Arapio has vowed to keep scouring Maricopa County for people whose clothing, accents and behavior betrayed them as likely illegal immigrants. In other words, Sheriff Joe vows to continue racial profiling in a county with a large Hispanic population
The spectacle raises two critical questions that the Obama administration is in danger of getting wrong.
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"I may have to let them back on the streets, but I'm going to get their name, rank and serial number, and I'm going to monitor them," says Arpaio. In other words, harassment without cause or reason other than existing as Hispanics
The controversial agreement that authorized Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies to act as federal immigration agents on the streets appears to have ended, Arpaio said late Friday afternoon.
The sheriff said he signed a new agreement Friday that will allow deputies and detention officers to continue screening every inmate booked into Maricopa County jails to determine their immigration status. But he said federal authorities had not offered an agreement to extend Arpaio’s street-level immigration enforcement.
“This just includes the jail, and deep down, I feel that I ought to take it and rip it all up,” Arpaio said. “On the other hand, I feel it’s very critical to have the jail.”
Federal officials on Friday refused to comment on the agreement.
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Members of the Brazilian immigrant community and others can rest easy with the withdrawal of the Framingham (Ma) PD and Barnstable County from the ICE program known as 287(g) Photo is of one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's terror squads in Maricopa County Arizona
The Framingham police and the Barnstable County sheriff’s department announced Thursday they were withdrawing from the federal program immigrant advocates said deterred immigrants from reporting crimes.
Framingham Chief Steven Carl said he was withdrawing because federal officials pressured the department to broaden its enforcement. He said federal officials wanted his department to detain immigrants, transport them and even testify in immigration court.
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is not interested in pursuing illegal immigrants because of their status, Sheriff Jerry Demings told a crowd of 300 people — most of them immigrants — gathered Monday night for an “immigration dialogue.”
They were part of an event organized by the Federation of Congregations United to Serve, a coalition of church groups in Orlando, at the St. John Vianney Catholic Church in the Oak Ridge neighborhood of southwest Orange.
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Francisca Perez-Mendoza, aka, Alejandra Alvarez, an immigrant woman who was detained in a landscaping company raid by MCSO sheriff's deputies. Her jaw was broken during the arrest. After three months in jail, she still hadn't received proper medical care for her injury. Ibuprofen which she had to buy from the jail commissary for the pain, and Preparation H given her by the jail nurse for swelling in her arm.
Justice Department investigators have met with religious and community leaders to hear testimonies on the anti-immigrant practices of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Complaints of racial profiling in traffic stops, and physical and verbal abuse in the jails have mounted against deputies of the controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio for the last couple of years. But tensions have escalated since Sheriff Arpaio signed an agreement with the federal government in 2007 to enforce immigration laws.
The controversial 287(g) program has been used to train 160 deputies in Maricopa County who conduct immigration sweeps in Latino neighborhoods and markets. Authority under 287(g) must now be renewed and Arpaio has until Oct. 15 to sign up for another term.
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Chief Chris Burbank has been with the Salt Lake City Police Department since 1991
As you begin the experience of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., one of the first images you encounter is a photo of a Nazi soldier standing with a German police officer. Conspicuously, the identical theme exists at Yad VaShem, Israel’s memorial to Holocaust victims.
The Nazi propaganda and hatred effort did not begin with imprisonment and genocide. It was instituted subtly, declaring the criminality of those deemed inferior. Laws were developed and regulations restricting movement, mandating identification and limiting human rights were also passed. Co-opting the trusted local constabulary was instrumental in enforcement of those laws.
Unfortunately, throughout history local law enforcement has been an extremely effective arm of oppression. How many individuals in the United States were lynched, under the color of authority, for violations of Jim Crow laws?
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