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And, to illustrate everything that I've been talking about concerning potential abuses of this law we have:
Sheriff Joe Arpario, who has hired 400 deputies in a sort of permanent posse to search for and arrest Hispanics suspected of being illegal immigrants.
Here's an interesting read on the Sheriff's other abuses:
Crackdown inspired by toughest sheriff in US - Americas, World - The Independent
Excerpts from Crackdown inspired by toughest sheriff in US, By David Usborne:
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Sheriff Joe Arpario, who has hired 400 deputies in a sort of permanent posse to search for and arrest Hispanics suspected of being illegal immigrants.
Here's an interesting read on the Sheriff's other abuses:
Crackdown inspired by toughest sheriff in US - Americas, World - The Independent
Excerpts from Crackdown inspired by toughest sheriff in US, By David Usborne:
Hispanics in Phoenix, Arizona, live on the patch of a man they call the "toughest sheriff in America", who, in his own way, has already been implementing many of the measures now contained in the new, state-wide immigration Bill.
He is Joe Arpaio, and stands as a symbol of what mortifies so many people about the new law he is under investigation by the Justice Department for alleged civil rights abuses and of the reasons it passed in the first place. And why the Governor, Janet Brewer, signed it. That's because Mr Arpaio, 77, does better with the voters the harsher he plays it. In November 2008 he was elected to serve as county sheriff for the fifth time.
In his first terms in office, Mr Arpaio was not focused on illegal immigration so much as crime generally. He rose to national prominence by opening his now infamous "tent city" prison in Phoenix, which remains in business today and was toured by this reporter last summer. Inmates boil under the canvas of army surplus tents, wear pink underclothes and sleep on pink sheets. Some work on chain gangs.
Mr Arpaio acknowledged his tactics had meant that some Hispanics had become afraid even to go to church. But that was what he wanted. By his own calculation, he and his deputies had managed to drive as many as half of all the illegal immigrants out of the city.
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