Gordon slams Arpaio illegal immigration patrols
Paul Giblin

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon angrily condemned Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday for dispatching 200 deputies and posse members into the streets for a second night of high-profile saturation patrols with the intent to arrest illegal immigrants.

Gordon told 1,500 people at a luncheon honoring labor activist Cesar Chavez that Arpaio’s tactics in the nation’s fifth-largest city clearly show that the struggle against discrimination and injustice continues.

“The posse didn’t lock up murderers - they locked up brown people with broken taillights,â€