[1][2][3] In 2004 hearings of the U.S. Senate, it was described as "the only major ethnic profiling incident actually related to immigration".
[2] However, many U.S. citizens and legal residents were also stopped and arrested, largely on the basis of their skin color, leading Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods to concede that their civil rights had been violated.
[7] Romero writes that "all were of Mexican ancestry or Latino" and that there is no record of any white person being detained in the raid.
[7] The lawsuits arising from the civil rights violations caused by the operation led to costly settlements.
[3][8] Police chief Bobby Joe Harris was reprimanded for the manner in which the raid was conducted, and the incident led to a recall bid against the mayor of Chandler and two city council members.