Arizona Executive Order

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano on October 20 issued Executive Order 2005-30 Ensuring Compliance with Federal Immigration Laws by State Employers and Contractors,” which requires the state to take steps to ensure that it, and state contractors, not hire undocumented persons.  The order faults the federal government for failing to enforce the federal immigration laws “to the detriment of the business and citizens of Arizona.”  Governor Napolitano’s order acknowledges that most “illegal immigrants enter the state for peaceful purposes” but that “illegal immigration comes with many negative consequences to Arizona’s citizens as well as the illegal entrants themselves, including deaths in outr desert, criminal activity assocuiated with illegal human trafficking, unexpected financial burdens on emergency health services, and trespasses to real and personal property in our border counties . . . .”    For a copy of the Executive Order, see Download EOImmigrations.pdf

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