
The controversial Arizona immigration bill signed into law last week was written in part by a conservative immigration law expert and Republican activist who's a former top aide to John Ashcroft, was recently hired by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and is running for statewide office.
Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, was brought in by far-right Arizona legislator Russell Pearce to help draft the legislation that critics are calling "a social and racial sin."

