Sheriff Apologizes for Remarks About Hispanics Lorenzo Perez, News&Observer (Raleigh), September 8, 2008 Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell apologized this evening for his portrayal of the Mexican immigrant community...The apology came in a one-paragraph statement e-mailed to the newspaper shortly before 5 p.m. after todays newspaper included a front-page article in which Bizzell criticized illegal immigrants for breeding like rabbits and declared, Mexicans are trashy....
[Bizzell] helped make North Carolina one of the most aggressive states in the nation for deporting illegal immigrants...[Concerning the] sheriffs concern over Johnston Countys changing demographic. Bizzell had said: Everywhere you look its like little Mexico around here.
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