Posted on 08/26/2015 8:36:45 AM PDT by conservativejoy
PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio—known here simply as “Sheriff Joe”—loves 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and wants to accompany him on a trip to Mexico that would, in his estimation, either lead to a show of U.S. force in getting that country to come to the table on immigration and trade or expose that Mexico is uninterested in solving such problems.
“I want to go to Mexico,” Arpaio told Breitbart News in a wide-ranging, nearly two-hour long interview in his office at the Maricopa County justice complex in downtown Phoenix. “I’ve gotten resistance from the Mexican government, I’ve got resistance from the federal government here. It’s all got to do with danger. Come on? I’m not worried about it. It’s probably got to do with politics, not danger. Right?”
Arpaio pulled out for Breitbart News a print off of the congressional record from 1970 where he praised the Mexican government for working with U.S. law enforcement—at the time he was a federal agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Arpaio was stationed at one point in Mexico for the DEA, and in the testimony he gave to Congress he laid out how at that time the Mexican government worked with the United States to stop crime and aimed to end illegal immigration. “Here I’m praising the Mexican government, the judges, that’s 1970 when I lived there and worked there,” Arpaio said. “So I want to go. I want to meet with officials.”
“Let’s get to Trump now,” Arpaio said, moving the conversation along to the 2016 debates. “He’s talking about the fence, okay, or the wall, alright. I’ve been fighting this battle since I was a federal narcotics agent in 1957 because even then the drugs were all coming from Mexico.
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Bad idea. Both of their lives would be in danger.
Sounds like a scene from a Wild West movie of 1957
In all due respect to Sheriff Joe:
I don’t see the need to ‘bring Mexico to the table’ for anything. We the People decide our own future; we call the shots.
We want the illegals OUT, whether they are from Central American or the ME, and no exceptions. Trade policy will be formulated upon the swearing in of the new Chief Executive (using a BIBLE this time).
“Arpaio said he believes Trump can win the presidency.”
“Oh yeah. If you got a peanut farmer who won—Jimmy Carter—remember him?” Arpaio said when asked if Trump can win. “The irony is everybody in the world says if you ran the government like a business, we’d be in good shape. He ought to start using that phrase.”
Exactly what I thought. When Trump is President, he can call the Mexican President and tell him what the U.S. is going to do. No need to go to that awful country and put himself in danger.
“All the drugs come from Mexico...”
So I wonder who is paying who to keep the border open and the drugs coming in.
BUILD THE DAMN WALL NOW!
Love Sheriff Joe but this is just silliness. No good ever comes from someone that points out the culprit in an elevator farting.
Is he nuts?
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