Monitor whether Mississippi actually implements enforcement mechanisms tied to this registry, and track if other states introduce copycat legislation—the difference between symbolic gesture and operational surveillance infrastructure.
This state-level immigrant registry creates a substantive civil rights concern (equal protection, chilling effects on community participation) and due process issues (potential for warrantless surveillance, database misuse). The precedent-setting nature (other states could replicate) elevates severity slightly. However, it also generates significant outrage-bait and fits a familiar pattern of immigration enforcement theater, yielding nearly equal A/B scores with A marginally dominant.