Lawman’s raids on immigrants spark fury in Phoenix – Sheriff Joe Arpaio From: reuters.com
Tagged: activist, Arizona, Arpaio, Maricopa County, RaidsPosted on: June 19th, 2008
Frustrated by a steady flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to take matters into his own hands.
Arpaio dispatches teams of sheriff’s deputies into Hispanic communities where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.
Now he faces an onslaught of criticism from Hispanic activists, local lawmakers and the Phoenix mayor, who call his crackdown on immigrants a clear case of racial profiling in which only people who look Hispanic are targeted.”*
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