Arizona sheriff’s sweeps on solid legal ground

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Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Immigration ] [ Arizona ]

“Maricopa County’s top prosecutor said Tuesday that the sheriff recent high-profile sweeps in metropolitan Phoenix were legal if his officers followed rules prohibiting racial profiling and unwarranted traffic stops.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has drawn criticism that the sweeps in three heavily Hispanic areas during late March and early April were thinly veiled immigration patrols fraught with racial profiling.”*

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