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What You Need to Read, Listen, and Watch to Understand Immigration Politics and Activism Curated by the Authors of “Driving While Brown” Article In The Thread In their new book, Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino Resistance, Jude Joffe-Block (New Arizona Fellow 2017) and coauthor Terry Greene Sterling tell the story of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s unprecedented immigration crackdowns and the grassroots movement that organized against him and help...

Latino-led opposition brought down the Maricopa County sheriff. Image credit: Jude Joffe-Block April 30, 2021 Over the course of a decade, from 2006 to 2016, a Latino-led movement in Arizona’s Maricopa County fought Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his local immigration crackdowns. American citizens of Latino descent, who felt targeted by Arpaio’s immigrant roundups, joined a movement to gather evidence against the sheriff in a landmark racial profiling lawsuit. Federal courts later...