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Arpaio's policies toward immigrants, undocumented people and just in general. i feel he's doing a lot of, like, inhumane type of, you know, activities in arizona. >> so we've got a little situation. >> si, se puede. si, se puede. >> deputies in riot gear secure the facilities closest and special response teams have been deployed to o-yard. >> we have heightened security on the yard now in case something does happen. my squad, c-squad is on the compound. the inmates can sense a change in routine. they sense something's out of the norm. they see srtc-squad here. it's not a big deal. we spend 30 ...

Special response teams to o-yard in case things get out of hand. while many of the protesters accuse the sheriff and his deputies of being racist, arpaio says it's not true and that his unconventional practices have always made him a target. >> i'm not going to get into my personal grandkids, but i will tell you this, so i'm the racist? you can have all these critics call me in my office every name in the book, we kill people, on and on and on. they don't like the way i operate. i say "they," a small percentage, because when you look at the polls, i think most people like what i'm doing. they ...

>> this is my first day. i'm two hours in right now, just cleaning up. we keep cleaning, we keep cleaning, we mop, we do a couple of toilets. this is a women's holding cell. >> the chief benefit of the new job is that it earns him two for one time. meaning he gets an extra day off his sentence for each day he works. >> two for one so you'll be out in half the time. >> absolutely. >> how much longer? >> i don't even count the days, technically, because it's a really bad thing. it's like a bad omen, but i'm march 12th. i don't want to know how many days that is whatsoever. >> harrington will ser...

Of our inmates are here undocumented. they don't have papers. they're here illegally. when an illegal immigrant commits a crime, they're put under arrest. they're brought to o-yard. once they serve their time for that crime, we release them to i.c.e. i.c.e. conducts interviews with each one of them to further investigate their citizenship here, and many of them will be deported back to mexico. >> if i go back to mexico, it's like starting over from somewhere i've never been. it's like if they dropped me off in china or russia. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> ivan diaz has been in o-yard ...

They're brought to o-yard. once they serve their time for that crime, we release them to i.c.e. i.c.e. conducts interviews with each one of them to further investigate their citizenship here, and many of them will be deported back to mexico. >> if i go back to mexico, it's like starting over from somewhere i've never been. it's like if they dropped me off in china or russia. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> ivan diaz has been in o-yard for the last two weeks since his arrest for giving wrongful information to a police officer who he says approached him and asked for identification. >> and...