Brown-skinned people in Maricopa County are confronted today by deputies in ski masks, guns drawn. Below, in feature stories, columns, and individual Web profiles, we introduce the people caught up in this madness.

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  1. Feature
    Return to Sender: The Feds, fueled by local anti-immigration hostility, are draining talented undocumented youth into Mexico.
    Published: January 13, 2010
  2. Column
    The Nooses Must Be Cut Down: Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk provided the blade, now it's up to AG Goddard and President Obama to use it.
    Published: December 31, 2009
  3. Web Profile
    The American Artist: A naturalized citizen, painter, and valley legal-system translator, Ramon Delgadillo was refused entry to Arpaio's jail because he didn't carry proof of citizenship.
    Published: December 16, 2009
  4. Web Profile
    Tuned In: the MCSO pointed guns at siblings, both U.S. citizens, after a deputy’s attention was drawn to them by Spanish-language music blaring from their car.
    Published: December 09, 2009
  5. Feature
    The Pink Negro: As an Ivy League lawyer, is President Barack Obama hard enough to confront the evil personified by Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
    Published: December 09, 2009
  6. Web Profile
    He Never Flinched: A U.S. citizen was detained by the MCSO and then testified before congress about his being racially profiled.
    Published: December 02, 2009
  7. Web Profile
    No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. citizen says he was detained without probable cause by the MCSO, and then jailed for traffic violations.
    Published: November 18, 2009
  8. Web Profile
    Rules Be Damned: A legal resident presented valid documentation to the MCSO but was jailed for 12 days anyway.
    Published: November 11, 2009
  9. Web Profile
    Bloody Encounter: A U.S. citizen says he hit the pavement face-first after MCSO deputies racially profiled him and jerked him from his truck.
    Published: November 04, 2009
  10. Column
    Fighting Sanchez: Guadalupe activists hassled by the MCSO.
    Published: November 04, 2009
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If Jason Todd Ready had been a run-of-the-mill, delusional, Holocaust-denying racist neo-Nazi who liked to play with guns, I suppose we could could spare an ounce of surprise that, according… More >>

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Nine years ago, New Times exposed a massive and macabre insurance-fraud scam involving medically unnecessary surgeries and grossly overpriced procedures. Now, four key players in the monumental scheme are about to… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Bilingualism and Catholic Culture
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I'm getting sick and tired of all these dirty, stupid Mexicans running around. The first part is easy: As Mr. Dix says in David Copperfield, when asked what to do… More >>

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