Kris Kobach donors pay whopper legal bill

Say what you want about zealous anti-immigration folks, but they are nothing if not generous when it comes to funding their cause. Just ask Kansas Secretary of State candidate Kris Kobach, who’s about to deposit a big check donated by strangers.

The UMKC professor and author of a Hazleton, Pennsylvania, law that aims to make life difficult for illegal immigrants by refusing permits to businesses that hire them and fining landlords who rent them homes, was paid $197,615 in legal fees for his work. And the town of around 22,000 didn’t pay for a dime of it, city officials told the Hazleton Standard-Speaker.