Fuhgeddaboudit!
May 20th 2006RavenArizona & Border Security & Raven
Another person I want to meet.
PHOENIX – Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks he has found the answer to the problem of illegal immigrants in the United States. It’s not the National Guard. And it’s not amnesty. “Fuhgeddaboudit!” growled Arpaio, his Boston accent unbleached by the desert sun. The sheriff’s solution: Lock ‘em up.
Boston accent? What’s that??
More people sneak into Arizona from Mexico than any other state in the nation. More people die in its deserts. More people commit crimes along its border. And among many Arizonans, Arpaio’s brand of frontier justice provides a quick fix and a clear counterpoint to a federal enforcement campaign that, since 1993, has failed, despite a tripling of Border Patrol agents, to decrease illegal entries along the Mexican border.
So why aren’t they doing this all along the border? It’s working.
“If you get caught by immigration, you get a free ride back to Mexico in an air-conditioned bus,” Arpaio said. “A free ride? Not in my county. I’m going to put them on chain gangs, in tents and feed them bologna sandwiches.”
That’s being TOO nice. Bologna sammiches? BULLONEY.
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