> MCSO Responds To Business Owners' Complaints
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> POSTED: 10:53 am MST March 20, 2008
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> PHOENIX -- Nearly 200 sheriff's deputies and posse members are poised to
> launch a new patrol in two areas of Phoenix after business owners
> complained of rising crime, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
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> Owners complained of increases in criminal activity and other problems
> largely related to illegal immigrants and day laborers in their
> neighborhoods, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said.
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> Arpaio said he will send hundreds of volunteer armed posse men and women
> along with several ICE-trained deputies to saturate the two areas
> beginning Friday at 4 p.m.
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> "Businesses owners in these two parts of Phoenix have indicated to me
> that they are extremely frustrated with the growing problems associated
> with illegal immigration," Arpaio said. "They say they feel that only ...