La Raza President: Immigration Bill ‘Would Make Living in Arizona a Police State’ for Hispanics
Friday, April 23, 2010
By Pete Winn




Janet Murguia, president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)(CNSNews.com) – The head of the National Council of LaRaza pleaded with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Thursday not to sign into law a bill that could become the toughest immigration statute in the nation.

“It perpetuates the fantasy that we can detain and deport millions of people from our country as a solution to our immigration problems and it propagates the notion that immigrants who are working hard in the Arizona economy are a criminal element to be rounded up and incarcerated,â€