Illegals vent
Now the East Valley Tribune jumps on the anti-Arpaio bandwagon with a video on their site, titled: Mesa Hispanics talk about the effects Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crime sweeps are having on their community.
As Spanish-speaking illegals talk, a soft-voiced female English narrator translates their “fears and concerns.”
“The first thing they tell me is we’re leaving because of Arpaio. Because he doesn’t let us work.”
“I make less money.”
” I don’t have legal documents. If they catch me I’ll be left with nothing. So then what will I do?”
“It causes fear in the community.”
“They don’t go out to amuse themselves, to pass the time. They don‘t do that anymore.”
“We take more precautions. We call each other.”
“We live in fear.”
“People are very intimidated. I have friends who don‘t go out. They don’t leave on weekends.”
“I think it’s racial.”
“I would ask the sheriff, isn’t it more important to catch the people who are trafficking drugs? Those are the ones who murder our children. Those are the ones who commit more serious crimes. That’s something that affects us all–legal and illegal. Why not stop those people–that would be more important, I think.”
“I’ve heard rumors they don’t send their kids to school. They don’t send their kids to school.”
Quite a heart-wrenching saga. Obviously, it is long past time for those here ilegally to go home and put these worries behind them.
April 27, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Absolutely. Things are not going to get easier for illegals. Even if Sheriff Joe was out of the picture and we got saddled with Saban, an open borders panderer if there ever was one, the people will not stop pushing back against illegal immigration, against employers who hire them and undercut wages for Americans and against people who want to come here and simply remake our towns and cities into versions of Mexico.
We don’t want them here and we will continue to fight the good fight to remove them lest we end up like L.A.- a third world nightmare which middle class Americans are fleeing.
April 28, 2008 at 1:08 am
Isn’t the EVT part of a California-based media conglomerate? Should we be at all surprised at this turn of events?
I bet PRAVDA had more comprehensive and more factual news coverage than the Valley has had in the last decade.
April 28, 2008 at 8:20 am
It’s all about a leftward agenda–and that doesn’t include Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whom they dispise.