Thread: Sheriff Joe Arpaio setting up separate Tent City for illegal

Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 3:43pm MST
Sheriff Joe Arpaio setting up separate Tent City for illegalsPhoenix Business Journal
This Comments (2)Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Tuesday he is creating a new Tent City jail for illegal immigrants and would segregate those detainees behind an electrified fence.

Arpaio said his office will put 200 illegal immigrants in chains Wednesday and march them from existing jail facilities into the segregated tent area at the county jail near 35th Avenue and Durango Road.

Arpaio has been aggressive in his enforcement of immigration violations and said the new Tent City would free up space in existing jails and help the county save money on the cost of housing illegals until they are deported or sentenced for other crimes.http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stor ... ily31.html

Arpaio moving Illegal immigrants to Tent City
by JJ Hensley and Yvonne Wingett - Feb. 3, 2009 06:44 PM
The Arizona Republic
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department plans to move hundreds of illegal immigrants to a segregated area of the Tent City complex to serve the rest of their sentences, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Tuesday afternoon.

Arpaio called the plan a money-saving measure, but sheriff's officials could not offer details about how it would cut costs other than to say it's cheaper to house inmates in tents than in traditional facilities.

The measure calls for about 200 inmates to move from Maricopa County's Durango Jail to Tent City on Wednesday afternoon. Both facilities are in the same complex near 35th Avenue and Durango Street.
Arpaio's decision caught some officials off-guard, much like his decision last week to use Metro light rail to transport extradited inmates to-and-from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

At least two of the five County Supervisors, who approve Arpaio's budget, had not been told by the Sheriff's Office of the plan.

"That's one of the most inhumane things I've ever heard," said Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, who has consistently voiced concern over Arpaio's illegal immigration related policies. "He's trying to justify this as a 'budget savings,' and I'm just appalled. It's just another publicity stunt, and he doesn't outline how he'll save costs.

"I don't think you can segregate people that way, and we're going to get all kinds of violations against us. The bad thing is, we should be able to talk to an attorney to advise us of who we should turn to."

Board Chairman Max Wilson heard about Arpaio's plan from the press: "I can only say that if we can do something that would save dollars, I'm for that, but it depends on if you're jeopardizing public safety, and that's what his responsibilities are."

Arpaio said the inmates moving to Tent City would, aside from their residency status, be just like the other convicts who reside in the infamous facility that opened in 1993: they would be sentenced for their crimes and have a criminal history without serious, violent offenses.

He touted the move as a way to increase convenience for consulate officials visiting foreign inmates and for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents charged with deporting the inmates after they've served sentences in county jails.

"They're serving times for all different types of crimes, they just happen to be illegal," Arpaio said. "They won't be released on the street after they've completed it. They'll be deported."

An ICE spokesman declined to comment on Arpaio's decision.

It's the second time in a week Arpaio's office has unveiled a contentious plan tied to the state's budget crisis.

Early last week, Arpaio announced plans to transport inmates between the airport and Fourth Avenue Jail using Metro light rail with an estimated savings of $72,000. The plan was scrapped two days later, following an outcry from light rail and city officials, when sheriff's officials announced that Phoenix had provided the Sheriff's Office with additional airport parking passes.

So far, Arpaio's programs haven't made much of a dent in the county's budget.

Sandi Wilson, he acting county manager, oversees the government's $2.3 billion budget - already $25.5 million in the hole and worsening every day.

The Sheriff's Office still has not submitted a detailed budget cutting proposal, she said, two months after the county's office of management and budget requested all departments to identify 20 percent of each department's budgets that could be cut.

"If he's coming up with budget savings, he ought to offer it up," Wilson said. "At this point, he hasn't. And this doesn't make any sense to me."

Arpaio plans to escort the inmates from Durango to Tent City during a media event scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.


Reporter Tyler Lockman contributed to this story.
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They need one right on the border.

They need to start picking up all the trash they leave while crossing the border, that will give them a job, and a nice place to live.

If a tent city is good enough for citizens who commit crimes it's good enough for illegals.

Aarg , Lib . Symps Drive Me Nuts .
If They had their way Illegals would be Housed at rhe Marriot at Our Cost ..
And Americans Would be Deported .

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sheriff Joe to March Immigrant Detainees to Tent City in Chains
posted by Duke1676
Tomorrow afternoon, Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to parade 220 chained immigrant detainees, carrying their own bedding, through the streets of Phoenix from the county jail to their new home in a newly expanded area in Arpaio's infamous "Tent City"

Having expanded his tent facility to house 2500 of the 10,000 inmates currently incarcerated in the county jail with a newly authorized $1.6 million dollar grant from the state, Arpaio vows to fill it with immigrant detainees.

