Regarding immigration,
Only the federal government can determine the immigration status of a person. Employers are obligated to make use of the
federal system (E-VERIFY) to do so.
I do not believe states can do what you are proposing since it is not a power of a state to enforce immigration laws. I may be wrong, its something you probably want to research carefully.
I will propose legislation empowering the Arizona DES to audit businesses to determine the eligibility to work legally of all employees.
I very much like your proposal on police reform. It is well articulated and strong.
Regarding your tax proposal. I am not convinced that cutting taxes to businesses (especially all the way to zero) is the way to attract companies to relocate and create jobs. Businesses do not hire people because of low taxes, they hire people if they have a need to do so.
Companies do not easily relocate unless a lot of other factors are favorable to them, not just the tax climate. For example, you assertion that people will move where jobs are is not always true. As a matter of fact, this is often a big issue for companies. The bigger ones work with the local universities to fund and support vocational training or other programs geared towards educating people with the skills they need. A good example is high tech companies. They usually are located near areas with a concentration of
educated people (by educated, I mean university trained) like the bay area, Boston, the research triangle near Raleigh in NC ,etc... because thats how they get the bulk of their workforce and collaborations with local universities.
Countless localities elsewhere in the country have tried this approach of cutting business taxes and this ended up resulting in huge tax breaks for companies with not much to show for it in terms of hiring or stimulating the economy. A famous case for that would be FoxConn:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-06/inside-wisconsin-s-disastrous-4-5-billion-deal-with-foxconn
which was given huge tax breaks but never delivered. Shifting the tax burden to individuals, as you are proposing will result in a regressive tax.
Anyhow, this needs to be looked at carefully because you will be questioned on this without a doubt.
In any case, I applaud your motivation to run and wish you success.
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