Arizona Immigration Law Donations: $500,000 Comes In To Support Law

PHOENIX — Retirees and other residents from all over the country were among those who donated nearly $500,000 to help Arizona defend its immigration enforcement law, with most chipping in $100 or less, according to an analysis of documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The donations, 88 percent of which came through the Arizona defense fund's website, surged this week after the federal government sued Tuesday to challenge the law. A document from Gov. Jan Brewer's office showed that 7,008 of the 9,057 online contributions submitted by Thursday morning were made in the days following the government's filing.

Website contributions came from all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, including nearly 2,000 from Arizona. Donations ranged from $5 to $2,000, with the vast majority between $10 and $100.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/09/arizona-immigration-law-d_n_640464.html

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Sorry if this was already posted, I didn't see it. Anyway, the comments on Huffpo are kind of disturbing to me..

A bad economy just makes a breeding ground for scapegoating.

also by TV preachers. The internet just makes it easier to reach them than it used to be.

it's going take more than half a milly to defend this krapola.

Our pandering politicians deserve the smackdown they are going to get when the tourism industry escorts them out the doors...