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For all their tough talk about cracking down on illegal immigration, Indiana legislators actually passed only two pretty weak measures, one denying in-state tuition at state-supported universities and the other revoking some tax credits for businesses that hire illegal immigrants. That doesn't mean the critics have been silenced or mollified:

The ACLU of Indiana is filing a lawsuit on behalf of foreign-born people Wednesday over immigration laws Gov. Mitch Daniels recently signed.

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Opponents said the regulations that passed should have been left to the federal government.

Yeah, well, that's a phony argument. Those opponents don't want regulations from any level. Or do you think they would be happy to go along if the federal government got serious and started cracking down.? Me neither.

Indiana is far from the only state to have huffed and puffed then backed down on illegal immigration. And much of the credit is being given to business interests:

Business owners came out of the woodwork in a way they hadn't done before," said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of mostly small-business owners who support immigration reform.

Many Florida businesses said they feared the economic damage that would be caused if the state were hit by a tourism boycott like the one immigrant rights groups organized against Arizona.

In Arizona, 60 top executives signed a letter to Arizona's Senate president, asking for a moratorium on immigration bills.

Indianapolis-based drug maker Eli Lilly was among those who publicly opposed an Arizona-style bill. Last week, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law more modest bills: the in-state tuition.

Business and the ACLU. Talk about your unholy alliance.