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FL/AZ/National: Are Private Prisons The Force Behind Immigrant Law

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Private prisons the force behind immigrant law? BY FRED GRIMM Miami Herald November 16, 2010 Arizona's get-tough immigration law was couched as a burst of desert populism, as if the frustrations of local citizens over so many illegals crossing the Mexican border had been translated, word for word, into Senate Bill 1070. The notion of requiring state and local policemen to lock up suspects who have no proof they entered the country legally also fit nicely with the tea party insurgency erupting across the country. Politicians in at least a dozen other states, including Florida's Gov.-elect Rick Scott and U.S. Sen.-elect Marco Rubio, have talked of emulating Arizona's rebellion. ``Let's get to work, and bring the Arizona law to Florida now,'' Scott said during his gubernatorial campaign...continue to full post

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