Arizona

GOP Candidate for AZ-GOV Wants 'Tent Cities' For Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Other Crimes

Jillian Rayfield | June 10, 2010, 3:57PM

Dean Martin, Arizona state treasurer and Republican candidate for governor, is pushing a plan that would create "tent cities" to house illegal immigrants convicted of other crimes, modeled after notorious anti-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio's set-up in his own Maricopa County.

In an interview with TPM, Martin described how the state could use the tent cities to provide "inexpensive temporary housing" that would save them enough money to deploy more troops down to the border.

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Topics: Arizona, Dean Martin, Immigration, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio