Washington (CNN) -- Where did Arizona's new immigration enforcement statute Senate Bill 1070 come from, and where is this fast-developing trend of state activism in immigration law enforcement headed now? The law has gone viral in the public mind over the past couple of weeks. Elites and special interests are in an uproar, but some polls show that ordinary citizens and voters support local and state enforcement initiatives by wide margins. SB 1070 was intended by its creators, myself among them, to provoke sustainable immigration reform. To understand how and why requires an insight into the history of the modern immigration control movement.
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Michael Hethmon says Arizona law meant to create sustainable immigration reform
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He says 1965 law set nation on an unintended course of out-of-control immigration
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Interest groups, federal gridlock led states like California to make own laws, he says
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Hethmon: Arizona law will spur other states to take on immigration on their own
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