This is nothing more than a logical consequence of allowing for-profit prisons and a captured legislative system. I've been expecting this sort of thing for some time. Nonetheless, it still raises the hair on the back of my neck.

NPR reports:

What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.

The law could send hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to prison in a way never done before. And it could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to private prison companies responsible for housing them.

They came for the drug users. I wasn't a drug user so I did nothing. They came for the illegal aliens. I wasn't an illegal alien so I did nothing. They came for the Muslims. I wasn't a Muslim...