Maricopa County Series: Sheriff Arpaio's Actions Called Unconstitutional

We continue our series on Maricopa County, Arizona today, where a battle is intensifying between Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has served for 16 years and is seeking reelection come November, and activists who say Arpaio is using hate and racial profiling to divide a community. For the past two years, Arpaio's local deputies have enforced federal immigration law under an agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, called 287g. But people in Maricopa County say that 287g has now become a pretext for deputies to target and harass anyone with brown skin – regardless of their immigration status. And it's not just activists and organizers who allege that Arpaio has infringed on people's civil rights: Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is so disturbed by Sheriff Arpaio's tactics that he has personally written two letters to the FBI, demanding an investigation into what he says is discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches and arrests. Aura Bogado has the story.

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