You really can't make this crap up -- during recent hearing on repealing a 2004 Kansas law that grants in-state tuition to the children of undocumented workers, Republican Rep. Connie O'Brien spoke in favor of the repeal:
REP. O’BRIEN: My son who’s a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn’t qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn’t think that was fair. We didn’t ask the girl what nationality she was, we didn’t think that was proper. But we could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country. [...]
REP. GATEWOOD: Can you expand on how you could tell that they were illegal?
REP. O’BRIEN: Well she wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion.
Case closed.
Since then, O'Brien, who is no doubt a Catholic, has red hair and drinks to excess, has refused to apologize, saying she needs "time to think."
It's safe to say that an apology will be a long time coming.