By DAMIAN TRUJILLO
I asked the father of the family of four what he feels when he hears the name of Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio.
"Terror. Fear," said the father in Spanish.
The family asked we not identify them.
They sat in front of our cameras with the lights off to hide their identities.
They spoke with NBC Bay Area a few weeks after arriving in the Bay Area.
The family left Arizona after the state passed SB1070, the new immigration law, and after numerous raids by the sheriff on suspected undocumented immigrants.
"There's no liberty to go out with the family, to the park", said the father. "We prefer to stay inside our home because at least we felt protected there."
The family left everything behind in Arizona, jobs, friends, and family.
"It was a difficult decision," said the father.
His tearful wife would prefer to return to Mexico.
But she knows that is not possible any more.
There's violence in her home state, a state the family left 10 years ago.
And her children, now 12 and 18 years old, are doing well in this country.
The children say they feel like any other American kids.
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[Posted by Emma Mederos]
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