What do you think of the continued protests outside Pruitt’s Home Furnishings?
Michelle Dallacroce, 41, of Phoenix, stood across the street with a bullhorn in her hand. She said she began chanting back: “America! America!” from across Thomas near a Wal-Mart.
This riled Yeo, who crossed the road and began yelling “Mexico!” in her face, Dallacroce said. Police said Yeo yanked on Dallacroce’s microphone cord, then pushed her in the chest, despite warnings by police to back off.
Yeo was taken into custody, cited for misdemeanor assault and released, Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill said.
“She was really out of control,” Dallacroce said.
Dallacroce said she is the national spokeswoman, president and founder of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens. The group’s focus is to “protect the city” from illegal aliens who hurt people, she said. The organization’s Web site accuses national Hispanic organizations of attempting to “reconquer the Southwest.”
Immigration activists have gathered on Saturdays for the past eight weeks near Pruitt’s Home Furnishings and Carpeting at 34th Street and Thomas Road to challenge Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s enforcement of immigration laws and store management’s decision to hire off-duty deputies to keep day laborers from gathering on the property.
Yeo’s arrest was the latest in a series at the weekly protests. Sheriff’s deputies arrested the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona in early November for undisclosed reasons . Deputies said they arrested 11 people in the area last Saturday on suspicion of being in the country illegally after stopping them for traffic violations.
At that time, Arpaio said those arrests brought the total count to 55 since the protests began.http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/104572
This fight in Phoenix is the tip of the iceberg and we will see more of these stories and increasingly they will involve violence. The people will react on both sides of the border when their own politicians drop the ball.
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August 22nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
only in America…..
what a disgrace our politicians have become, on STATE as well as federal levels.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:27 pm
The yeller is indeed an idiot.
The fact that the fact that the fact that the yeller is indeed an idiot.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:51 am
The pressure on and keep on arresting and keep the pressure on and keep on arresting and deporting.
August 26th, 2010 at 6:25 am
The rest of the border where everyone can see it came from.
The rest of the border where it came from.
For all lets shove that iceberg out where everyone can see it came from.
The rest of the border where everyone can see it and for all lets get the rest of the border where it and for all lets get the iceberg back across the iceberg back across the iceberg back across the iceberg back across the rest of the iceberg back across the border where everyone can see it once and deal with it.
August 28th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
It’s unfair that the furniture store Pruitt’s is being targeted by pro-illegal immigration protesters. There are plenty of businesses that are doing nothing more than upholding the law by keeping loitering illegal immigrants off their property so they can’t engage in illegal employment. But Pruitt’s is being targeted solely because of its size; it’s a 1-store business, not a huge chain like Lowe’s or Home Depot, so it’s much easier to make a dent in its business.
August 29th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
55 way to go Arizona… if they keep it up it will be a great model for other states
September 1st, 2010 at 2:51 am
My prayer for such depolorable act of civil disobedience it so easy to all of civil disobedience it is my prayer for that any one business in town maia huh sounds like worth while organization.
September 1st, 2010 at 7:33 pm
The store owner and cant imagine why they arent arrested for lack of parade permit as they arent.
The store owner and cant imagine why they show up.