sheriffjoe arpaio, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ee years or so, you focused more and more of your time and your resources on the issue of illegal immigration. why? well, first of all, you talk about resources. i did had special grants from the state legislature, so that helped out. when people talk about "i waste my budget going afterjust illegal aliens," the reason i started focusing on this problem was that two new state laws were passed, that no—one talks about. they talk about the present controversial, called a 1070 law, but we had two other laws pass — human smuggling and employer sanction. so i decided to enforce those laws — that happen to be felonies, most of the laws i'm talking about. so i started enforcing the human smuggling, arrested over 2,000 people coming into our county, maricopa county, arizona, and we arrest the smuggler, what they call ‘coyotes,’ and the co—conspirators. and when you say ‘co—conspirators,‘ you regard the people who are being smuggled as co—conspirators? exactly. we're the only agency doing that.

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of hardtalk‘s 20—year anniversary, another chance to see stephen sackur‘s 2010 interview with sheriffjoe arpaio