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No question that here in Arizona, the vast right wing is largely racist. It's good to see push-back against that.

I'm thinking, though, that the bigger role race plays in SB-1070 and other states' similar Model Bills is that it's so convenient to have a generally less wealthy class that's a different color, so you know who can be picked up and incarcerated with relative impunity. The contracts Arizona has with CCA, that now owns a lot of the prisons, require keeping them 90% full, which was easy to do when Arizona could incarcerate people for not having I.D. or immigration papers on them. Sometimes they could be held for weeks, until it was convenient for someone at the prisons to let them contact someone who could bring their papers. [Actual illegal border crossers have always been held in AZ prisons for weeks or months after deportation hearings, until it was convenient to drive them back to the border.] The Supreme Court is not popular here at the moment!

You may have seen this. Not directly on point, but former Superior Court judge and AZ Governor Raul Castro and his assistant reported this experience on the way from his retirement home in Nogales, Sonora, to his 96th birthday party in Tucson.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/05/not_the_1st_time_ariz_gov_stopped/

Good luck to all of us. Keep taking care of Madison, please.