Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

In 2006 he cosponsored H. Citizens Against Government Waste considered him a "Taxpayer Hero". He served in the Arizona Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975 and was a lawyer before becoming a special counsel to the Arizona state House Republican caucus 1991–92.

Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district serving from 1995 until 2011. S.