With Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the audience, leading
Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum praised Arizona’s
crackdown on immigration during a debate on Wednesday night. Romney
vowed to drop the Obama administration’s immigration lawsuits against
the state of Arizona on the first day of his presidency. Santorum said
police across the country should be given "the opportunity to do what
they’re doing here in Arizona and what Sheriff Arpaio was doing before
he ran into some issues with the federal government." Santorum’s comment
comes just months after a federal Department of Justice investigation
found "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" in
Arpaio’s office. Arizona journalist Terry Greene Sterling says
"Republican overreach" could lead to an Obama victory in Arizona in
November. "What’s happened in Arizona is that the Arizona legislature
has been taken over by the extreme right wing of the Arizona Republican
Party. And an agenda of extremist bills has been passed and been
proposed," Greene Sterling says. "As a result, Democrats are saying,
'Hey, wait a minute. We think that we can win moderates and independents
into our wing.'"Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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