Posted on 08/25/2017 8:09:52 PM PDT by hapnHal
WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a notorious former Arizona sheriff who willfully violated a federal judges order by unlawfully detaining individuals his officers claimed might be in the country illegally.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had previously proclaimed himself Americas toughest sheriff, was convicted of criminal contempt last month for violating a 2011 order that barred Arpaio and his office from detaining individuals solely based on suspicions about their legal status. Arpaio, 85, was scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 5.
Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his lifes work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration, the White House said in a statement late Friday. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is a worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon.
Trumps pardon of Arpaio, the first of his presidency, amounts to a tacit endorsement of Arpaios discriminatory tactics and reads as a favor to a political ally. The media-savvy former sheriff, known for parading inmates around in pink underwear, supported the former reality TV stars presidential campaign and spoke at the Republican National Convention last summer. Both men were prominent promoters of the racist conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama wasnt born in the United States.
Arpaio, who served as sheriff from 1993 through 2016, had long been accused of discriminatory practices against Latinos. A 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Justices Civil Rights Division concluded there was reasonable cause to believe that Arpaio and his office engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful policing and racial profiling. Arpaios officers called Latinos wetbacks, Mexican bitches, fucking Mexicans and stupid Mexicans, the Justice Department found, and Latino drivers were four to nine times as likely to be stopped by his officers as non-Latino drivers were. A lawsuit filed by the Justice Department was settled in 2015.
With his pardon of Arpaio, Trump has chosen lawlessness over justice, division over unity, hurt over healing, Cecillia Wang, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement Friday. Once again, the president has acted in support of illegal, failed immigration enforcement practices that target people of color and have been struck down by the courts. His pardon of Arpaio is a presidential endorsement of racism.
At a Tuesday evening rally in Phoenix, Trump had signaled that the pardon was coming. The president claimed Arpaio had been convicted for doing his job. But Trump said, Ill make a prediction: I think hes going to be just fine, OK?
We've still got to hear what Senator McTumor Timex thinks, his South Carolina echo, Pelowsy, the celebrities, the Latinos, the mayors, the Europeans, the UN, Australia, and nobody has threatened the president yet or told us the impact his decision has had on the environment. Then we can have the parade of victims, protests, threats of civil war, impeachment, and hear pearls of wisdom from Maxine's wig.
You don't want to miss a second!
And there’s just as many that don’t. You can’t provide genuine statistics to support your claim. Yes, President Trump has said we shouldn’t have been there, but that was years ago. He’s also said we shouldn’t retreat, because it would leave the country open to invasion. He might at one time said we shouldn’t have gone in, but he’s never promised to remove the troops, which is something some folks here on FR don’t seem to understand or care to understand. The man at least deserves the chance to do right by our military personnel who lost their lives over there, and the families they left behind.
Afghanistan doesn’t pose a threat to our country? What the hell was 9/11 then? Have you forgotten that mastermind bin Laden planned and oversaw that operation and others from Afghanistan? Wake up!
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My step-mother, a Canadian, entered legally.
Her two daughters, my step-sisters, entered legally.
The two daughters of one of them were born Canadian and became naturalized citizens.
The husband of one of the step-sisters, is a naturalized citizen from Honduras and a prominent Oncologist in S.E. Michigan............
Yes!
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