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On April 23, 2010, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law a bill that had been passed out of the Arizona legislature earlier that month along nearly perfect partisan lines. The Arizona House of Representatives passed the bill 35–21 on April 13 and the Arizona Senate passed the bill 17–11 on April 19. Only one Republican, Senator Carolyn Allen, voted against the bill. Although most observers anticipated she would sign the bill into law, Brewer took her time explaining that she needed to carefully study the law. At a highly covered press conference, she did exactly what most observers expected her to do. In the aftermath of the bill’s signing, protests for and against the law broke out and lawyers for both sides scrambled to defend and challenge the law.
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Espino, R. (2013). Immigration Politicking and the Perceptions of Latino Voters in Arizona. In: Magaña, L., Lee, E. (eds) Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070. Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0296-1_3
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