This essay reviews three books that examine Arizona’s political actions contextualized within an ongoing national debate over the how to deal with the mass migration, particularly undocumented migration, from Mexico, Central America and other regions of Latin America. The book titles tell much of Arizona’s political culture and actions propelled by the measures: Biggers (2012)State out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream; Magana and Lee eds. (2013) Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1970; and Santa Ana and Gonzalez de Bustamante eds. (2012) Alto Arizona! Veto SB 1070: Arizona Firestorm. Global Immigration Realities, National Media and Provincial Politics.
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