Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says he won't enforce the state's new controversial immigration law when it goes into effect because he thinks it is "racist." (Courtesy Pima County Sheriff's Department)
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said today that he has “no intention of complying” with the state’s controversial new immigration law, SB-1070, calling it “abominable” and a “national embarrassment.”
Dupnik said that he’d like Gov. Jan Brewer to know that “what she and the legislature has accomplished is morally wrong and a national embarrassment.”
“We’re damned if we do, and damned if we don’t,” said Dupnik. “If we go out and look for illegal immigrants, they accuse us of racial profiling and we can get sued. And if some citizen doesn’t think we’re enforcing the state law, they can sue us too.”
“If the chief of police or sheriff takes a squad out and says to them that their only duty is to go out and round up illegal immigrants, they are going to racially profile,” said Dupnik. “But we have never done that and we will never do that.”
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is part of a growing chorus of law enforcement professionals who believe that the Arizona law will cripple police efforts to secure the cooperation of immigrant communities in fighting crime.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada says that the racism inherent in the law is easy to see: “The way it’s tailored is very clear. You’re looking for brown-skinned individuals…”
And if the Sheriff’s name is familiar to readers of this site, he is the Sheriff who is holding Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde in his lockup, to answer to charges of murdering 9 yo Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, a year ago in Arivaca.
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