I've heard a lot of bad things about Sheriff Joe Arpaio over the years. He has done a lot of harm in Maricopa County, Arizona.
The Right's Working group is heading up this campaign to remove cancel Arpaio's contract.
As a part of Rights Working Group's National Week of Action to Hold DHS Accountable, Call on Secretary Napolitano to immediately terminate Sheriff Arpaio's 287(g) contract.In recent months, the hard work of many has raised the profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the most infamous Sheriff since Bull Connor, as the ugliest face of the failed national 287(g) program. The Sheriff's march of migrant inmates in a chain gang the New York Times described as"ritual humiliation" revealed the racial profiling and terror he's carried out on Maricopa County, and made urgent the need for federal intervention.
Arpaio deputizes vigilante posses to set up check points, dispatches uniformed officers to roam the streets in ski masks, chases janitors with attack dogs and assault weapons, and directs his law enforcement resources at the request of known white supremacists.
40,000 people recently signed petitions condemning his actions. 5,000 people marched peacefully in Phoenix on February 28 demanding federal intervention. And on April 2, the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the racial profiling inherent in the 287(g) program.
Take action here and send Secretary Napolitano an email urging her to cancel Arpaio's contract.
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The "justice" system in Maricopa Co. is a joke. Not only is Arpaio the problem, but also his good buddy Attorney General Andrew Thomas.
Here's a good example of what goes on here:
http://tinyurl.com/czeqa5
How do these people keep getting elected?!
So where is the harm?
All you have done here is parrot a press release from a highly biased organization. Please give us some actual facts.
The harm is that this program is being used to justify midnight raids on libraries, ICE holds for broken tail-lights and illegal corn-vending, and immigration sweeps that leave minority communities unwilling to call the police to report crimes.
And while the majority of the MCSO resources are being used to target anyone who looks Latino/a, 40,000 felony warrants have gone unserved in Maricopa County.