PHOENIX — This election, voters in Arizona will decide whether to approve a new ballot measure that would beef up the power of local officials to enforce federal immigration law.
Proponents of the measure say the state needs to act after earlier this year becoming the busiest place in the country for border patrol encounters along its border with Mexico. But critics worry about the law’s overly broad language, as well as its economic harms.
The measure, called Proposition 314, would give local law enforcement the right to question, arrest, detain and prosecute anyone suspected of having crossed the Mexico-Arizona border between legal ports of entry…