• SB1070 “Assault on our communities.” Immigration status of someone they suspect of being an undocumented individual. If undocumented you will be charged with trespassing.
• “All 50 percent migrant crossings come through AZ. In 1994 we began with the prevention and deterrence with military type operations such as operation gate keeper in CA operation blockade later known as hold the line in El Paso area, AZ Operation safe guard which has resulted in the deaths thousands of migrants in AZ.”
• “What happens at the border goes to the interior of US does not stay at the border.”
• 287g federal program that has two models one is the field model that “Arpaio became the poster child for” and then the jail model. Allows for ICE to train local police and to use local jails to screen and detain apprehended immigrants.
We demand:
“Massive may day, not just demand immigration reform we want immigration reform, we demand that the enforcement stop, that we stop resourcing billing dollar structure that is going on at the border, second demand that we immediately admit the root cause that if we are interested in immigration, a reform that reflects that reality, that we legalize the 12 million people begin to address issues around the border that has caused so much environmental degradation. Our demands are huge.”
Video
(YouTube video) AC360 “Joe Arpaio and Isabel Garcia duke it out”
Articles
(pdf) How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history
Las Mujeres de Manzo 