Russell Pearce, the Arizona state senator who fathered the nation’s most unforgiving legal sanctions on immigrants — including what came to be known as the “show me your papers” law — has died.
State senator sponsored law that required police to check the identity papers before he was removed from office.
While his stardom would prove short-lived, his legislative strategy to rid his state of immigrants who entered the country illegally — “attrition through enforcement” was how he described it — culminated in 2010, when he successfully sponsored Senate Bill 1070. It inspired copycat bills across the country.
After the bill’s passage in Arizona, Pearce, in January 2011, was elected president of the Arizona state Senate, where he had been serving since 2006. Eleven months later, though, he was booted from office, ending an ouster campaign that had at first appeared quixotic. He was the first Arizona lawmaker to lose his job as a result of a recall petition.
Other curbs on immigrants were modified by a shrinking Republican majority in the state Legislature under pressure from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and from business and civic leaders who said Arizona’s anti-immigrant image was bad for business.
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