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<h2 style="margin:3px; background:#000000; font-size:140%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #000000; text-align:left; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Arizona’s SB 1070 has ALEC Roots</h2>
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[[Image:Russell Pearce.jpg|right|100px]][http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/08/10947/brownskins-and-greenbacks-alec-profit-prison-industry-and-arizona’s-sb-1070 In December 2009], months before the Arizona legislature took up its highly controversial immigration bill (SB 1070), for-profit prison and bail industry lobbyists gathered behind closed doors with state legislators at an ALEC meeting where the "No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act" was approved as a "model bill" to be introduced in statehouses across the country. The National Rifle Association was then the private sector co-chair of that ALEC task force. After the bill was approved by ALEC corporations and legislators, it was [http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11120/arizona-senator-recalled-over-alec-immigration-bill introduced in Arizona by Russell Pearce], a longtime ALEC member.
<h2 style="margin:3px; background:#000000; font-size:140%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #000000; text-align:left; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More Helpful Resources</h2>
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<big>Additional resources on ALEC's corporate agenda:</big>
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