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Posted 02/04/09 at 01:52pm

Sheriff Joe’s Mini Gitmo: Local Enforcement out of Control

barbed wireRemember when "America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio launched a reality tv show? When the FOX network gave a giant megaphone to a public official known for his anti-immigrant antics and racial profiling?

Well, Joe's back.  And his latest publicity stunt should horrify every American.

The seemingly unaccountable sheriff is getting ready to round up immigrant men and women and march them off to separate "tent cities" surrounded by electric fences, according to Imagine2050.net. The Maricopa County office announced the project in a statement entitled, "Arpaio Orders Move of Hundreds of Illegal Aliens to Their Own Tent City." Well we're fighting back.

We'll let you draw your own conclusions about why Joe wants to march immigrant detainees off to their own "Tent City," but this is the same guy who prioritizes press conferences and massive immigrant sweeps over prosecuting felons (there are 40,000 outstanding warrants in his county). The same guy who's had 2,700 lawsuits filed against him for civil rights and human rights abuses.

According to blogger Duke at The Sanctuary:

Having expanded his tent facility to house 2500 of the 10,000 inmates currently incarcerated in the county jail with a newly authorized $1.6 million dollar grant from the state, Arpaio vows to fill it with immigrant detainees.

Surrounded by an electrified fence that Joe jokes will be one that immigrants "won't want to scale," the tent facility will eventually become the new home for those caught in Arpaio's racial profiling roundups.

As usual, Arpaio has invited the press to document the hour long march in order fuel his colossal ego and need for constant media attention.

We've talked about how Sheriff Joe discriminates against Latinos in his county on the taxpayer's dime (download a PDF by the Immigration Policy Center), but this latest move is surprisingly vile.

Arpaio consistently pokes fun at the idea of protecting detainees' rights to due process and fair treatment. In response to the news that President Obama vowed to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center (Gitmo), Arpaio reportedly joked:

In a surprise move today, the outspoken and controversial Sheriff of Maricopa County,  Arizona, stated that he'd be happy to take the inmates of Gitmo and provide for them "appropriate and hospitable accommodations." When questioned in a press conference what those ‘appropriate' accommodations would entail, the spirited Sheriff was quoted as saying, "Oh, you'll find out. Our recidivism rate here is nearly zero."

If you haven't already, please sign our petition to have Arpaio investigated by the Department of Justice.

If you've signed it already, please help spread the word. While President Obama has moved quickly to work toward closing down Guatanamo and defending our nation's values, we can't have mini-Gitmos inside our borders.

www.SheriffJoeMustGo.com

 

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Sheriff joe is doing what every american that pays tax dollars expects him to do and that is to find the illegal aliens that are in our country committing crimes and getting away with it.Illegal aliens are getting health care that most americans that are paying tax dollars can’t even get we have vets living on the streets that have fought for our freedom and are homeless yet Illegal aliens are getting housing and medical where is the justice in that.they get food stamps and yet americans are going hungry.Illeagl aliens are driving new cars, buying homes, working in every fast food in the country have a look next time you drive through Mcdonalds or
burgerking, paying taxes maybe under some poor americans social security number, Our goverment has double standards, all amercians must pay taxes to support Illegal aliens,Most illegal aliens don’t speak english and if thaty want to go to school to learn it is free for them but americans have to pay to learn another language, So tell me what is wrong with you people who elected Joe and now that he is doing his job won’t stand behind him.If all american that employee illegal aliens were sought out and punished for that crime instead of scamming our country, we might not have a such a problem,with terriost entering in our country so easily. you are all so eager to point the finger well pull your head out of your, asses, and wake up before it is to late, no wonder terriost blends in to our society. the goverment allows it.have your idenity stolen and see how you feel then,

  • 04-03-10 By Sick of illegals

These law enforcement officers are supposed to protect and serve the public, not act just hate crazed criminals even worse than the people they are supposed to protect us from.
Why are they allowed to ubuse and treat people like animals.If all the law enforcement offciers started acting this way.We might as well have no police and give everyone a gun. IT makes me sick.
This is worse they are getting paid to break the law with protection of their badges. How can people be safe from this type of law enforcement?? And the American government is allowing this. This world is going to hell fast.

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Since when ,may I ask , is it improper to enforce the laws of this great land? They want to come here and work? Fine, let sheriff joe give them a job on his chain gang. It’s the United States of America, not mexico or any other country dumping their riff raff on our shores or through our deserts.

It’s time we started celebrating UNITY instead of diversity. If something isn’t done to quell the influx of these people, it’s going to get real ugly.

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