More News From Arizona — State Representative Russell Pearce

As even a casual reader of this blog can appreciate, Arizona is ground zero of the current debate over immigration.  As we previously reported, a tough state law so far has survived a legal challenge.  NPR has a story about one of the legislators in Arizona who supports tough laws on immigration and immigrants. If Arizona State Representative Russell Pearce had his way, birthright citizenship would no longer be automatic for everyone born in the United States. Pearce is the man behind some of the toughest state immigration laws in recent years and is co-author of Proposition 200, Arizona’s Proposition 187-type initiative. So far Pearce has pushed through a dozen or so pieces of legislation on the issue.

KJ