Staff / TruthdigJun 25, 2006
Dan Goldwater, a gubernatorial candidate in Arizona and nephew of the late Sen Barry Goldwater, told a Spanish news agency that he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting"
He claims, however, that his words were taken out of context--that he only wanted to put convicted immigrant felons to work
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