Flushing Them Out
Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how to terrorize illegal immigrants
By Megan Irwin
Published: December 27, 2007, Phoenix New TimesDaniela's world is very small. Though she was born in Mexico and traveled thousands of miles to Phoenix, she might never leave her neighborhood again. As an undocumented immigrant in Maricopa County, it's just too risky.
Her eldest child longs for the family to take a trip to California and see the ocean, but Daniela, the mother of four American citizens and one undocumented child, ages 5 to 13, doesn't travel farther than three blocks from her home. She's terrified.
Her husband, a welder, leaves for work before dawn. She never knows if he'll come home.
Daniela has very few friends — there's no one she can trust not to report her, especially now that the county sheriff has an illegal immigration hotline.
She can't leave her house to buy groceries; she's heard that the sheriff stations deputies at Food City.
Daniela lives down the street from a drug dealer, not a safe environment for a young family. She knows the guy's name, his address and she's seen him do business. But she can't call the police — they might take her away.
She's learned how to walk quietly, to stay in the shadows. The only place Daniela allows herself to go is her children's elementary school. She volunteers there six hours a day. She says it's her responsibility to be active in her children's education. But when she walks to school (she won't drive, ever) she makes sure to go with one of her few friend or her kids.
1 comments:
It seems that many states are attempting to do the same thing...as stated in this article. It is illegal for the local people force to question anyone on their immigration status, but they do, to strike fear in the LATIN community.
IF the USA, ie, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT does not stop the local police forces in our communities from acting in such a manner, then what will end up happening in the long run is that the "these people" ie, the BROWN SKINNED people like us will end up immigrating to another country, NOT THE U.S.A., but lets say for example the country next door, NORTH OF HERE, CANADA...
Hmmm, then that would make the people left here, ie all the white people have to perform the jobs that were previously held by the minorities, and that would be FARMWORK, JANITORIAL, HOUSEKEEPING, and numerous other types of jobs that are back breaking labor intensive work, oh and lets not forget that at times the PAY is not A LIVING WAGE, needing to perform the job 10 or more hours per day.
Just think about!!
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