Earlier this week, Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that Yuma County Republicans have been sending around this mailer with images of bullet holes in a stop sign, implying illegal immigrants are the cause of the violence:
In case you're not getting what the scary brown people and their guns are supposed to mean to you, there's an innocent white child on the back meant as a reminder:
Here's a reality check on the crime rate in Arizona, from the Department of Justice:
Congress also recently passed a $600 million border-security bill, which won't actually reduce illegal immigration in the long run without some kind of comprehensive reform. But this isn't really so much about immigration policy as ethnocentric signifying.
