Just this alone proves you have no idea what your talking about. Joe Arpio did not hate Latino's, he simply dared to enforce a law that the people of Arizona voted massively in favour of passing, twice if you consider the previous bill as SB 1070's predecessor that the overwhelmingly politically biased 9th circuit court shat on the second it was also passed through with a large majority.
United States v. Maricopa County was nothing more than a hitjob against Arpio by a biased DOJ, which is obvious seeing as they couldn't get a conviction on such racial profiling and then settled out of court......
Sherif Arpaio should never have gotten a pardon, there is no doubt the guy was racist. From the ACLU:
In traffic stops, workplace raids, and neighborhood sweeps, Arpaio ordered deputies to target residents solely based on their ethnicity, often detaining people without reasonable suspicion that they were violating any laws that his office was allowed to enforce.
In the civil rights case against Arpaio, the federal court found that Arpaio systematically targeted Latinos for traffic stops and illegally detained them.
After he was ordered to stop his illegal immigration policies, Arpaio deliberately left his unconstitutional practices in place, leading first to a civil contempt proceeding and then to his contempt conviction.
The people of Maricopa County paid the price for Arpaio’s pursuit of illegal immigration enforcement policies, suffering damage to community safety. In 2011, the Associated Press found that Arpaio’s office ignored hundreds of sex crime cases, including cases of alleged child abuse. One officer told the AP that many of those cases involved the children of undocumented immigrants.
A Justice Department civil rights complaint similarly stated that the county failed “to adequately respond to reports of sexual violence, including allegations of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse of girls,” noting that county’s single-minded focus on immigration arrests led to an increase in the rate of violent crime.
Arpaio is best known for establishing Tent City, a sprawling, outdoor detention center which he once positively compared to a “concentration camp.” Temperatures in Tent City, which is surrounded by an electrocuted fence, could reach up to 141 degrees; one detainee said life in Tent City felt “like you are in a furnace.” People held there were primarily Latinos — he called it “the tent where all the Mexicans are” — and were put into chain gangs and subjected to humiliating practices like public parades.
Women of color in Arpaio’s jails were particularly mistreated. The Justice Department discovered cases where Latina detainees were “denied basic sanitary items” and were “forced to remain with sheets or pants soiled from menstruation” or were put into “solitary confinement for extended periods of time because of their inability to understand and thus follow a command given in English.”
In what was called “the biggest misspending of state funds in the history of Arizona,” Arpaio’s department misappropriated tens of millions of taxpayers’ dollars meant to improve the county’s jails and used the money to conduct immigration sweeps, investigate Arpaio’s critics, and pay for personal travel.
People in Arpaio’s jails were subject to substandard health care, sometimes to the point of extreme suffering, even death. The ACLU challenged Arpaio over his failure to meet the health needs of the people in his jails, and won in court when a federal judge agreedthat the deficient and dangerous health care system violated detainees’ constitutional right to adequate care. Detainees with mental illnesses were especially victimized in Arpaio’s jails.
Neglect appeared to be standard procedure in Arpaio’s jails. When a diabetic detainee who had not received insulin shots began vomiting and having seizures, she was roundly ignored by jail staff. Eventually, one guard simply moved her into another room to muffle her cries for help.
The Phoenix New Times also discovered that “people hang themselves in the sheriff’s jail at a rate that dwarfs other county lockups,” comparing the medical care found at county jails to those of prisoner-of-war camps.
Arpaio was known to intimidate supposed enemies, including a judge’s spouse, a political rival, a county official, and a reporter. The Justice Department also found that his office “engaged in a pattern or practice of retaliating against individuals for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech,” as deputies tried “to silence individuals who have publicly spoken out and participated in protected demonstrations” against Arpaio.
In one infamous case, people working under Arpaio staged an assassination attempt against him in order to boost his popularity — framing an innocent man in the process. He spent four years in jail waiting to clear his name and eventually received a $1.1 million settlement.
While Trump seems to think that Arpaio is the victim, a presidential pardon for the former sheriff would just be the latest injustice to befall the countless people wronged by his years of racism, lawlessness, and abuse.
