The proposed “Mississippi Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program Fund” shows how hardline immigration policies at the federal level have influenced policy proposals in states and localities.

People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me,’ said state Senator Bradford Blackmon

JACKSON, Miss. ( WLBT /Gray News) - A Mississippi state senator has filed a bill titled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.” The bill, written by Democratic Sen. Bradford Blackman, would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

The bill would ban unprotected sex without the intent of procreation. Sponsoring Sen. Bradford Blackmon, D-Canton, hopes to make a point.