Arizona Legislature Sends Immigration Measure to November Ballot

The state House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that will ask voters if it should expand its ability to enforce immigration law.

The Arizona State Legislature passed a measure that will ask the Grand Canyon State’s voters if it should be a state crime to cross the southern border from anywhere outside an official port of entry.

On June 4, by a partisan 31–29 vote, the Arizona House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution 2060. The vote will send the issue to the state’s November ballot.

If voters endorse the proposal, it would authorize Arizona state and local police to arrest illegal immigrants crossing the border without authorization.

Moreover, it would allow state judges to order the deportation of those violating the proposed law.

Ahead of the vote, on its X account, the Arizona House Democrats called the resolution a new “show me your papers bill.”

“HCR2060 will not ‘fix’ the border, fight crime, or stop the flow of fentanyl,” the June 4 statement said. “But, it will cost us millions to fight in court and will eventually lose.”

A fiscal note published by the legislature’s Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee on May 31 said the new law could cost state and local law enforcement more than $41 million.

“State and local law enforcement spending would increase in terms of costs associated with arrest, prosecution, and incarceration.

“State and local public benefit and education spending could decline, but state and local governments could incur higher administrative costs,” the note said.

“Reduced levels of immigration would reduce state and local tax collections.”

In more than two hours of speeches explaining how they were voting, state representatives made their cases before the body.

“I believe this is a bill that can energize voters more so than the abortion bills being presented.”

That should be the case. However even ballot initiatives which sound good to us seem to always end up backfiring and energizing the loony left instead of our side.

Could be because the loony left is far more organized and motivated than we usually are — as strongly as we are FOR something (e.g. Donald Trump in 2020 and beyond), they are even more strongly AGAINST it. And then there’s the little matter of which side has dominant control of the “mainstream” and social media, in order to whip up their motivation even further.

Knowing the degree to which RINOs influence/control what happens on the “right” in Arizona, don’t discount the possibility that this is their equivalent of Lindsey Graham’s idiotic and counterproductive “let’s ban all abortions” decree just before the last election — the words sound good (to some) but that viewpoint is positioned as extreme by the leftists and whatever influence the issue has on turnout is a net negative from our perspective.

IOW, this the AZ RINO effort to ramp up DEMOCRAT turnout morseo than Republican turnout, in an attempt to torpedo GOP chances (Trump, Lake) in that state. Whether it works out that way remains to be seen, but chances are it will to some extent. Let’s hope it really does do what it purports to and actually does energize patriotic Americans more than it does Democrats and liberal McCainiacs who call themselves independents.

The state House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that will ask voters if it should expand its ability to enforce immigration law.

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