*The clincher here is that even if the prosecutor decides to not go after Arpaio, Judge Snow can appoint a special prosecutor. Arpaio, by the way, is up for reelection. VL
By Nicolas Loffredo, Newsweek (4 minute read)
A sheriff who has courted media attention for his draconian treatment of inmates may face prosecution stemming from his treatment of the local Latino community and disregard of court orders.
Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio may face criminal contempt charges after the federal judge in a racial profiling case asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to prosecute, saying Arpaio and some of his subordinates ignored orders to stop profiling Latinos solely on the assumption that they’re in the country illegally and lied under oath. If Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt, he could face jail time, and if the U.S. Attorney’s Office declines to prosecute, the federal judge could appoint a special prosecutor, CNN reports.
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“On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone,” Sergio Troncoso writes in this riveting collection of sixteen personal essays in which he seeks to connect the humanity of his Mexican family to people he meets on the East Coast, including his wife’s Jewish kin. Raised in a home steps from the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, Troncoso crossed what seemed an even more imposing border when he left home to attend Harvard College.
Initially, “outsider status” was thrust upon him; later, he adopted it willingly, writing about the Southwest and Chicanos in an effort to communicate who he was and where he came from to those unfamiliar with his childhood world. He wrote to maintain his ties to his parents and his abuelita, and to fight against the elitism he experienced at an Ivy League school. “I was torn,” he writes, “between the people I loved at home and the ideas I devoured away from home.”
Troncoso writes to preserve his connections to the past, but he puts pen to paper just as much for the future. In his three-part essay entitled “Letter to My Young Sons,” he documents the terror of his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis and the ups and downs of her surgery and treatment. Other essays convey the joys and frustrations of fatherhood, his uneasy relationship with his elderly father and the impact his wife’s Jewish heritage and religion have on his Mexican-American identity.
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