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Maricopa towns irate over 'sweeps'

azstarnet.com — GUADALUPE — The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities' mayors and other community leaders.

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  • inboxnews, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Arpaio said the recent sweeps were prompted in part by business owners' complaints about crime among illegal immigrants.
    "It isn't racial profiling," the sheriff said. "We don't arrest just anybody on a street corner."
    He said the 150 people arrested were approached or pulled over in traffic stops because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes. It was only afterward that deputies found nearly half were illegal immigrants, the sheriff said. [from the article]
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