There was no fear on their faces. Those weren’t the migrant children in the school bus. Those were children from the Marana school district. They were heading to the YMCA’s Triangle Y Camp, not far from the Rite of Passage shelter for the migrants, at the base of Mt. Lemmon.

 

12 News reporter Will Pitts, who was at the protest scene, says he saw the children laughing and taking pictures of the media.

Sheriff Paul Babeu is credited with stirring up the anti-immigrant protesters through social media postings and a press release and by leaking information about the migrants’ arrival to a local activist. […]

 

Immigrant rights activists questioned Babeu about agitating protesters when he should be bringing order as the county’s top lawman.