The Arizona Senate is moving a bill through the Legislature that would make it a misdemeanor to alert someone of law enforcement operations.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican John Kavanagh, says anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis who used whistles to alert communities there inspired the measure.
"And this does not only apply to somebody who the ICE officers are going after. This could be regular police going after a murderer, a rapist, a child molester," Kavanagh said.
Opponents say the bill violates free speech and would only empower violent ICE agents who they say have endangered the public.
The bill is one step away from going to the House floor.
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