Trump Rally With Sheriff Joe Arpaio Will Be Single Most Anti-Immigrant Event of the Year

Donald Trump will hold a rally in Arizona this weekend with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona Republic reports, a function that has the potential to set a new high water mark for anti-immigration sentiment verbalized at a single Republican primary event. The gathering was moved from a Phoenix theater to the city's convention center after what Trump's campaign described as an "overwhelming" demand for tickets.

There is no more natural a companion for Trump in the state of Arizona than Arpaio, whose county web page calls him "America's Toughest Sheriff." Arpaio has used his office to harass Latinos so egregiously in the name of immigration enforcement that a panel of judges gave his department its own federal monitor and the Department of Justice no longer allows him to detain suspected illegal immigrants on its behalf.

While Trump and Arpaio will have a lot to talk about on the subject of border security, their overlapping views aren't limited to the country's southern boundary: Trump is a long-time supporter of Arpaio's search for evidence that Barack Obama's family faked his Hawaiian birth and he is therefore not really president. Just in case anyone thought Trump had backed off of that, he reinforced his skepticism over Obama's citizenship in a CNN interview on Thursday.

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