

Gov. Jan Brewer

Arizona politicians have accused illegal immigrants of a lot of nasty things over the past few months, but Gov. Jan Brewer threw out a new one Wednesday night on national television.

The Republican governor told Fox News she signed the state’s new immigration law to prevent, no kidding, beheadings brought on by illegal immigrants.

“We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it,” Brewer told host Greta Van Susteren live from the Arizona desert. “Everything from the crime to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings.”

It was one of many grim pictures the governor painted of what she called “violence, terrible violence” in Arizona during her national television appearance.

Watch the video below. The comment comes just after the six-minute mark. Or read a full transcript of the interview.