Anti-Joe Arpaio Action Scheduled for This February 28 in Phoenix

[thundley4]

Looks like February will be going out like a lion, with a massive anti-Joe protest scheduled for the 28th demanding the termination of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g) agreement. Some 70 activist groups will march by the Arizona ICE office, the Wells Fargo Tower, where the MCSO has its executive offices, and the Phoenix Federal Building, according to local human rights activist Sal Reza.

I'll be there to observe as a sympathetic party. But to tell you the truth, I wish they could pull off a similar march in D.C., where someone outside of Sand Land might pay attention. The political reality of Cactus Country is this: Without intervention from the Obama administration, we are royally screwed.

Will the organizers draw the numbers needed to garner coverage from outside press? That will be the major challenge for this effort. Also, I would suggest that something more than a walkathon would help draw the media spotlight. A thousand person sit-in on the capitol lawn, for instance. Something that my jaded colleagues in the Fourth Estate, especially those beyond AZ, cannot ignore. In any case, the press release from Somos America is below. Stay tuned for more info.

PHOENIX, AZ - Organizations from around the country are joining together to call for an end to the immigration raids of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and specifically to revoke his controversial contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
PHOENIX, AZ - Organizations from around the country are joining together to call for an end to the immigration raids of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and specifically to revoke his controversial contract with the Department of Homeland Security.

On Friday February 6th, more than 70 immigrant, labor, and civil rights organizations from throughout the country convened an emergency conference call to reflect upon the Sheriff's most recent media spectacle, the forced march of immigrants to a segregated area in his notorious "Tent City" in the desert. Organizations universally condemned the action and pledged to assist the people of Maricopa County to overcome Sheriff Arpaio's reign of terror.

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I hope Sheriff Joe raids their little protest and arrests a bunch of illegals. 

[Airwolf]

I'm betting that Joe and his deputies haven';t had riot training in a long time. Might be a good time to hold a practice or two.

[rich_t]

Joe for President!!!

[Chris_]

It's good to see that Sheriff Joe is pissing off all the right people.

 

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Joe for President!!!

RIGHT ON!

Just imagine if he did run and won. 

[rich_t]

RIGHT ON!

Just imagine if he did run and won. 

I think the border fence would be completed in about a month.

[thundley4]

I think the border fence would be completed in about a month.

Think about the savings in the federal prisons if they followed his lead and then there'd be the lowered recidivism rate, that ex-cons from his jail has also.

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

I think the border fence would be completed in about a month.

If Joe were president, he would use the illegals to build the fence while providing them sufficient MREs to eat and Vietnam era hardback tents for their housing.

Once the fence was finished he would bus them south of the fence and send them on their merry way.

The silver lining behind the current economic situation in this country - illegals are VOLUNTARILY leaving because they aren't able to find work because Americans are actually doing jobs many pro-illegals claimed Americans wouldn't lower themselves to do.

U.S. landowners whos property abbuts the border with mexico should have a free hand to shoot any illegals they find trespassing on their property.  The more landowners who do that, the better because the message will get across south the border to avoid certain border crossing points.