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Jurisdictions could ask for documentation. when sheriff arpaio obtained this immigration power, he began going after our community, pulling over and stopping anyone that looked like they were undocumented. >> there it is. pulling over anyone, laura, who looked like they were undocumented. so that then s.b. 1070 comes in, and it's popularly known as the show me papers, and it requires police officers to check the immigration status of anyone whom they arrest or detain in they believe that person is an undocumented immigrant. so from 287 to 1070, it is about the belief that this body you are see...

The latest developments show the political side over the battle over immigration reform. to truly understand the issue and the real lives at stake, you need to get on the ground in states across the country. arizona became ground zero in the immigration debate with the state's passage of senate bill, also known as s.b. 1070. though the majority of the bill was struck down by the supreme court in june 2012, the most controversial part known by opponents as the show-me your papers clause was upheld, and now a new documentary, the state of arizona, which debuts tomorrow on pbs, shows the impact o...

Border. particularly young men had come, labored, gone back. and that porous border was valuable for sort of the american economy. but then there came a time when people came and settled and stayed and had their children. tell me what the goal, the stated goal of the new policies in arizona were relative to this new population that decided to stay. >> the stated policies were, attrition by enforcement. that was in the -- that was right in the very beginning of the bill. attrition by enforcement means making life so miserable for people that they will self-deport, so that there were all these l...

>> alec's working groups have churned out hundreds of pieces of model legislation that reflect a investigation of government working hand in hand with business. they crafted bills rolling back environmental laws, protecting corporate tax breaks and weakening gun control. alec helped craft sb-1070, the anti-immigration law. it orchestrated voter i.d. laws across the country that made it harder to vote. it even worked with the nra to bring florida's controversial stand your ground law to more than a dozen other states. outrage ignited a campaign which successfully pressured coca-cola, amazon, cr...

Vote. as a matter of fact our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populous goes down. >> they can't 2000 state lawmakers as members, nearly all of them republicans. >> i've been privileged to work with alec in the federal government, i've been privileged to work with alec when i was back in texas the the texas public policy foundation, leading the tenth amendment center, and i am proud to stand with alec today. >> alec's working groups have churned out hundreds of pieces of model legislation, that reflect a investigation of government working hand in hand with business. they crafte...