Pearce was the driving force behind SB1070, the controversial anti-immigration bill signed into law last year by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.

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Mica also helped preside over ALEC's passage of the model bill that became the basis of Arizona's immigration law.

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Elsewhere, in the Cesar Chavez Building, graduate student Francisco Baires sits in a windowless office that could have been a closet in a previous life, immersed in a different kind of work: He is sending a statement condemning Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law to the media and other opponents of Senate Bill 1070.

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Arizona's governor signed a bill that gives local police the power to clamp down on illegal immigration, which is a federal responsibility.

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