There is no doubt that Trump defends the American economy like a lion from the evil and corrupt communist Chinese.
Pretty much everything Trump has said about China (and economics in general) has been ether wrong or a blatant lie. You people need to face it that Trump has no clue about anything to do with economics or international trade. Hell, even his economic adviser Kudlow is a total failure in economics and is notorious for being wrong about almost everything. And the Trump administration's own white paper describing their economic proposals has been called "a complete mess".
Trump has said that China is paying for the tariffs, which is false. The companies exporting/importing and American consumers are paying for them. Trump has said that trade wars are good... also false. Almost every economist agrees that trade wars are terrible and only serve to damage both sides. Trump said that trade wars are easy to win... LOL... yeah tell it to the American steel workers and the farmers that are now getting government handout because of all the money they're losing. And even after the trade war, they're pretty much SOL because Chinese companies are already finding new suppliers in other countries. Once those trade relationships are done... it's very hard to re-establish them. Lastly, Trump is now calling China a "currency manipulator" which is funny because his own administration has been saying they're not. In any case, what China has done recently is not currency manipulation, they just literally stopped trying to prop it up. Their currency is going down because of what Trump is doing and nothing more. So again, Trump just doesnt care about the truth, he only cares about telling people the lies he thinks they'll accept.
The stock markets have been showing us how terrible Trump and his administration are for the last year and a half. Obama left a growing economy and low unemployment rate, and a shrinking deficit. Trump has taken that and pretty much destroyed it all. Now the debt is ballooning and the markets are in chaos with hundreds of billions of dollars being lost. In fact, many economists now believe that because of Trump's actions we're well on our way to another recession, or even a bigger economic collapse. And... much of the data supports this.
You can continue to believe the lies and nonsense from Trump and the Republican propaganda network, but it only further demonstrates that you're immune to reality and facts. You believe what you want to believe, and are only interested in regurgitating the inane propaganda you get in your media bubble.
We have to see first where the problem started and American companies did a terrible mistake, they enrooted themselves to deep into this mess, China proposed cheap labor for free and Americans bit the bait, that's what we have, but thanks to Trump, many American factories are closing in China and they're returning to America.
Sure, there will be some loses, but that's the price, and if America goes in recession, China will fall into the deepest hole ever, fall into an eternal crisis and they will start eating themselves, that's the good thing about being powerful, when you have other countries which are completely dependent on the following outstanding economic influence, that's the price they shall pay.
When you look at Germany, German companies did not sacrifice or close any factory in Germany, so they can open new ones in China, premium cars and some middle-class cars models are produced in Germany, and cheaper models are produced in China, Brazil, Mexico, etc... they did not focus the majority on China, the US could have done the same thing, but it seems that greed was too powerful, now, there you have the consequences, but Trump is right.
One thing is that as a typical leftist with double morals, it seems that for you it's the same to consume products from an enslaved population, but if you would be living in China and be a worker there, you would cry and beg your momy to breastfeed you.
However, Trump is making new trade deals with Europe, during the following meeting, European representatives already acknowledged in front of Trump that China is a threat, it's time for the West to come closer to each other and slowly cut off China.
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This proceeding will be a little painful for the West, because even Europeans and Australians enrooted themselves into this mess, not like the U.S but still, that's the price in order to sink the Chinese evil in hell.
The West became a junkie on heroin and now it's time for the detoxification/rehabilitation.
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This American product wasn't in Germany 3 years ago and now it's there, and it's damn tasty, this is one of so many proofs, that the West is starting to cooperate with each other more closely, because that's how things should be, if one side stumbles the other one stretches out his hand and helps him up, that's what happened after the WWII with the Marshal Plan, we conservative Europeans did not forget about that.
@just_sayin: We should stamp out all terrorists, foreign and domestic, that includes these "white supremacists terrorists" that are terrorizing our society, and it's time for you to stop defending them and making excuses for them.
Hey, I'm with you on stamping out white supremacists buddy. I know where one lives - the governor's mansion in Virginia. I think I got his picture around here somewhere:
There it is!
I understand he's doing a lot of fundraising for Democrats right now.
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