applauded by officials in conservative politics. the arizona bill that russell pierce and those guys tried to pass and did succeed in passing was known as the papers please law. that pioneering experiment in state mandated profiling was struck down by the supreme court. the author of the bill, russell pierce, got turfed out of his job in the senate. he got recalled by the voters, the first lawmaker in state history to suffer that humiliation in arizona. he was the first horseman of the anti-immigrant movement in arizona and he lost his job. the second horseman, you could say, is sheriff joe arpaio in maricopa county. his office engaged in racial profiling against latinos. in 2008 the sheriff spoke at a meeting of the minute man civil defense core.