[PAA-Discuss] Stopping Arpaio: One step forward

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_Sheriff  Joe Arpaio

DHS  curtailed Arpaio's 287g agreement last week.  

Tell DHS to end all 287g agreements  nationally.  Click here.

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Dear  Juli,
Some of our most  important battles happen far outside the view of national 
media --  and despite the attacks, we will never stop helping the people 
who  need it most. Last week, we and the immigrant rights community  have won 
a hard-fought partial victory. Sheriff Joe Arpaio will no  longer be allowed 
to arrest anybody on the street he suspects of  being an illegal immigrant.

You know all  about the Barbaric Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. 
Sheriff  Arpaio has perpetrated some of the worst abuses of immigrants (and  
everyone whose skin color made them suspect) I've ever seen, like  marching them 
in chains through the streets to an outdoor tent  city with an electric 
fence, separating families, raiding  workplaces, and engaging in racial 
profiling. 

The Department of  Homeland Security has helped facilitate these abuses 
through its  287g program, which lets local law enforcement agencies enforce  
federal immigration laws.

But you and  others like you have not stood by and let this go 
unchallenged.  You have demanded the DHS suspend its entire 287g program because  of the 
racial profiling and human rights abuses inherent in its  implementation. 

Your efforts have  resulted in a welcome step forward from DHS. The 
controversial  agreement that authorized Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies to act as  
federal immigration agents on the streets of Maricopa Count ran  out Friday 
afternoon. 

_DHS took a first  step in Arizona. Now it has to finish the job and then 
do the  right thing across the country and suspend all 287g agreements.  
Please join us in asking the DHS take the next step and suspend  all 287g 
agreements. _ 
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This is exactly what  ACORN is all about. When ACORN members and supporters 
stand up and  join with other like-minded people and organizations, we make 
 change. But this is only a first step in Maricopa County. We  need to 
protect ALL people in every county from the very real  dangers of 287g.

_Please tell DHS  to suspend all 287g agreements  nationally._ 
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