Part 1 - Saban press briefing on Mesa City Hall Raid

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forgery and fraud cases, 36 percent of kidnappings can be traced to illegal immigrants.

Eighteen percent of property crimes were committed by people in the county illegally and that accounts for another $24 million in costs to citizens.

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County Attorney Andrew Thomas says nine percent of the states population is here illegally. The number believed to be around 619,000 people according to the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy.

Almost 22 percent of the felons sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court are illegal immigrants.

Thomas says almost 17 of the violent crime is linked to illegal immigrants at a cost to citizens of $59 million last year alone. More than 10 percent of the murders, 44 percent of

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In most other parts of the country this would be seen as a stunning misuse of firepower, a waste of resources and a bizarre intrusion by one government agency onto anothers turf. Neither the mayor nor Mesas Police Department had been warned about the raids. And the city had already been investigating the companys hiring.

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A War on Janitors

The New York Times

Published: October 19, 2008

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The Wild West weirdness of the nations immigration policy reached new extremes last week in Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb where the county sheriff, Joe Arpaio, has gone off the rails as the self-appointed scourge of people without papers. About 2 a.m. on Thursday, Sheriff Arpaio sent out a strike force of 30 detectives and 30 members of his volunteer posse, with semiautomatic weapons and dogs, to look for illegal janitors.