pic from Joe's old re-election site JoeArpaio.orgBishop Olmsted and Arpaio get chummy in the tents...Chicago's Cardinal Francis George could school Phoenix's Bishop Thomas Olmsted on moral courage when it comes to the subject of immigration. While Olmsted refuses to condemn attacks on immigrants in his flock by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ICE, and other law enforcement entities, Cardinal George had the gonads recently to demand that the Obama administration cease federal immigration raids, and come up w
"Watch out, Arpaio's coming..."As I reported in last week's Bird column, Guadalupe's lickspittle Mayor Frankie Montiel has invited Sheriff Joe back to his square-mile town for Thursday's town council meeting, and perhaps a meal of Mexican seafood. Arpaio's return comes one year after the MCSO ran roughshod over that town in an anti-immigrant sweep, pulling over everyone brown (which is the whole burg), harassing law-abiding citizens, even menacing a Catholic confirmation for the town's ch
Arpaio fields a question from the Guadalupe town council. I was close enough to smell his Old Spice...
Just how many deputies does it take to protect Sheriff Joe Arpaio? 50? 100? 200? Yes, Arpaio did return to Guadalupe to address the town council Thursday night, almost a year after terrorizing Guadalupe with an immigration sweep on April 3 and 4 of 2008. But in doing so, he had to be protected with an overwhelming show of force that turned the town into a police state for the da
Rev. Sharpton at Pilgrim Rest, early Friday morning
Today the Reverend Al Sharpton achieved what no one else has achieved before in Arizona's civil rights struggle for the undocumented: the bringing together of African Americans and Latinos on the issues of racial profiling, immigration reform and the 287(g) program.
After meeting with those who've suffered racial profiling at the hands of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies, Sharpton addressed a crowd of several hundred at Pilgrim Rest Bap
