Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce: ‘We don’t need immigration reform … we need immigration enforcement’
Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce was the primary sponsor of Arizona’s immigration law, S.B. 1070. However, since a federal judge handed down a partial injunction yesterday in response to a legal challenge by the Obama administration, parts of that law are now blocked. Pearce tells The Takeaway that he is ready to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. “Arizona’s not going to take it,” he says, “we’re going to do something really novel, which is enforce the law.”
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