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Originally Posted by MTI
Joe Arpaio's success, when you look closely, is more based on publicity and self promotion, than actual results or cost effectiveness. Very few outside of AZ ever hear of the in custody deaths, civil lawsuits filed against the Sheriff and his office, the millions in settlements, the number of unserved warrants that the Sheriff is responsible for, the number of frivolous retaliatory investigations and prosecutions he and his supporters have brought against local judges and opposing politicians. Just this year, his chief deputy and deputy chief both resigned while under investigation for misconduct and abuse of office.
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I think an element of his popularity is based on the frustration and rage of Arizonans that see their community OVERWHELMED by the flood of illegals that jumped the fence and come here and do not leave but instead mate and multiply and have large amounts of babies (that are automatically US citizens at birth), refuse utterly, to Speak ENGLISH or assimilate in a meaningful way, and contribute little or nothing to the economy because many if not most (married or not) of them remit the majority of their earnings back home to family Mexico or centro/South America.
Worse, some are a criminal element, who rob, or deal drugs , drive uninsured and drunk and wreck lives and commit other vicious crimes. .
The south side of Tucson is a living monument to the breed.
I know that, as I know Tucson pretty well. East side to Ajo, on the west, north from Santa Catalina to Green Valley in the south,....
If you are anglo, and immersed in it daily, the Sheriff's enforcement would NOT be derided that much, and I think that is how come, despite his abuses, he is popular and remains so. (I think he is in Phoenix/Maricopa County)
I feel there is a justifiable, HUGE groundswell of public rage.
Personally as someone that has been a sponser of ONE single immigrant (from Peru) that navigated successfully the expensive and time consuming LEGAL path through the INS that led her to legal residency and subsequent US citizenship, I feel well qualified to speak to this.
I have NO sympathy for the illegals, nor the people that hire them, at all.
Though I have spoken to several and learned their individual tales of sorrow and financial misery that caused them to jump the fence.
And knowing many latino families, who are here legally, the reason I believe it is a sensitive political football is because in every case, there is one or more relative, somewhere, who has immigration status "issues".
From my marriage to the Pervian, I bonded very well with Uncle Nestor, who was a esteemed Professor of Engineering at a prestigious University in Lima.
I enjoyed him immensely; he took me to dinner at the University Club which was upper class Society at its finest..
But we had wild times together; 8 of us in the family would pile into his old 1983 red VW Brasilian made bug and go to the Clubs and get wasted and dance.
Those Peruvian weekend parties NEVER ended. After the bars closed at 2-3 am, Nestor knew where to go --- to the beach, where poor people had set up informal drinks bars, where at 4-5 in the mornings they would mix and sell you Pisco Sours, as many as you wanted.
Some of the best times I have ever had. Everyone pretty drunk happy, celebrating life and having a good time. Don't know if Nestor was too drunk to drive - it seemed not, and car insurance, most people in Peru did not have any.
But he was not doing well financially...
A few years later, Nestor got a tourist Visa to see some of "our" family in Miami, (gateway to South America btw)
It was for 6 months.
But he overstayed it and never came back to Peru.
He just........POOFED.
We heard a rumour a couple of years later that he was in Texas.
But we don't know.
I have never seen him again, since I was in Peru back then.