Sen. John McCain on Monday asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor, if she’d had a chance to review Arizona’s controversial immigration law.

“I have not reviewed it in detail,” Napolitano said during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I certainly know of it, senator.”

McCain, R-Ariz., then asked Napolitano if that meant she was not prepared to make a judgment on it.

“Let me just say this: As you know, and are well aware, that’s not the kind of law I would have signed,” answered Napolitano, who vetoed similar legislation when she was governor. “I believe that it’s a bad law-enforcement law. I believe it mandates and requires local law enforcement and puts them in a position many do not want to be placed in. When I was dealing with laws of that ilk, most of the law enforcement organizations in Arizona, at that time, were opposed to such legislation.”