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With us who co-sponsored the bill everyone is fighting about right now. the question i have for you, senator, the people who put this law into effect, which is causing so much alarm, argue that they had to do it because the federal government, the feds as we call them, refuse to enforce any kind of border control, refuse to enforce immigration law, so somebody at the state level on the border, like arizona, had to do it. your response? >> this bill has absolutely nothing to do with the border. i...

Somebody looks suspicious? because they might look hispanic, because they might have eyes that look shifty. its impossible to enforce. its an invitation to lawsuits and real tension. thirty percent close to arizonas population is hispanic that have been there for generations. >> right. let me ask you one more thing politically in terms of the timing. representative -- republican senator lindsey graham, he supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. but he warns this is not the time fo...

This bill simply is about racial profiling and focusing on hispanics in the state of arizona. its a civil libertarian nightmare and balconizes immigration policy in the united states. so their arguments are false at best. they are full of deception. they dont focus on the issue that we have frankly before us. we all support immigration reform. we support border enforcement. we recognize that we have to get control of the borders. were not blind. we realize whats going on in mexico, but that was ...

They dont focus on the issue that we have frankly before us. we all support immigration reform. we support border enforcement. we recognize that we have to get control of the borders. were not blind. we realize whats going on in mexico. but that was exploited particularly the murder of a rancher, exploited by proponents. >> theres a half million people in the state of arizona who are there illegally in this country illegally. you deny the connection between that and the immigration issue? >> not...

Latinos and the question of immigration, i think its beyond latinos, its for everybody in this country. there is a problem in the latino community. they see it as a civil rights issue of their time. when u.s. citizens and legal permanent residents of the united states are getting captured in raids simply because of where they are, detained unlawfully and against their constitutional rights, there are a couple hundred cases of this across the country, it is fundamentally wrong to be a second clas...

Saying we have a problem, weep need to secure our borders, we all can agree on that. instead of going to the border using this money to actually do border enforcement theyre targeting undocumented folks but just by the way they look at them. again, we dont know what an undocumented person looks like. thats what the governor is saying. >> regarding the undocumented part, republican senator russell pierce says opponents of this law are using racial profiling as a cover for their real concern which...

Enforcement officer who is only trying to do their job to ask that person that might be an american citizen but just isnt carrying their paperwork. i love to go to arizona. im an arizona diamondbacks baseball fan. if i go there, im just concerned with my beard, im the only hispanic governor, theyre going to ask me for my papers. this just doesnt make sense. and hopefully, hopefully there will spur what this will spur, rachel, is what the congress has failed to do. and that is comprehensive immig...

Does not -- or cant explain where theyre at or why theyre in the country, then hes got now reasonable -- reasonable suspicion to go to the next level, which is then to ascertain the immigration status of that individual. the law will also prohibit -- >> do you think thats enough, governor? do you think thats enough protection? >> first of all -- and i respect the fact that the senator lost a constituent. this -- this rancher was very close to new mexico. its on our border. now, what i did was i ...

Potentially racial profiling. its going to mean massive, i think, problems with our neighbor in mexico. theyre going to react to this. but its also not going to protect border safety. what we need is comprehensive immigration reform. what it does show is the frustration of a lot of arizonans that recognize we do need comprehensive immigration reform, more border enforcement, more national guard, more border patrol, earned legalization. make those citizens -- those americans that are here, be p...

Immigration enforcement. and not only every attack, but every attempted attack. so the blind shank, if we go back and look at the 9/11 tapes, you can see that mohammed atta, coming through the airport in miami, pre9/11, could have been stopped, if proper immigration enforcement had been put in place. jon: last question, do you see the mood for that, do you see the teams to build that kind of a program in washington? >> i think we saw under president bush an attempt to have a balanced approach fo...