A new Arizona law empowering the state to detain and deport migrants who have crossed the border illegally will go into effect after voters approved the proposal with 62.93 percent in favor and 97 percent of precincts reporting.

Prop. 315 will require police and border patrol agents to use the e-verify program that determines immigration status. After that, local police can arrest the individual, and a state judge can order deportation. In addition, the proposal makes it a Class 6 felony for those who submit false information or documents and raises the sale of fentanyl to a Class 2 felony if the sale results in the death of another person.

According to the proposed proposal, “the people of the State of Arizona” found this law necessary.

“Due to weak immigration enforcement, Arizona is experiencing a public safety crisis caused by transnational cartels engaging in human trafficking and drug smuggling along the state’s southern border,” it said. show in the proposal. “From 2021 to 2023, US Customs and Border Protection encountered two hundred and eighty-two individuals on the terrorism watch list who illegally entered the Southwest border between ports of entry. This is a 3033% increase over the past three years, when only nine such individuals were encountered.”

Furthermore, according to this proposal, Arizona is “actually invaded.” And according to election results, voters agree.

Rep. Democrat Analise Ortiz said the proposal is similar to SB 1070, which was ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court. This bill was passed in 2010 with the intention of reducing the number of undocumented immigrants in the state. The law required local police to ask for proof of documents if they had “reasonable suspicion” that someone was in the country illegally, leading to racial profiling.

The law was partially repealed in 2012.

Republican Sen. John Kavanagh said during a debate in September that Prop. 314 differs from SB 1070 in that police would detain people illegally crossing the border and would need “probable cause” to arrest them.

“Between the checkpoints, there’s very little police (and) that’s why the worst of the worst come, the dangerous people,” Kavanagh said. “Public safety is our number one priority.”

One of Ortiz’s other concerns about Prop. 314 is where the funding will come from. There is no funding attached to the proposal, requiring local law enforcement and prisons to bear the cost. The Department of Corrections has already spoken out against the bill, saying it would overcrowd prisons and cost about $325 million a year.

Kavanagh contested this by saying that if people are deterred from crossing the border illegally, the government will not have to pay additional costs that come from unauthorized immigrants being in the US.

Ortiz said he supports the Supplemental Emergency National Security Act, which would allocate $118 billion to expand detention facilities and hire more border control agents, asylum officers and immigration judges. This bill was rejected by the US Senate after Trump discouraged members of the senate from voting for it.

“We should allocate more money to make sure the ports of entry have up-to-date technology (and) enough agents with staff to catch those illegal drugs coming in,” Ortiz said.