- 82 percent of Arizonans, including a majority legal residents of hispanic lineage, support the law (as of the first week of May).

How do I know?  My cousin is a undercover narcotics agent there, and read the latest polling results the State has taken.

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When our family was on vacation in Phoenix, a couple months ago, I got to go on a couple drug busts (arrest warrants being served).  One was big (SWAT and 20+ officers), and the other was a small-time Oxycontin trafficker (8 officers).  They do about 2 -4 big busts/arrests a day, and they don't even worry about the corner marijuana dealer!

Forget the rounds of golf and the afternoon drinking cocktails at the pool.  Going on the drug busts (wearing a vest, of course) was clearly the neatest part of my vacation.

I learned that the Mexicans now control the drug trade in this country, and 80% of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana comes into the country over the land border.  The methamphetamine comes from California and Mexico. The Colombians, and the Miami Vice paradigm of the 80's is no more. Even the Floridians and New Yorkers get their drugs from Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and California. It is shocking. 

I also learned that law enforcement in the Southwest likes to work with other law enforcement in the region or in California, but not team up with law enforcement from the East Coast or large Midwestern cities. The reason is corruption and the old boy network "back east."  The law enforcement guys from New York, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia are not trustworthy I was told...multiple instances of the guys "back east" wanting cuts, stealing evidence, and forewarning the criminals that they are about to be busted.

Also was shown the $100,000 checks being cut and handed out to the latino informants the authorities pay down there to get the key information.  The money comes from previously-seized assets, and the remainder goes into the general funds of participating law enforcement agencies at all levels (federal, state, local).

Also saw warehouses (plural) of seized narcotics.  Unbelievable how much cocaine, heroin, and marijuana is there.  After court, it all gets incinerated, of course, but this can take up to 4 years.

Lastly, more than 50% of the drug runners I witnessed getting busted were not American citizens, nor did they have a Green Card, so I can understand why Arizonans are fed up and why they passed an immigration enforcement law.