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Brewer admits 1070 doesn't secure border

E.J. Montini is a columnist for The Arizona Republic.

Finally, Gov. Jan Brewer admits that SB 1070 does nothing to secure the border.

An appearance with CNN’s John King broadcast Thursday features the following exchange:

KING: One of the things they would say, and show me something in SB-1070 that actually improves border security. It may have -- your intention may have been, and if you had been allowed to implement it fully, you may have dealt more aggressively with immigration enforcement interior, but what in that bill would have improved border security?

BREWER: Well, you know, Senate Bill 1070 is just another tool in our tool box in regards to trying to address the issues that we're facing here.

KING: But you concede it wouldn't do much along the border?

BREWER: Well, you know, I'm not quite sure about that. I think -- well, not along the border. I think it would help in telling people that it is illegal to come into the state of Arizona, which it already is, but it's just not being enforced. And so if they use it, the states themselves were going to enforce it, that certainly would maybe give people pause before they came running and crossed the border.

What Brewer doesn’t admit (but which seems obvious to those who look at public opinion polls) is that signing SB 1070 was never about securing the border.

It was about securing the election.

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Jan Brewer admitted SB1070 does nothing to secure the border ONE WEEK after signing the bill. Check it out: