legislators across the country and really hijacking our state legislatures like the case with russell pearce in arizona and with a combination with an interest group called alec american legislative legislative exchange council together that crap that this law is seventy which was word for word what we saw in the final document and it was both interest the political interests that we have hidden there russell pearce tied to all of these nativist groups and the economic interests with these private prison corporations that are making a lot of money aside from the profits for the executives who are living comfortably in their suburban mansions or the other human stories in this. there it's really terrible but we're here and because what we do in immigrants for sale that's the name of the campaign we document how this is impacting two families we have the case one particular case. back in georgia there was a man who is married to an american has a kid here and was going through the process of his status and so he missed a court appearance is because they sent a document to the wrong address and so he missed it completely so he ended up being arrested and sent to the store detention facility in georgia which is

american legislative exchange council. alec for short. they help corporate executives literally write model bills for your state legislators.hite. here is a model voter id bill from 2009. quote, any person designed to vote in this state shall present proof of identity to election officials when appearing to vote. app n an arkansas voter id bill from this year, quote, any person desiring to vote in this can state shall present proof of -- wait a minute, thalt the same bill. the wofrding is eye dental cal. last year alone, 826 alec model bills were introduced in the states. covering everything from big oil to big tobacco. 115 of them became law. right now, alec is holding its annual conference in new orleans. where they are busy writing next year's laws. doing the work you elected your state law makers to do. joining me is now executive director of the senate for media and democracy, a watch dog group that originally broke the story. lisa, this is so incredibly blatant, it is hard it believe. >> it is shocking, reverend, on alec.org, they rewrite our laws, that's startling. the fact is that just down the street from us, right