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| Mon, 05/12/2008 - 15:21 |
Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa county Arizona, made a name for himself in the 1990s with his tent city prisons in the desert. Inmates there wore pink underwear and were provided with only the bare necessities. Over the last few years, the so-called "toughest sheriff in America" has focused on arresting undocumented immigrants; with law enforcement style that many believe violates basic civil and human rights of the area's large Latino community. As FSRN's Andrew Stelzer reports, racial tension may be on the rise in the Phoenix area, but so is resistance and organization in the community.
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