My former colleague and friend Aura Bogado’s reporting on Arizona, Arpaio and immigration hit the front page of Mother Jones Magazine’s website yesterday. The article, “Hazing Arizona,” was based on months spent tracking down stories of the state’s misguided policies long before SB 1070 ever hit our national consciousness. Perhaps her most shocking find was the story of David de la Fuente. Immigrants, as you will learn, don’t just die attempting to cross the border.
De la Fuente was in Arizona when he was pulled over and detained for providing a false driver’s license. He came down with pneumonia – alternating between searing heat and a frigid cell – while in Arpaio’s Durango detention facility. Found to be without papers, he was deported without any regard to his deteriorating condition. Back in Mexico, de la Fuente died of complications that were too far gone to be successfully treated by Mexican doctors.
Read the story of David de la Fuente as well as others in Arizona online and be sure to check out the accompanying photo essay: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/sheriff-joe-arpaio-maricopa-county-sb-1070
It’s a damn shame this man, Joe Arpaio, was allowed to visit Santa Ana a few months ago while developers and city leaders played “deaf, dumb and blind.”
Murderers!
Agree! However killing of Susie Young Kim in front of her 18 month old daughter by trigger happy Santa Ana Mexican COP was more brutal and dramatic than the above.
I wonder what would you report if the exactly same incident under same circumstances would happen in Arizona by Arpaio COPs.
O’ I forgot, she was Korean so she does not count and deserve it…… Huh?
Do you know that this was done with malice or racial motivation? A tragic death I’m sure but something that sadly occurs all too frequently to many people of color every day in this country.
If it was or wasn’t done with malice, racially motivated or with hate is irrelevant!
I am comparing this incident [as is] to be committed in Arizona in oppose to the Santa Ana.
How would Art report it.