Potential Americans, Not Criminal Horde
IT’S ALWAYS NICE, when you’ve been following an issue for a while—the twists and turns of its conception and effect leading a good portion of your news day by the nose—to sniff changes in the wind that you perceive as positive.
IT’S ALWAYS NICE, when you’ve been following an issue for a while—the twists and turns of its conception and effect leading a good portion of your news day by the nose—to sniff changes in the wind that you perceive as positive. That’s how I feel about Sheriff Joe Arpaio lately. The NYTimes may not know how to keep its host country informed about the war machinations of its government (and no, I’ll never let this one go, sorry) but they are puttin’ the hammer down on The Sleazy Sheriff and I hope the White House is paying attention.
All last week the people of Phoenix witnessed public outbursts by their sheriff, Joe Arpaio, as he railed against the Department of Homeland Security for supposedly trying to limit his ability to enforce federal immigration laws. He vowed to keep scouring Maricopa County for people whose clothing, accents and behavior betrayed them as likely illegal immigrants. He said he had already nabbed more than 32,000 people that way, and announced his next immigrant sweep for Oct. 16.
The spectacle raises two critical questions that the Obama administration is in danger of getting wrong.
The article sums up, quite neatly, what is wrong with DHS’ current enforcement-only approach, and the lens in general on the US’s modern day post-traumatic stress disorder as manifested in immigration policy and how it disproportionately affects the Latino comunidad.
Posted in Criminal Justice System, Human Rights, ICE, Immigration
Nezua –
People like Sheriff Arpaio are like the Whack-A-Moles at Chucky Cheese. You knock one of the little boogers back into their hole, and another one pops out, just begging for some blunt force to be applied to its punkin’ head.
Here’s a story from today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about a sheriff who’s heading down the same road as Arpaio; he’s just not as far along yet.
http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/cobb-sheriff-renews-immigration-161793.html
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So you see, it isn’t just the border states who have Neanderthal and racist LEOs. We have them here in Dixie, too.
Saludos!
Tomas el Anglo
oh i feel you. we’ve got to take these little victories where we can! good for the morale. plus, we do need to send a message overall that this won’t be tolerated. but i agree, larger changes and smaller changes both, need to be made.
keep on! oh, and i did read about that cat a few days ago, yeah. thanks for the link bro.