“I believe today, under the circumstances that we’re facing, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels, and they are bringing drugs in. There’s strong information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then they are accosted, and they become subjects of the drug cartel.” —

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, yesterday, explaining the reason for her state’s controversial law against illegal aliens