Corrections and Clarifications: An earlier version of this column included a bill from last year’s legislative session.

Arizona is leading the pack in the hunt for migrants, now pushing to put a “bounty” on their heads.

Hunting for migrants has long been a favorite sport of Arizona’s border vigilante groups and the elected leaders who passed restrictive anti-immigrant laws in the early and mid-2000s.

The difference now is that Donald Trump has declared a nationwide war on migrants, ordering to deport all those here illegally by any means necessary.

Arizona MAGA lawmakers are now eagerly working to tame Trump’s fury over the slow pace of deportation, and what they’re proposing is vigilantism on steroids.

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Republican Sen. Jake Hoffman is proposing a “bounty bill” to pay local law enforcement for each undocumented immigrant arrested and deported.

This is no joke. The........

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