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Another question is how much safer will Arizonans be with new law being enforced …
“The Arizona immigration law will likely hinder federal law enforcement from carrying out its priorities of detaining and removing dangerous criminal aliens. With the strong support of state and local law enforcement, I vetoed several similar pieces of legislation as Governor of Arizona because they would have diverted critical law enforcement resources from the most serious threats to public safety and undermined the vital trust between local jurisdictions and the communities they serve. I support and am actively working with bipartisan members of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level because this issue cannot be solved by a patchwork of inconsistent state laws.” — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Gov. Jan Brewer's predecessor as Arizona governor†
They will be safer because someone is actually enforcing the laws. I don't trust Nepolitano either. She is just an angry Democrat who wants to bash this bill because she doesn't agree with it. She also doesn't prove how it would prevent the federal authorities from doing their jobs. All she said was that she feels they would "likely-hinder" federal authorities from doing their jobs. If the feds and the state both have the goal of justice in mind then if anything this bill is helping the feds by doing much of the work for them.