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| Senator Russell Pearce speaks to the Arizona Red Mountain Tea Party members at East Valley High school in Mesa, Arizona, 03/19/12. (photo: Tim Hacker) |
21 July 2012
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American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has released thousands of
e-mails that it says proves Arizona's controversial immigration law was
racially motivated.
The e-mails, acquired through a public records request
to the state Legislature, are to and from former senator Russell
Pearce, who authored Senate Bill 1070.
The ACLU included dozens of those e-mails as part of a
legal filing this week, asking U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton
to prevent a key part of SB 1070 from going into effect.
The e-mails from Pearce in the court documents include
statements like, "Can we maintain our social fabric as a nation with
Spanish fighting English for dominance ... It's like importing leper
colonies and hope we don't catch leprosy. It's like importing thousands
of Islamic jihadists and hope they adapt to the American Dream."
They include statistics such as "9,000 people killed
every year by illegal aliens," and "the illegal aliens in the United
States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of non-illegal
aliens."
Pearce did not return calls seeking comment. While all
the e-mails were sent from Pearce's personal or legislative e-mail
address, it is unclear if they were all his own words or if some of the
statements were taken without attribution from other individuals.
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