Looks like Nevada’s Teabag Senate Candidate Sharon Angle isn’t the only one running from media questions.
Watch Arizona Governor Jan Brewer burn rubber after getting asked about her staff’s ties to the private prison industry and whether it had anything to do with her signing of SB1070:
There’s not much difference between this:
and this:
What’s the endgame, America?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose jurisdiction includes the Phoenix Metro area (the 5th largest city in the United States), continues to inch closer and closer to neon lines of historical unacceptability. Do undocumented workers need to be shot dead or baked in an oven en masse for public outcry to reach levels that bring Arpaio’s terrorism to a stop in Maricopa County?
Yesterday, Sheriff Joe staged a media orgy with a grin on his face. He welcomed the attention, in fact sought it, with a press release:
ARPAIO ORDERS MOVE OF HUNDREDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO THEIR OWN TENT CITY
Electric Fence to Minimize Escape Risk
(PHOENIX, AZ.) At 1:00 PM tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will order of approximately 200 illegal aliens to be chained and marched into a separate area of Tent City, their new place of incarceration until their sentences are served and the illegal aliens are deported to their home countries.
The move to Tent City frees up much needed space in the Sheriff’s hard facilities serving as a management tool for potential jail overcrowding, Arpaio says.
More importantly, the move is a financially responsible alternative to taxpayers already over burdened by the economic drain imposed by a growing number of illegal aliens on social services like education and healthcare.
The move also facilitates security and transportation issues as well as provides easier and quicker access for foreign government visits to these inmates, the Sheriff says.
The move to Tent City also makes room for the future. Now that the Arizona state government has given Arpaio back his $1.6 million dollars slated for fighting illegal immigration, more arrests by the Sheriff’s human smuggling unit and crime suppression operations are anticipated.
The time has come to wipe the smile of the face of this racist and inhumane goon for good. Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox gives us a call to action:
Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox has vowed to seek a federal investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s decision to segregate illegal immigrants in his Tent City Jail.
“It’s a brand new Washington, and we’re going to have to use the Justice Department to look into this abuse,” Wilcox said after Arpaio moved about 200 convicted illegal immigrants from the Durango Jail to a fenced area at Tent City Wednesday afternoon.
“You don’t have to make us the laughing stock of the United States by doing stunts like this, and you don’t have to abuse people. And that’s what everybody is feeling,” Wilcox said in the latest of several clashes between her and the sheriff.
Arpaio was not fazed.
“I would highly recommend that she volunteer to spend some time in the tents before she starts yapping away,” he said. “How about spending a couple of nights in the tents like I did? I slept in the tents with all these inmates.”
It’s time to light up the switchboards in Washington, D.C., demanding Arpaio’s leash be yanked so actions like this will not be repeated. Here is a preliminary listing of numbers to call:
America’s Voice also has a petition on its Arpaio page, calling for an investigation of human rights abuses to be conducted by the Department of Justice.
Enough is Enough. ¡Ya Basta!
Wow. Just wow.
A Texas County Commissioner says out loud that the concentration camp in Taylor is a way better deal for migrant families than their homes back in Latin America (still think it’s not racial?)
Hat tip to the myspace activists who are working tirelessly on the local level to shut down the prison. They are holding twin marches next weekend:
The Hutto child prison in Taylor and the Raymondville tent internment camps are the most visible yet sinister violation of international human rights on American soil…and they both happen to be here in Texas . Hutto has children and their mothers imprisoned at the tune of about $10,000 per child/per mother/per month. Raymondville is the most flagrant of adult immigrant internment camps in the world, let alone on American soil.
Therefore, Raymondville Walk II and Hutto Walk III have been rescheduled for a Texas Super Weekend the last weekend of October. Here are the dates: (Maps and details will be in a follow up notice).
Raymondville Walk II. October 26-27. Friday and Saturday. From the Harlingen Travel Center to Raymondville, the seat of the corruption ridden Willacy County Commissioners Court .
Hutto Walk III. October 28-30. Sunday through Tuesday. From the Hutto children’s’ prison camp in Taylor , Texas to the seat of the Williamson County Commissioners Court in Georgetown , Texas .
Good news – Virginia has decided not to construct a stand-alone detention center for undocumented migrants. While they are looking for other ways to implement a 2007 version of Operation Wetback, I thought this was an important thing to highlight in the article.
Asked why he [State Senator Ken Stolle] had abandoned his idea of creating a centralized facility, Mr. Stolle said that countless people had told him the idea sounded too much like “a concentration camp” for immigrants.
Not to toot the horns of pro-migrant blogs too hard, but we have been unapologetic about calling facilities like the proposed one in Virginia and the T. Don Hutto prison in Taylor, TX by their rightful names: concentration camps. It causes an immediate, visceral reaction because imagery of torture and other horrific actions are summoned to the conscience. I’m looking for the link, but I had an argument once with someone online who took exception to my “casual” usage of such a term.
Luckily, I had an online dictionary at my fingertips.
- Main Entry: concentration camp
- Function: noun
- Date: 1901
: a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined
Through the perseverant efforts of community members and activists all across the commonwealth and world, we were able to flip some type of switch in the head of Virginia lawmakers this week to stop their inhumane actions by constructing a modern-day concentration camp. We must keep up the fight for justice and human rights that will finally bring millions of people out of the shadows and into full communion with U.S. civil society.
All due to the conquistador mentality rearing its ugly head after a car accident.
A panel studying illegal immigration in Virginia wants to build a 1,000-bed state jail solely for people arrested for being in the United States illegally. The Illegal Immigration Task Force agreed to 11 recommendations Monday in an effort to tighten enforcement of immigration laws. The new jail was one of them.
Since the current detention program in the U.S. for undocumented migrants has been so successful, it’s no wonder that locales are interested in expanding its scope. Perhaps the shiny barbed-wire and polished concrete will make a suitable environment for the children.
LatinoPolítico.com 