Fact Sheet: Setting the Record Straight on Border Crime
Border States Are Safe Today and Only Getting Safer
Ann Garcia June 2010
Center for American Progress

Officeholders and candidates in Arizona who support the state’s draconian new immigration law have justified it with hyperbole, exaggeration, and falsehoods about Arizona’s crime rate. Gov. Jan Brewer has colored recent speeches with images of “murder, terror, and mayhemâ€