"The main story is that people are coming into this country to look for opportunity, to create a better life for their family, sometimes running from terrible violence, and we need to address that," she said. Sanders said the stories illustrated the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
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One girl, who did not give her full name, told Sanders she fears Arpaio coming to take her parents away again. On Sunday, she visited Oak Flat, the site near Superior called sacred by some members of the San Carlos Apache tribe that is at the center of a continuing controversy over a major mining project.įollowing the tour, Sanders went to the headquarters of Puente, the immigrants-rights organization, to meet with relatives of people arrested by Arpaio's office. While in Arizona, Jane Sanders has met with Native American and Latino leaders. "I hadn’t even thought of that being here in Arizona.” "I heard today about the cold," Sanders said, following the tour. View Gallery: Jane Sanders visits Joe Arpaio, speaks in Phoenixĭuring the tour, Sanders spoke with a handful of inmates in both English and Spanish about their crimes and the conditions in the jail.Īnd although she had earlier worried about the heat, the inmates let her know that this week brought the opposite problem. Sanders: "Well, the jails are supposed to treat our people humanely." "Īrpaio: "Yeah, it’s about 130 degrees during the summer."
Sanders: "You feel that this is humane, the way that you. Sanders: "You’re talking about Wall Street, right?” (laughs)Īrpaio: "Wall Street? I don’t know about Wall Street. Sanders: "Do you think there are too many people in jail in this country?"Īrpaio: "I don’t think that there's enough, because when you look at all the crime going on …” (shakes his head) Is that accurate?”Īrpaio: “No, I’m not gonna get into any of the legal matters. Sanders: “Is the racial profiling, that is approved, the ability to deputize almost anyone to go and raid homes and say 'papers please'?. Sanders: "What about the racial profiling? I know that you have been supportive of it."Īrpaio: "I am not supportive of racial profiling."Īrpaio: "I am not going to get into that because of court. The tone was polite, if slightly awkward. Throughout the tour, Sanders and Arpaio exchanged similar remarks, with the senator's wife asking questions and the sheriff providing established answers. "No, that’s why I like talking to you is because at least I can get my side," Arpaio said.
"I had heard the opposite I thought that it had changed." "OK, I had not heard that," Sanders responded. "These are all convicted (inmates)," Arpaio said. military who are "fighting for our country" and living in tents. It's hard to be in those tents," Sanders told Arpaio in one exchange.Īrpaio responded with his stock answer: The conditions are similar to those endured by members of the U.S. "This sun - we're out here for just a few minutes.
However, he told her "there's a lot of misunderstanding about the tents" and that he was happy to discuss the facility. Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office was found by a federal judge to have racially profiled Latinos during enforcement activities. Outside Tent City, Jane Sanders asked Arpaio about racial profiling, but Arpaio declined to answer, citing legal concerns. Sanders let him know she preferred Bernie Sanders. Arpaio walked over from a news conference he was holding nearby, greeted her and offered her a tour.Īrpaio let her know that he was a supporter of Donald Trump for president. Sanders stood along the outside of Tent City, peering into it through a fence. The campaign, in a release, had called conditions in the jail "inhumane." Sanders had not planned to tour the inside of Tent City, where inmates are kept in canvas tents. Bernie Sanders, was set to hold a presidential campaign rally in Phoenix, Jane Sanders held an impromptu event of her own, verbally sparring with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio before touring his outdoor jail known as Tent City.
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