Immigrant rights group is building a case against Arpaio

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Source: 12news

Jan. 23, 2008 05:08 PM

Immigrant rights activist and attorney Antonio Bustamante is building a racial profiling case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Bustamante is collecting first-hand accounts from witnesses who allege they were unfairly stopped, and in some cases, arrested by sheriffs deputies.

Sheriff Arpaio has placed concentrated numbers of deputies in east Phoenix where residents have complained of loiterers, litter and crime. It’s also a neighborhood where day laborers and illegal immigrants are known to congregate.

“We have a lot of evidence but we have to compile it. It has to be analyzed,” says Bustamante. “We firmly believe what the sheriff was doing was going to a portion of the city to question people of brown color and ask about citizenship and immigration.”

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