4/7/2008: Security News Brief: Arizona "Illegal Imigrant" law works:
Jobs drying up:

As it has become the favorite entry point for undocumented migrants
trying to sneak into the United States, Arizona has become a
laboratory for whether a state can single-handedly combat illegal
immigration.

In recent years it has barred illegal immigrants from receiving
government services, from winning punitive damages in lawsuits and
from posting bail for serious crimes. A new state law shuts down
businesses that hire illegal workers. And the sheriff of Maricopa
County, which includes Phoenix and three-fifths of the state's
population, dispatches his deputies and volunteer "posses" to search
for illegal street vendors or immigrants being smuggled through the
county.
"What I love about what Arizona is doing is we don't have to rely on
the federal government," said state Rep. Russell Pearce, a Mesa
Republican who has authored most of the toughest measures. "It has
truly woken up the rest of America that states can fix that problem."