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Proposition 200, an Arizona state referendum passed in November 2004 with 56% of the vote, requires individuals to produce proof of citizenship before they may register to vote or apply for public benefits in Arizona. more...

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The proposition also makes it a misdemeanor for public officials to fail to report persons unable to produce documentation of citizenship who apply for these benefits, and allows citizens who believe that public officials have given undocumented persons benefits to sue for remedies. Authors of the ballot measure, the Protect Arizona Now committee, wrote it because of a serious concern for lax voter registration and voting procedures and concerns that public services to immigrants from neighboring Mexico, many of whom are illegal immigrants, were too costly and Opponents called it anti-immigrant, and considered it to be reminiscent of California's 1994 Proposition 187.

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Despite a huge effort by political leadership on both sides of the aisle to defeat it, the electorate passed Proposition 200 with 56 percent of voters voting in the affirmative. Proving that immigration is an \"elite vs. public\" issue rather than a \"right vs. left\" issue due to the fact that the wealthy are more likely to benefit from increases in cheap labor while the middle class and the poor view cheap illegal immigration labor as a threat to their livelihood, the opposition to Prop. 200 was made up of a bipartisan group of elites. Senator John McCain (R), Senator John Kyl (R), Governor Janet Napolitano (D), the Arizona Republican Party, the Arizona Democratic Party, the Green Party, the Libertarian Party, the AFL-CIO, and other bi-partisan elected officials and organizations were all opposed to Protect Arizona Now. These groups spent hundreds of thousands of dollars campaigning against the will of the public. Meanwhile, the Big-Business op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, in keeping with its support of cheap labor in the form of illegal immigration, opposed Prop. 200. Tamar Jacoby, a business interest supporter opposed Prop. 200 in the Los Angeles Times.

Two separate, rival groups were supporting Proposition 200: Prop 200's sponsor \"Protect Arizona Now\" led by Kathy McKee and supported at the national level by the Carrying Capacity Network (CCN) and Population-Environment Balance (PEB), and \"Yes on 200\" led by Rusty Childress and supported at the national level by FAIR. The split within PAN, which McKee described as an \"attempted hijacking of a local effort by greedy, out-of-state interests,\" highlighted an ongoing feud within the immigration reduction movement between FAIR and the two national groups which dates back to at least 2003, with CCN and PEB issuing frequent statements accusing FAIR (as well as NumbersUSA) of being \"reform lite\" and \"undermining real immigration reform\".

The Protect Arizona Now committee was formed by Kathy McKee and Rusty Childress, who became its chair and treasurer respectively. The PAN National Advisory Board was chaired by Dr. Virginia Abernethy, and included Dr. David Pimentel and Marvin Gregory. Childress later joined a separate effort, Yes On 200, organized by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

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