LA VOZ DE AZTLAN
Los Angeles, Alta California
January 30, 2009
Sheriff Arpaio is now terrorizing Mexican children! The following is a video of an anti-Mexican suppression sweep by Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona that took place this month. It is very painful to watch. Two of the victims are young children who have been forcibly separated from their mother. The children were abandoned on the street and the mother taken away by a Sheriff Arpaio deputy. This is abominable and a crime.
Immigrant advocates say that Sheriff Arpaio is terrorizing Mexican communities with raids like these, and using police-state tactics to stifle criticism. The man on the video who tries to shut the camera down is a member of Sheriff Arpaio’s “posse.” The "posse" are private citizens recruited by Sheriff Arpaio and are extreme Mexican hating bigots.
The person who shot the video wrote, “Please publish the video on the Internet so that the world can get a better picture of the ‘hell’ we are living here in Arizona .”
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