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 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.
I'm enforcing a new state law, where they're not being turned over to Immigration for a free trip back to Mexico. They're going directly to jail.
Once again, the attorney general of the United States is making comments about Arizona, has never read the law. Why don't people read the law and get the truth?
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.