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>> it's rare for a nonincumbent candidate to incite this kind of passion, especially protests. this early on. >> reporter: one reason phoenix itself, ground zero for the immigration debate since 2010 when former governor jan brewer signed sb-1070, the controversial law that authorizes law enforcement to stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. notably absent arizona's republican governor and two republican senators. >> i think mr. trump maybe should realize that we in arizona, we want a secure border and we have to have a secure border, but we cherish and love our hispanic citizenry. >> reporter: phoenix, a two-day stop where trump rallied thousands of supporters in a 1 hour 10-minute speech taking on immigration as well as obamacare. >> we've got to repeal it and replace it with something good. if you people go with bush you're going to lose.
for any number of people race nationality, and any number of other things. and isn't this also bad politics? i mean, the gop's supposed to be reaching out. i mean look at this. >> it's bad politics reverend and also bad economics. you've got to sue the heck out of this let it reach the supreme court. i'm also going to call on businesses to boycott indiana. think back to a couple of years ago when arizona passed sb 1070 and what did latino serving groups and businesses and people who supported latinos and immigrants do? they said arizona, we are not going to do business with you. and i think the mighty dollar needs to speak with regards to indiana. we need to attack this problem from many angles. courts economics, politics, and social media. i don't agree with a lot of what miley cyrus does or says but god bless her for what she did on instagram.
mellon, the law has been clear that states generally can't sue the federal government. and you remember the arizona case that sb-1070 show me your papers. in that case even the chief justice and justice kennedy joined some of the more liberal members of the court to say that the president's exercise of discretion not to deport some people or to delay their deportation trumps a decision by the state to protect itself. i would have a hard time if i were representing texas. >> very quickly because we want to move on to ask you about grand juries and what's been unfolding in new york over the past few hours. but very quickly, do you have any questions the robert court will uphold the president's executive action >> not really. it's very clear. congress has laid down guidelines, it's even said that when someone's deportation is
more comment for our viewers. this is what came to light this week. he says russell pierce, who wrote that tough immigration anti legal immigration law in arizona brought town crime rates and wants immigrants to assimilate quickly. quote, no spanish radio stations, no spanish bill boards, no spanish tv stations, no spanish ads, this is america, speak english. is his perspective, is that common within your state? >> well, even if he was the only person who had this perspective in the state, he's in charge of our schools. so even just one person would be too much. but, you know, i think look at sb-1070, the anti immigration bill or sb-1062, the anti gay and lesbian bill. we see this coming from a small faction of folks in our state. i grew up here. i remember seeing some of this early on in childhood. i hope that this is the wake-up call to our state. i mean, we should want our
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america's position when it comes to equal rights. >> josh, these things get pushed in the republican legislatures by the ted cruz wing of republicanism, which is number one, we don't care about the party. number two, we just want to cast this vote. we don't care. we would like to win, but if we don't win, it's important for us to cast this vote saying we want this. how is anyone going to be able to suppress that in the republican legislatures? >> i think it's happened in arizona right now. i think you're seeing in ohio, the bill that was proposed has been withdrawn by its sponsors. there are certain things that have tremendous grassroots energy behind them on the right. where there's resistance, business group, certain national politicians like mitt romney trying to push the party to the center on this issue. in some cases you get a lot of pushback. i think there's a real distinction to be drawn in arizona. people look at sb-1070, the
anti-immigration bill. why did she veto this but sign that. sb-1070 is popular in arizona. she's been a real survivor. made a lot of very smart political choices and held on to a governorship that she probably should have flost 2010. most people wouldn't have been able to thread the needle she did. in this case she was making a move that was correct on the policy merits and fop lar. people in arizona wanted her to veto this bill and she did. >> talk about the pushback from republicans against a veto. the most prominent republicans we were hearing from in arizona were the senators who wanted the veto, and those three republicans who voted for it and changed their minds. i dependent hear -- >> they just wanted it to go away. this is not something where you have a really vocal portion of the party that, like ted cruz is willing to die on this. there are certainly some, but
have tremendous grassroots energy behind them on the right. where there's resistance, business group, certain national politicians like mitt romney trying to push the party to the center on this issue. in some cases you get a lot of pu pushback. i think there's a real distinction to be drawn in arizona. people look at sb-1070, the anti-immigration bill. why did she veto this but sign that. sb-1070 is popular in arizona. she's been a real survivor. made a lot of very smart political choices and held on to a governorship that she probably should have flost 2010. most people wouldn't have been able to thread the needle she did. in this case she was making a move that was correct on the policy merits and fop lar. people in arizona wanted her to veto this bill and she did. >> talk about the pushback from republicans against a veto.
controversial bill to come out of arizona, sb-1070. the draconian anti-illegal immigration law that earned the ire of the president back in 2010. now, brewer has vetoed this kind of anti-gay legislation in the past and to her great credit she fought hard to win medicaid expansion in her state last year over republican opposition. we will find out this week if she's going to do the right thing this time around. arizona state senator steve pierce is asking the governor to veto is joins me now. senator, the first question is, why did you vote for this thing? >> as i've said a number of times today, it was a mistake and a miscalculation. we had no idea there would be the fallout like there has been because, frankly, we voted on the same bill a year ago and sent it up to the governor and she vetoed it. so the sponsor of the bill brought it back again this year
in 2012. you probably remember her for signing the last massive controversial bill to come out of arizona sb-1070, the antiimmigration law that earned the ire of the president in 2010. brewer has vetoed this kind of legislation in the past and to her great credit she fought hard to win medicaid expansion in horror state over republican opposition. we'll find out this week if she's going to do the right thing this time around. steve pierce who are is one of the legislators who voted the bill and is now asking the governor to veto it joins me now. senator, the first question is why did you vote for this thing? >> as i've said a number of times today, it was a mistake and a miscalculation. we had no idea there would be the fallout like there has been because frankly we voted on the same bill a year ago and sent it up to the governor and she vetoed it. so the sponsor of the bill