Arizona Republicans Want to Give Citizens License to Shoot Migrants
Proposed legislation refers to people trespassing on private land, but everyone knows what it’s really about.
Stoking fear and hate.
Photographer: Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images North AmericaArizona Republicans produced legislation last week that would legalize shooting and killing trespassers on private land. Essentially, they took an existing law that allows someone to shoot a home invader and extended it outside to the property line — even if the property extends for hundreds of acres.
The bill, which passed the House and moved to the Arizona Senate, makes no specific mention of migrants. But everyone knows what the legislation is really about. A Feb. 27 headline in Axios got right to the point: “Arizona GOP advances bill legalizing killing undocumented migrants on suspicion of trespassing.”