C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘Gov. Katie Hobbs on Monday vetoed a GOP bill to expand when Arizona ranchers could legally kill migrants crossing their land.
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In vetoing House Bill 2843, Hobbs called the bill another example of extremists acting within Arizona’s legislature.
“This legislation as written values property over human lives and incentivizes vigilantism,” she wrote in her veto letter. “This proposal would alter traditional laws on self-defense to allow the unnecessary use of deadly force and further embolden a culture of armed vigilantism and violence with impunity.”’
azmirror.com
Very good.
In addition to being reprehensible and wrong, the legislation is yet another example of Republican racism and hate, a bad faith effort to frighten and intimidate immigrants with the threat of being murdered.
[…]
In vetoing House Bill 2843, Hobbs called the bill another example of extremists acting within Arizona’s legislature.
“This legislation as written values property over human lives and incentivizes vigilantism,” she wrote in her veto letter. “This proposal would alter traditional laws on self-defense to allow the unnecessary use of deadly force and further embolden a culture of armed vigilantism and violence with impunity.”’

Bill making it easier to shoot and kill migrants vetoed for encouraging 'armed vigilantism' • Arizona Mirror
Although the bill’s sponsor characterized the bill as closing a loophole that has led to “increasingly larger numbers of migrants or human traffickers moving across farm and ranch land,” the result of the changes Rep. Justin Heap, R-Mesa, wanted to make to Arizona’s “castle doctrine” law would...

Very good.
In addition to being reprehensible and wrong, the legislation is yet another example of Republican racism and hate, a bad faith effort to frighten and intimidate immigrants with the threat of being murdered.