Surrounded by an electrified fence that Joe jokes will be one that immigrants "won't want to scale," the tent facility will eventually become the new home for those caught in Arpaio's racial profiling roundups.

As usual, Arpaio has invited the press to document the hour long march in order fuel his colossal ego and need for constant media attention.




PRESS RELEASE

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
Deputy Lindsey Smith
Media Relations – M.C.S.O.
Spokeswoman
Office: 602-876-1802
L_Smith@MCSO.Maricopa.Gov



ARPAIO ORDERS MOVE OF HUNDREDS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO THEIR OWN TENT CITY

Electric Fence to Minimize Escape Risk

(PHOENIX, AZ.) At 1:00 PM tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will order of approximately 200 illegal aliens to be chained and marched into a separate area of Tent City, their new place of incarceration until their sentences are served and the illegal aliens are deported to their home countries.

The move to Tent City frees up much needed space in the Sheriff's hard facilities serving as a management tool for potential jail overcrowding, Arpaio says.

More importantly, the move is a financially responsible alternative to taxpayers already over burdened by the economic drain imposed by a growing number of illegal aliens on social services like education and healthcare.

The move also facilitates security and transportation issues as well as provides easier and quicker access for foreign government visits to these inmates, the Sheriff says. The move to Tent City also makes room for the future. Now that the Arizona state government has given Arpaio back his $1.6 million dollars slated for fighting illegal immigration, more arrests by the Sheriff's human smuggling unit and crime suppression operations are anticipated.

"We have expanded the tents to be able to house as many as 2500 inmates out of the 10,000 currently incarcerated in the jails," Arpaio says. "As we planned the expansion, I decided to have a special area to house this particular population of inmate more effectively and safely. Starting tomorrow, Tent City will be their new address," Arpaio says.

Tent City is Arpaio's canvas incarceration compound which he opened in August of 1993. Since then, it has been a safe and cost effective way of housing inmates and has gained worldwide attention as a model jail program. The consolidation of a large number of illegal aliens into Tent City, Arpaio says, should pose no substantial security problems as the area where they will be housed is protected by an electric fence.

"This is a population of criminals more adept perhaps at escape," the Sheriff says. "But this is a fence they won't want to scale because they risk receiving quite a shock - literally."

Tomorrow's move is expected to take about an hour as the illegal aliens make their way from the Durango Jail complex to Tent City on Gibson Road. Traffic will be rerouted during the transfer, Arpaio says.

The inmates will enter Tent City through the west gate and pick up their bedding before making their way to their section of the tents.

They will be treated like all other inmates incarcerated here with two exceptions. Arpaio wants them to be instructed in American immigration laws, as a way to help them understand that the violation of these laws has serious consequences not only to them but to society as a whole. And anyone found to violate jail rules, may end up on a chain gang. This chain gang will work to clean the areas of the valley, which have been impacted by human trafficking trade.

The inmate march begins at 1:00 PM on Wednesday beginning at the entrance gate of Durango Jail on Gibson Street. The 220 inmates will march east to Tent City. Interested media are asked to park on the access road west of Estrella Jail at 2939 West Durango. SEE MAP ATTACHED. Sheriff Arpaio will answer questions at 1:30 PM from inside Tent City. Call the on call Media Relations person for more information.


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He should be the Sheriff of the entire country.

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ACORN Protests Arizona Sheriff's Decision to Segregate Illegals From Gen Pop
ACORN is protesting a decision made by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to keep illegal immigrants separate from the rest of the inmate population at tents in Phoenix, Arizona.

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, February 04, 2009


powered by BaynoteThe community organization group ACORN is protesting a decision made by the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" to keep illegal immigrants at tents that house prisoners, separate from the rest of the inmate population.

ACORN has lambasted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's action, calling it a "blatant disregard for civil rights."

Arpaio announced Wednesday that he plans to accompany about 200 inmates -- along with members of the media -- from a Phoenix area jail to Tent City on Wednesday afternoon.

He says the move will save money, although he hasn't explained how other than to say it's cheaper to house inmates in tents than in traditional jails.

"Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sherriff's Department have routinely violated the civil rights of members of communities through racial profiling, retaliatory arrests aimed at silencing critics and the separation of families, while simultaneously neglecting our public safety needs," ACORN said in a statement released Wednesday.

Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox agrees with ACORN, saying she thinks Arpaio could potentially be violating the immigrants' rights by keeping them separated. She said she'd like to talk to the Justice Department and have staff there issue an opinion.

Wilcox -- a frequent critic of Apraio's immigration policies -- called the move a publicity stunt.


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