She spoke out against the controversial Minutemen. But now, one Arizona lawmaker may be paying a price.

It started when Arizona state representative Kyrsten Sinema introduced HOUSE BILL. No. 2286, a piece of legislation that would ban groups, like the Minutemen, from operating along the border.

Ever since information about the bill became known, Sinema has been bombarded with emails from people who are angry and some who have even threatened her life.

Sinema has received hundreds of emails in just the last 48 hours.

"One person in Arizona threatened to kick me in the uterus so that I would no longer have the ability to bare children," Sinema said.

The rash of angry emails came after Sinema introduced the bill that would make armed civil patrols an act of domestic terrorism.

"It would prohibit individuals like the Minutemen organization from doing the work they do which is to gather together in the border regions and hunt for undocumented persons," Sinema said.

Many of the emails are signed by people who claim to be members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. But the president of the group says they do not tolerate such behavior.

"If Miss Sinema wants to give me the email addresses, I'll check them and I would immediately terminate them," said Chris Simcox of the Minuteman.

Simcox says Sinema shouldn't be surprised by the response to HB 2286.

"She stepped into this," Simcox said. "She asked for it by proposing a certain group of people."

But Sinema says threatening violence is not the way to deal with the situation.

She has forwarded some of the more threatening emails to the FBI and the Department of Public Safety.