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It is expected that California’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman will face criticism from her base at the upcoming GOP convention over her stance on Arizona’s immigration law.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Whitman has said that she opposes bringing an Arizona-style immigration law to California, which would require law enforcement officers to question one’s immigration status if they suspect he or she is in the country illegally.

Many conservatives want the state’s Republican Party to pass a resolution backing the Arizona immigration law, which made the Grand Canyon State the first in the country to pass such a specific law. However, Whitman opposed the measure.

“I would let the Arizona law stand for Arizona,” the candidate for governor has said.

However, the state GOP is pushing hard for the resolution.

“Kill it in Committee or on the Floor and the Republican Party will look no different than the Democrat Party” Celeste Greig, president of the California Republican Assembly, wrote in an open letter to fellow GOP party members.

Regardless of the potential fissure in the California Republican Party, foreign nationals can become eligible for U.S. green cards by participating in the EB-5 visa program. If a foreign national invests $1 million (or in some places $500,000) in an American business and that investment creates 10 jobs, he or she becomes green card eligible.