Mesa on edge as it awaits promised Arpaio sweeps
Nick R. Martin, Tribune


With Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s promise to bring his immigration and crime sweeps to Mesa, people are planning for anything to happen.

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Schools are figuring out what to do if families are broken up. Hispanics, no matter their citizenship or immigration status, are avoiding public places. And the police, planning for possible chaos, have squads of officers on standby, ready to quell civil unrest should it break out.

Mesa, it seems, has become a city on edge, its people wondering what will happen next.

“Everyone is mortified - alarmed, really,â€