(CNN) -- Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting:
In 2004, the Dane County board (Madison, WI) passed a policy which bars social workers from asking the immigration status of people seeking welfare. It also prohibits local ordinances and resolutions that bar government employees from either checking on the legal status of people seeking welfare or from notifying the federal government if that status is illegal. Wisconsin State Senator Glen Grothman (R-Madison) and Rep. Roger Roth (R-Grand Chute) are seeking co-sponsors.
The county collected $139.2 million from transfer and recordation taxes in 2006. In 2007 it was $118 million. Down a little over 15 percent.
In New York, the governor warns of a shortfall of at least $3.6 billion for next year due to slowdowns in financial services and real estate.
Arizona's budget predicts a budget shortfall of $600 million in 2008.
-- Baltimore County budget director
"If Republicans for example, were to go to Mexico City and hold a meeting and put at the top of their agenda the need for Mexico to open its oil industry to private investment because, after all, only Mexico and North Korea don't permit private capital in oil, all hell would break loose. You would have demonstrations about intervention in Mexican affairs, the newspaper editors would scream bloody murder, and I suspect the authorities wouldn't even allow the session to take place. And yet here the President of Mexico's party can come to the U.S., and begin organizing a national presence here focused on our domestic issue of illegal immigration."
-- Professor George Grayson, College of William and Mary, on the political convention held by Mexico's National Action Party (PAN) in Los Angeles Sunday E-mail to a friend 
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