After the Senate State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly rejected his immigration legislation, Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, said, "We put up the good fight, and I feel good about that. As they say, there's always next year, if nothing else." He added, "I think people probably have learned a great deal about the issue that they hadn't heard before."

Kris Kobach, a Kansas City, Mo. law professor who drafted the bill, said, "Obviously I was disappointed in the committee's vote. The e-Verify system has been proven effective in Arizona and Mississippi and South Carolina, so it's hard to ascertain what motivated some members of the committee." He added, "I think the other losers in the vote are the Idahoans who are out of work," saying if undocumented workers were displaced from their jobs, it'd open jobs for legal residents who are out of work. During the testimony, however, Ken McClure, attorney for the Milk Producers of Idaho, told the panel, "People do not flock and stand waiting on line for work as milkers in dairies."

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