Amy Goodman
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Republicans Debate in Arizona As GOP Faces Backlash Over Extremist, Anti-Immigrant Policies
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February 23, 2012
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10:45Now Playingdemocracynow.org - With Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the audience, leading Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum praised Arizona's crackdown on immigration during a debate on Wednesday night. Romney vowed to drop the Obama administration's immigration lawsuits against the state of Arizona on the first day of his presidency. Santorum said police across the country should be given, "the opportunity to do what they're doing here in Arizona and what Sheriff Arpaio was doing before he ran into some issues with the federal government." Santorum's comment comes just months after a federal Department of Justice investigation found "a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos" in Arpaio's office. Arizona journalist Terry Greene Sterling says, "Republican overreach" could lead to an Obama victory in Arizona in November. "What has happened in Arizona is that the Arizona Legislature has been taken over by the extreme right-wing of the Arizona Republican Party. An agenda of extremist bills has been passed and proposed," Greene Sterling says. "As a result, Democrats are saying, 'Wait a minute. We think we can win moderates and independents into our wing.'"
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