Well, if you haven't done any crime, we don't go around grabbing people off the street corner because they look like they're from another country. We don't do that.
Joe Arpaio: “Well, if you haven't done any crime, we don't go around grabbing people off the street corner because they look like…”
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio responds to concerns about racial profiling under Arizona's new immigration law.
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I know I'm doing the right thing. I'm not going to surrender by those little small groups of people that don't like what I'm doing. You think I'm going to surrender? Never happen.
I don't know if he read the law. Actually, the U.S. attorney general admitted today he hasn't read the law. So, maybe your councilman should read the law, not overreact.
They should go to jail and do their time if they're convicted, and then we turn them over to ICE.
I have a strange whole philosophy that if someone does something for you, gives you resources, gives you money, I think they want something back, and we ought to do it.