GOP Candidate for AZ-GOV Wants 'Tent Cities' For Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Other Crimes

[marmar]

from TPM Muckraker:



GOP Candidate for AZ-GOV Wants 'Tent Cities' For Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Other Crimes
Jillian Rayfield | June 10, 2010, 3:57PM


Dean Martin, Arizona state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor, is pushing a plan that would create "tent cities" to house illegal immigrants convicted of other crimes, modeled after notorious anti-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio's set-up in his own Maricopa County.

In an interview with TPM, Martin described how the state could use the tent cities to provide "inexpensive temporary housing" that would save them enough money to deploy more troops down to the border.

According to a statement by Martin, he and Arpaio met earlier this week, and Arpaio endorsed Martin's "Zero Tolerance" plan because it "offers real solutions." Martin told TPM that Arpaio also said he would take on any illegal immigrants arrested in his own Maricopa County for other crimes.

In the plan (.pdf), Martin describes how the state of Arizona could save millions by temporarily housing "criminal aliens" in either private prisons or in "tent cities."

Though in his proposal Martin says Arizona "can no longer afford the luxury of comfy new prisons when our state is in the red," he assured TPM that with the tent cities, "we're not talking about a Shantytown here." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/arpaio_backs_az_state_treasurers_plan_to_create_te.php

[bluestateguy]

1. So rather than deport them, they will be used as slave labor?

That's what it seems like.

[PDJane]

2. Not talking about a shantytown?

Then what is he talking about? Maricopa county Arpaio can certainly tell him how to run a slave labour camp, and that is certainly what his proposal sounds like.

By the way, getting into something personal, that face gives me the creepies. Flat eyes, slicked hair, a shark's smile....gak.