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An array of Jewish groups expressed their dismay at the passage of Arizona's restrictive new immigration enforcement law.
Three national Jewish groups urged Arizona's governor to veto a bill that would force local authorities to enforce federal immigration law.
If passed, the bill "would make state and local law enforcement officers' jobs nearly impossible, and would bring us further from, not closer to, the goal we all share of making our communities safer," said the letter sent Monday from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to Gov. Jan. Brewer, a Republican. "It would also cause hardship to countless Arizona residents -- U.S. citizens, legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants alike -- who if this law is passed will live under a cloud of suspicion and fear."