is angry about the cost of illegal immigrants. there is a lot of stuff they get away with and advantages they get from being illegal. reporter: like what? welfare, free medical, food stamps. reporter: hernandez says strong feelings about illegal immigrants has not only made him unpopular with the latino population but also families. some of my families came here and took advantage of the system, saving up money to send back to mexico. reporter: he says he s not turning his back on heritage but thinks of himself as an american first. dan simon, cnn, phoenix. make all politicians talk to william shatner. he has a way of making people bear their souls. he got an infamous killer to make a shocking statement from prison. hn. people are gonna be driving crazy in the jetta.
if an illegal immigrant commits a crime in phoenix, they wind up here at the maricopa jail. everyone has a crime story involving illegal immigrants. it happened to them or a friend or just down the block here at a suburben neighborhood. why did you bring us here? i want to show you. we re talking about the outrage that the arizonans have. reporter: this was a drop house, a transportation station used by smugglers. when cops raid the houses, they find dozens of illegal immigrants crammed into small rooms, some beaten and held for ransom. when they did a raid here, they found them, and they found a young woman who was three months pregnant. they beat her so bad her baby, she miss carried. they just punched her and beat her, and she lost her baby. this is what outrages us. reporter: this woman bought the house after foreclosure and
families are recent arrivals. they will told knee it was the first time in more than a year that people smiled at them, that a sheriff s car drove by without a second glance. you lived in phoenix for 20 years? yes. reporter: do you miss it? no. reporter: do you want to go back? never in my life. reporter: sandra moved to albuquerque because the fear in arizona was stifling. you re in the country legally? yes. reporter: you wouldn t be detained or deported. yes. reporter: why did you feel the fear? because the people make you feel that. reporter: arizona state senator russell pierce, authors of sb 1070 says his law is doing whatt was designed to do, to force people to self-deport. $350 million in saving. there s a cost to the taxpayer,
bellamy had the audacity to wear a lebron james shirt at a time when cleveland fans are burning them, burning posters, eradicating his image after he moved to miami. so when matthew showed up in a lebron jersey, this youtube-er reported he s been booed several times. reporter: when they put matthew on the jumbo screen and the whole stayed yum booed, that s when things got started. having beer thrown at me and oh peanuts flying at me from every direction. i don t take any crap, you know. i thought it was absolutely hilarious because everybody s got their own opinion and you can wear what you want. reporter: matthew was at the game with his girlfriend wendy. she doesn t take crap, either. she started pushing a guy for throwing peanuts at her.
identities. reporter: these men admit they re here illegally, but they tell you, look around, there are month americans looking for work. what kind of jobs are you trying to do. he does any kind of labor to help out, cleaning floors, laying tile. reporter: they also tell us they re not here to cause any problems. they re just hear to work hard and give food to their families. hernandez isn t swayed. this guy is paying no taxes. there s no paper trail of what he s making, so he can go apply for food stamps. reporter: for hernandez and many others, the issue is largely economic. how their tax dollars go to a system that is burdened by illegal immigrants who receive free medical care in hospitals and whose kids attend schools here, but hernandez and others worry about crime even though it is actually down here. according to the u.s. border patrol, between 40 and 50% of all immigrant arrests occurring in arizona.