Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Tent City will finally close at the end of this year. But it's open today, in Arizona's 117° heat.
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Tent City is an abomination. That its existed for more than 20 years is shameful.
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Six years ago, I investigated Tent City—which is home to countless undocumented people before detention.
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I remember one day when it was 113° in Phoenix. Completely unbearable.
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Back then, no one reported on immigrant detention centers. What I confirmed was horrifying.
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Places like Tent City essentially kill people. The story I focused on was about the death of David de la Fuente. It haunts me to this day.
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In one of my many reporting files, I still have the bright pink wrist tag de la Fuente was made to wear at Tent City.
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Tent City makes men wear pink wrist tags and pink underwear as a form of humiliation.
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As the name suggests, Tent City is just that: tents in Arizona's unbearable heat. It often houses Mexican nationals for traffic violations.
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For de la Fuente, Tent City was his first stop after being pulled over by Phoenix PD for "looking Hispanic." His traffic citation says that.
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A few weeks later, de la Fuente was dead—immediately after he was deported.
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@aurabogado: De la Fuente was one person. And it took me several months in two the U.S. and Mexico to piece everything together.1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes -
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Every time I think about how hot Phoenix is, I think about David de la Fuente and about how much blood Sheriff Arpaio has on his hands.
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