Jan Brewer's SB 1070 Speech
Arizona's SB 1070 was written by Arizona Senator Russell Pearce which was eventually signed by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Jan Brewer wrote her own speech following the signing of SB 1070 on April 23, 2010. This was a speech addressed to the citizens of Arizona. Jan Brewer felt immigration was taking over Arizona and something had to be done to find and stop immigration. "We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life. We cannot delay while the destruction happening south of our international border creeps its way north. We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act." Jan Brewer is allowing racial profiling and discrimination against people who may look illegal to authorities. Brewer thinks lowly of Mexican immigrants and believed something needed to be done about it. The is known as an extremely controversial and unconstitutional law. This has set back immigration rights in Arizona and targets people who may "look' like an illegal immigrant.