The police chief in Peoria, Arizona has launched an investigation into what activists are calling a “de facto immigration checkpoint” that nabbed young immigrants attending a speech President Barack Obama delivered on immigration reform last month. “It was a de facto immigration checkpoint,” Respeto executive director Lydia Guzman recently explained…
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