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Maricopa County is now safe from six illegal immigrants who were allegedly using stolen identities to work at a Mexican restaurant in Chandler.
That’s right, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducted its latest illegal immigrant roundup at Moreno’s Mexican grill in Chandler this morning. It netted a total of six arrests.
The MCSO says it received information that 14 illegal immigrants were using fake IDs in order to work at the restaurant. Only six were arrested today — which is a vast improvement from the last time the sheriff went gangbusters on a Valley business in search of illegal immigrants.
Last week, Arpaio’s boys in beige raided a Days Inn hotel in downtown Phoenix. The result: one arrest.
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Per usual, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is trying to church-up the immigrant roundup, calling the raid an “employer sanctions operation.” Also per usual, no employers were arrested — just employees.
When asked if any employers were arrested, MCSO Officer Chris Hegstrom tells New Times “at this time, I can tell you we arrested six employees for using false identification.”
Again, precisely zero employers were arrested during the sheriff’s “employer sanctions operation” this morning — but that’s because the raid had nothing to do with sanctions for people who hire illegal immigrants; it was just your run-of-the-mill MCSO immigrant roundup under the guise of an “employer sanctions operation.”
