Representatives but failed to get it approved. “

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