the fascist pig posing as sheriff from maricopa county in arizona and praised by fascist donald trump praised joe arpaio's racial profiling this is the fascist pig now what joe arpaio did at the very beginning was take advantage of the 287 g provisions of the illegal immigration reform and immigrant responsibility act of 1996 this this permitted local law enforcement agencies to designate officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions but his aggressive efforts especially once sb 1070 passed in arizona just gave him free reign and his aggressive efforts to hunt down and detain undocumented immigrants made him a national symbol of the divisive politics of immigration and it ultimately earned him a criminal contempt conviction of which donald trump will be his savior but let's go and listen to juan gondala gonzalez addressed this fascist's conviction in arizona maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio is facing the possibility of jail time after federal prosecutors announced that they are charging him for criminal contempt of court over his refusal to end unconstitutional immigration patrols in arizona arpaio has long been under fire for his immigration policies which have included racial profiling detaining immigrants in a scorching outdoor tent city jail that arpaio once referred to as his own concentration camp arpaio has also been a key supporter of donald trump appearing at rallies alongside the republican presidential candidate and where he's joked that both he and trump have been key members in the birthers movement which refuses to acknowledge president obama was born in the united states sheriff arpaio now faces up to six months in jail if he's convicted on these contempt of court charges activists are also organizing for him to be voted out of office in november's election we're going now directly to phoenix where we're joined by carlos garcia executive director of puente arizona grassroots human rights movement for migrant justice can you talk about this latest case why sheriff arpaio faces these contempt of court charges criminal contempt of court carlos well to understand the case you must first understand what sheriff arpaio was doing in our communities in 2007 he obtained the 287g agreement and decided to go after our communities in a way that was never seen before what he called crime suppression sweeps he flooded immigrant neighborhoods with his deputized posse members plus his sheriff deputies and would pull over and detain anyone that looked undocumented um resulting in in cases like i remember we would go out there and film and we saw a sheriff uh who had toys in in his trunk knowing that day that he would take uh or maybe be separating a family he he had toys in order to give to children as they were waiting for their parents to be picked up um in those conditions the melendra's ortega uh lawsuit was filed um and and you know several years later was was found guilty of racial profiling and was asked to stop racial profiling and stop stop the practices that the mcso the sheriff's office was uh pertaining to and so what happened is sheriff arpaio being sheriff arpaio ignored the law ignored the judge's order and ordered his officers to continue to racially profile and do what they were doing resulting in this contempt of court where he now faces uh a criminal conviction and his trial is set for december 6th and carlos why has the the sheriff continually despite all of this fury nationwide over his policies and uh and many of the changes that have occurred in the arizona political establishment after uh sb 1070 why he has continued to be re-elected to office turf arpaio's running for the seventh time he's been in office for 24 years um it's unexplainable it's not only our community he's gone after but as you mentioned has tent city has spent millions of millions of taxpayer money we've had over 150 people die in his jails his abuse his racial profiling has been documented in the department of justice who's now in charge of prosecuting this case put out a report in 2009 that it's the worst case of racial profiling abuse they had ever seen and so in in here in maricopa county unfortunately in phoenix we have two communities we have uh a community of of a growing community of migrant peoples um and then a community of retired uh folks who really appreciate what sheriff arpaio is doing and so i think we've come to a place where that's shifting and hopefully in in and in this growing movement and specifically on october 27 22nd we're gonna have people from across the country join us um in this historic election and hopefully finally get rid of sheriff arpaio if the wheels of justice continue to turn as slow as they've been turning it's up to the people here in maricopa county to make sure that sheriff arpaio is gone the case that could land him in jail ortega malendra so that you were talking about who is ortega melendres ortera melendras is a person that was actually here in maricopa county on the tourist visa and while sheriff arpaio was doing these crime suppression patrols they pulled someone over it was actually a citizen driver and and ortega melendez was sitting next to him and that person was asked for their documents booked um and and like ortega malendras there's been thousands of people who've been racially profiled detained unfairly detained and put through this process and and now that a federal court has found arpaio guilty of not only racially profiling but then disobeying the order to stop there was also was there a major corruption uh scandal in arpaio's office that led to the uh the uh dismissal of several of his key deputies what happened with that i mean it's a long history there's been over 3 000 lawsuits that arpaio's been under uh his deputies have turned on him yesterday in court uh uh some of his deputies and also his attorney were also in court who are also facing criminal charges for for following through with this but one thing i do want to note that seeing sheriff arpaio an older man in jail or him being arrested is not the end game for us i think what's been the most harmful is the culture and policies that he's brought not only to arizona but pushed across the country and so for us it's not only arresting arpaio but it's arresting the unjust system that he's brought forth and the fear and trauma he's brought to our community we want to thank you so much carlos garcia for rejoining us executive director of puente arizona a grassroots human rights movement for migrant justice we will certainly follow this case ortega malendra set all versus our pile which could okay so um sheriff joe arpaio is going to be found guilty and of course donald trump will pardon him um yeah