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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights activist Al Sharpton weighed into a fight over an Arizona sheriff's immigration sweeps on Tuesday, accusing him of racially profiling Hispanics and urging him to step down.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has dispatched deputies into Hispanic communities in the Phoenix area, where they stop people and arrest anyone who cannot prove he or she is a legal U.S. resident.
Under a deal allowing them to enforce federal immigration laws, the deputies have arrested more than 1,500 people who they determined were in Arizona illegally, triggering street protests and condemnation from Latino activists who accuse him of racial profiling.
"I am first calling for the resignation and or removal of Sheriff Arpaio ... harassment based on color is nothing short of racial profiling, which many of us ... helped to fight to make against the law," Sharpton told reporters.
U.S. Department of Justice officials recently launched an inquiry into Arpaio's activities. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee also held hearings last week about the federal program that allows for such enforcement tactics.
"Arpaio needs to be confronted, he needs to be removed. ... We also need to suspend the law that he is using. We must stand with our brown brothers and sisters," Sharpton said.
Sharpton said he would travel to Arizona to make his case.
Arpaio, who has held the job since 1992, called charges he carries out racial profiling of Hispanics ridiculous.
"I'm never going to resign," he said. "The guy is living in a fantasy land if he thinks he is going to pressure me into anything. He doesn't even know where Arizona is."
Let me guess..he should be asking blue eyed, blonde people if they're Mexican right...the left is so nuts.
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No wonder why most liberal blacks are still barely above poverty and levels seen after slavery ended.
This fool does not understand that illegal immigration is a stake in the economic heart of black americans potential for progress.
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America calls for Al Sharpton to stick his head in an oven.
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This is the same man who was legitimized by the Democrat party. Shame on them.
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Sharpton should not be given a media outlet anymore. This guy is a disgrace.
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Racial profiling...
Wow....
So it's now wrong to assume an illegal from mexico is hispanic?
wtf.....
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You should be happy Al is doing this stuff... Whenever he opens his mouth, the public goes with the opposite stance.
Al has been completely demonized by the general population and rightfully so.
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You should be happy Al is doing this stuff... Whenever he opens his mouth, the public goes with the opposite stance.
Al has been completely demonized by the general population and rightfully so.
yep. Even blacks know he is a scam but they go along anyway because his escapades are usually against whitey.