The bill passed the senate and now goes to Brewer. New Times’s Stephen Lemons watched the debate this afternoon:

Ken Cheuvront (D-Phoenix) pointed out that regulating immigration was “exclusively a federal power,” so the bill was likely to be found unconstitutional. He called the legislation “extremely un-American” and bemoaned the fact that the bill will target ordinary people.

“We’re going to make criminals of folks who just happen to be grocery shopping, picking up their kids from school, going to visit relatives,” he said.

A full Arizona Republic story on the passage is here.

Will Brewer let Arizona become the harshest anti-immigration state in the country, further cementing the state’s reputation of a xenophobic and intolerant backwater? Given she’s running in a Republican primary for election to a seat she succeeded to, it seems like a moot question.

A few days ago Lemons predicted she would sign it, or let it go into law without her signature. Yesterday, though, he noted that Brewer, speaking before a Hispanic group over the weekend, told the crowd she would “do what I believe is the right thing so that everyone is treated fairly.”