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[Breaking News] Arizona House rejects immigration enforcement bill

News & Views on July 1st, 2009 Comments Off

PHOENIX — With many members absent, the Arizona House early Wednesday defeated a bill to criminalize the presence of all illegal immigrants in the state and draw local police officers deeper into the fight against illegal immigration.
The House voted 26-15 for the bill Wednesday morning, but the “yes” votes were five short of the 31 [...]

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Thousand march in Phoenix in opposition to Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Featured on February 28th, 2009 Comments Off

This is incredible!
Thousands of opponents of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal-immigration policies held their “March to Stop the Hate” in downtown Phoenix on this morning.
As of 1:30 p.m., the speeches were still being made at the march’s destination, the federal building. According to initial reports, the march was peaceful, with no major incidents as of [...]

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Arpaio allows inmate serving life sentence to escape while deputies used elsewhere harassing valley Latinos

Featured on February 20th, 2009 Comments Off

The incompetence of Sheriff Joe Arpaio was again evident in Maricopa County on Tuesday with the brazen escape of inmate Adrian Gonzalez Cruz, who was serving a life sentence for child rape.
Inmates have escaped Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office custody a handful of times in the past five years, and they were frequently captured within days [...]

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Media Circus in Arizona as Media Whore Arpaio forces public march in chains

Featured on February 5th, 2009 1 Comment

That worthless bastard and hero of the rabid right wing loons Joe Arpaio is at it again.
Chaining together prisoners and marching them through the streets of Phoenix.
Dan Weiss relates it at Imagine 2050
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, AZ will chain together hundreds of detained immigrants today and force them to march out of a detention [...]

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