Reforming the immigration policy of the United States is a subject of political discourse and contention. Immigration has played an essential part in American history,as except for the Native Americans,everyone in the United States is descended from people who migrated to the United States. Some claim that the United States maintains the world's most liberal immigration policy.
Thomas Liddy is an American attorney and political candidate in Maricopa County,Arizona. He is the son of the Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy.
Kris William Kobach is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the attorney general of Kansas since 2023. He previously served as the 31st secretary of state of Kansas from 2011 to 2019. A former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party,Kobach rose to national prominence over his support for anti-immigration advocacy,including involvement in the implementation of high-profile anti-illegal immigration ordinances in various American cities. Kobach is also known for his calls for stronger voter ID laws in the United States. He has made claims about the extent of election fraud in the United States that some studies and media have said are unsubstantiated.
Joseph Michael Arpaio is an American former law enforcement officer and politician. He was the Sheriff of Maricopa County,Arizona for 24 years,from 1993 to 2017,losing reelection to Democrat Paul Penzone in 2016.
Richard Anthony Paez is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Andrew Peyton Thomas is an American politician,author and former attorney. He was the county attorney for Maricopa County in Arizona from 2004 until April 6,2010. During his term in office,he was known for his anti-illegal immigrant policies. On April 10,2012,Thomas was disbarred by a disciplinary panel of the Arizona State Supreme Court for his actions as county attorney.
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician and author who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,Brewer is the fourth woman to be Governor of Arizona. Brewer assumed the governorship as part of the line of succession,as determined by the Arizona Constitution,when Governor Janet Napolitano resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Brewer had been Secretary of State of Arizona from January 2003 to January 2009.
Russell Keith Pearce was an American far-right politician who was a Republican (GOP) member of the Arizona State Senate. He rose to national prominence as the primary sponsor of Arizona SB1070,a controversial anti-illegal immigrant measure that was signed into law in 2010. He was elected President of the Arizona Senate when the Senate began its January 2011 term but then suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune when he was ousted in a November 2011 recall election,the first legislator in Arizona history to be so removed from office. He served as Vice-Chair of the Arizona GOP,but he resigned the position in September 2014 after controversy over a eugenicist comment about forced sterilization of poor women on Medicaid.
Thomas Charles Horne is an American politician,attorney,businessman,and activist who has served as the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction since 2023 and previously from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party,he was Attorney General of Arizona from 2011 to 2015. Horne ran for reelection as Attorney General but lost to Mark Brnovich in the 2014 Republican primary.
Earl Hamblin Carroll was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Mary Helen Murguia is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona from 2000 to 2011.
Grant Murray Snow is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as Chief U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Snow was previously a state court judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2008.
Neil Vincent Wake is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is a law enforcement agency in Maricopa County,Arizona that was involved in a number of controversies. It is the largest sheriff's office in the state of Arizona and provides general and specialized law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Maricopa County,serving as the primary law enforcement for unincorporated areas of the county as well as incorporated cities within the county which have contracted with the agency for law-enforcement services. It also operates the county jail system. Elected in 2016,Paul Penzone is the current sheriff of Maricopa County. Penzone replaced Joe Arpaio after his 24-year tenure as sheriff.
The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration law in the United States when passed. It has received international attention and has spurred considerable controversy.
Arizona v. United States,567 U.S. 387 (2012),was a United States Supreme Court case involving Arizona's SB 1070,a state law intended to increase the powers of local law enforcement that wished to enforce federal immigration laws. The issue is whether the law usurps the federal government's authority to regulate immigration laws and enforcement. The Court ruled that sections 3,5(C),and 6 of S. B. 1070 were preempted by federal law but left other parts of the law intact,including a provision that allowed law enforcement to investigate a person's immigration status.
Alabama HB 56,titled the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act is an anti-illegal immigration bill,signed into law in the U.S. state of Alabama in June 2011.
On August 25,2017,President Donald Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio for criminal contempt of court,a misdemeanor. Arpaio had been convicted of the crime two months earlier for disobeying a federal judge's order to stop racial profiling in detaining "individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally". The pardon covered Arpaio's conviction and "any other offenses under Chapter 21 of Title 18,United States Code that might arise,or be charged,in connection with Melendres v. Arpaio." The official White House statement announcing the grant of clemency described Arpaio as a "worthy candidate" having served the nation for more than fifty years "protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration."
Susan Marie Skibba Brnovich is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Cecillia Wang is a deputy legal director at the national ACLU. She directs the Center for Democracy,working on immigrants’rights,voting rights,national security and human rights.
