Latter Day Saints faithful wrestle with illegal immigration

“It is hardly surprising that the main sponsor of the Arizona Legislature’s get-tough immigration measure is the indomitable Russell Pearce, a state representative from Mesa. Pearce has been the face of the anti-immigrant movement across Arizona - co-author of Proposition 200 in 2004 and a vocal proponent of putting both a fence and National Guard troops along the border.

But before that measure ultimately passed and was sent on to the governor, several fellow Republican lawmakers rose in dissent, countering with a more modest and less costly measure, one that didn’t call for the state to finance a radar fence along the border or pay for the National Guard. The alternative legislation also dropped language making Arizona’s undocumented immigrants guilty of felony trespass.”

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