While critics examine ways to challenge Missouri's new illegal immigration law, one of its drafters says the law is on solid legal ground.

Kris Kobach, who teaches law at the University of Missouri- Kansas City and who helped draft some of the provisions of the law, said he's "not convinced" there will be a legal challenge in the first place.

Most of the provisions mirror federal law, he said, and the provisions that outlaw the hiring of illegal immigrants track closely a municipal ordinance upheld last February by a federal judge in St. Louis.

But John J. Ammann, a law professor at Saint Louis University, said he and a group of colleagues are looking at the law closely to determine ...

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