<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>PHOENIX</strong><strong>, Ariz.</strong> — America’s self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a grand jury investigation into allegations of abuse of power.</p>
<p>The Maricopa County sheriff has made national headlines because of his immigration sweeps on Latino neighborhoods and a pending investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into racial profiling allegations.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The time has come for Latinos in the United States to receive their due credit, in the form of a museum on Washington’s National Mall alongside the country’s other great showcases of culture, says Emma Sepúlveda Pulvirenti, a professor of Spanish at the University of Nevada at Reno.</p>