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    Jane Sanders Visited A Controversial Immigrant Prison In Arizona. She Left Horrified.

    Jane Sanders Visited A Controversial Immigrant Prison
    In Arizona. She Left Horrified.


    by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee Mar 15, 2016 12:43 pm


    Some 200 convicted illegal immigrants settle into a separate area of Tent City after the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America", Maricopa County
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced plans to keep illegal immigrants separate from the rest of the inmate population Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, in Phoenix. Arpaio
    said housing the illegal immigrants separately would save money, although he did not explain how other than to say it's cheaper to house inmates in tents
    than at traditional jails. He also said the move will be more convenient for consulate officials visiting foreign inmates and for Immigration and Customs
    Enforcement agents charged with deporting the inmates after they have served sentences in county jails. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who rose to fame by making use of controversial anti-immigration enforcement efforts, gave Jane Sanders an unexpected tour
    inside his infamous “Tent City” immigrant prison on Sunday. She concluded the conditions are “horrific.”

    Sanders, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, came to Phoenix to meet with families affected by Arpaio’s discriminatory and
    unconstitutional law enforcement practices. Planning to view the conditions through the fence of Tent City — an outdoor extension of the Maricopa County
    jail covered with canvas tents meant to hold more than 2,000 immigrant detainees — Sanders was “surprised” when Arpaio invited her in.

    Arpaio created Tent City more than 20 years as an outdoor jail to deal with overcrowding in his main jail. The heat can rise up into the triple digits during
    the summer months in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving the tent structures to primarily serve as brutal physical punishment. Arpaio once characterized Tent City
    as his own “concentration camp.”

    While visiting the tents, Sanders and Arpaio — who endorsed Trump earlier this year, citing the GOP frontrunner’s tough stance on undocumented immigrants —
    clashed over the conditions at the outdoor jail.



    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff
    Joe Arpaio during a news conference at the Roundhouse Gymnasium, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in
    Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
    CREDIT: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

    Sanders tweeted that Arpaio admitted that “the temperature in the tents were up to 130 degrees in the summer” and that he removes meat from
    all of the prisoners’ meals. Arpaio, meanwhile, insisted that the conditions at Tent City are appropriate. “These are all convicted (inmates). They’re
    all doing their time,” he told Sanders, according to The Arizona Republic.

    But according to the American Civil Liberties Union, Tent City’s population consists of mostly pre-trial inmates who haven’t yet had a chance to
    bring their case before a judge. Some of them have low-level offenses like driving without a license.

    Sanders also questioned the sheriff about his use of racial profiling and his move to deputize civilians to round up undocumented people, though
    she said he declined to answer her. And she expressed her concern about the harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric in the current presidential election.
    “I am concerned as I listen to Donald Trump talking about Mexicans and Latinos and all the negative things he’s saying,” Sanders told Arpaio.

    Arpaio and Trump are a logical match. The sheriff's approach to immigrants echoes Trump's campaign promise to create a "deportation force" that
    will round up undocumented people living in the country. Arpaio has long authorized his deputies to go after suspected undocumented immigrants,
    ensnaring many in deportation proceedings.

    But Arpaio's own deportation force has also left him ensnared in some costly lawsuits. In 2015, Arpaio asked the public to help with his legal fees
    while he waited for a decision on a contempt of court hearing about his department's systemic racial profiling of suspected undocumented immigrants.

    The hearing followed a May 2013 landmark ruling by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow who said that Arpaio’s office broke the law when he profiled
    Latinos during traffic and immigration stops. The ruling called on Arpaio and his officers to implement changes, like improving training and technology
    equipment, to show that the sheriff’s office would no longer systemically single out Latinos. But since then, Arpaio has made insincere efforts to
    address racial biases, including holding court-required community outreach meetings in districts with few Latino residents and declining to show
    up at meetings.

    It will likely cost millions for taxpayers to implement court recommendations to fix Arpaio's acts of racial bias, with Maricopa County already spending
    $1.6 million in legal costs and expenses for Arpaio's court proceedings in 2014.

    http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/03/15/3760249/jane-sanders-visits-arpaio-tent-city/







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    Hispanic lawmaker rips Jane Sanders over Joe Arpaio meeting

    March 16, 2016, 01:33 pm
    By Harper Neidig



    Bernie Sanders's wife, Jane Sanders, is facing heat for an impromptu meeting she had with Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

    Jane Sanders was touring the outside of Arpaio's "tent city" jail in Phoenix with immigration activists when the sheriff came and spoke with her briefly.

    Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), an outspoken advocate of immigrant rights and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, slammed Sanders for the meeting, saying she was not forceful enough with Arpaio.

    "When Jane Sanders visited Joe Arpaio's inhumane detention center, the Sanders campaign had a chance to tell Arpaio to his face that he was wrong and that he needed to resign — as many of us have said for years. Instead, they heard him out, thanked him for his 'hospitality' and, contrary to their claims, made their criticisms through a press release and a series of tweets," Gutiérrez told Bloomberg.

    "Joe Arpaio doesn't deserve a fair hearing. He is wrong on nearly everything: his immigration policies, his indefinite detention and practices that violate human rights, his tearing families apart, his support of the demagogue Donald Trump. All Joe Arpaio wants is the spotlight — and it's a shame the Sanders campaign helped give it to him."

    The Sanders campaign had a different take on the meeting, saying in a statement that she "used the opportunity to question Arpaio about racial profiling and his use of civilians to detain people who are undocumented.
    "She questioned the inhumane treatment of prisoners who have to live outside under temperatures that can reach over 130 degrees, a charge he did not deny, saying they were prisoners. He bragged about removing meat from all their meals and having chain gangs."

    In the statement, Jane Sanders had some harsh criticism for Arpaio.
    “What I saw and heard firsthand today by visiting with the families and seeing tent city was very disturbing,” Sanders said. “Sheriff Arpaio did not even attempt to explain or excuse his inhumane treatment of people of color — not that he could. That kind of attitude toward our fellow human beings is completely unacceptable, especially in elected officials and those who would seek public office.”

    Arpaio has endorsed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...for-joe-arpaio
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