Meanwhile, in Arizona, a county sheriff is coming under criticism for parading a group of chained undocumented prisoners through the streets of Phoenix. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio rounded up some 200 prisoners before their transfer to the infamous Tent City jail. Arpaio is known for targeting immigrants and arresting them if they can’t prove documented residency. Joanne Lin of the American Civil Liberties Union called the latest action an attempt to humiliate the prisoners.

Joanne Lin: “Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona actually closed down a public road in order to create this spectacle of this parade of 200 immigrants in a chain gang. Clearly, this was designed to be a public spectacle, designed to humiliate all these 200 people and actually immigrant communities generally. Were he really interested in actually transferring them, he could have put them on a bus or on a van.”

Last year, a group of Latino activists in Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing Arpaio of racial profiling.