phxated_wyman Arizona’s conscienceless governor, cynically ridding a wave of ungenerous and unpleasant anti-immigrant fervor, takes a trip to DC to meet personally with Barack Obama.

Based on the story in the Republic this a.m. it looks like she’s going to use the meeting as a chance to further spread misinformation about the issue:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said she will paint a picture of her state as “under siege” by Mexican drug cartels and illegal immigrants when she meets today with President Barack Obama.

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“We are the gateway to America for (cross-border) drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and crime, and we in Arizona are no longer going to put up with it,” Brewer said at a Capitol Hill hotel on the eve of her meeting. “People along the border are living in fear daily. I don’t think the president really understands that.”

Has anybody yet asked Brewer how she reconciles such language with the facts of Arizona’s crazily low crime rate?

Brief CNN interview here: