Actually they were able to bring this law to the forefront when a rancher in Southern AZ was supposedly killed by immigrant criminals doing drug trade on his land.
What they DIDN'T tell the public is that they were wrong. The people who killed this rancher were not immigrants, and in fact they shifted the focus of their investigation to somebody in northern AZ. Without, of course, telling the general public. In fact, they are still touting this story of immigrant drug smuggling killers being responsible. LIES.
Here is a link to what is one of many many articles that use this murder as a rallying cry for the new immigration law:
http://www.mashget.com/2010/03/30/il...izona-rancher/
Here is a link to a law enforcement source saying that the suspect is in America and that the nationality of the alleged murderer is not known.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/bord...97ee2f0d5.html
guess which story was harder to find?
are we all so gullible as to think that all Mexican nationals are drug smugglers and/or drug mules? really? is it perhaps possible that people are fleeing Mexico because of the violence?
border patrol agents are sometimes the ones involved in drug trafficking themselves. nobody talks about that though.