Posted on 10/14/2009 8:35:24 AM PDT by jazusamo
PHOENIX | The man who likes to call himself "America's toughest sheriff," Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., is planning a Friday showdown with the feds.
The sheriff has announced he will defy the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by doing a street sweep for illegal immigrants one day after the expiration of the agreement that has permitted him to conduct such operations for the past three years. The sheriff has said he expects the deal not to be extended, though federal officials have remained publicly noncommittal.
Deputies, and Sheriff Arpaio, will stake out an intersection somewhere in the Phoenix metro area to stop cars for traffic violations - everything from speeding to broken taillights to driving while intoxicated. Both drivers and passengers will be held if deputies determine that they are illegal immigrants - regardless of how minor was the initial infraction.
Sheriff Arpaio is charging ahead because he claims he has jurisdiction under a 1996 federal law allowing police to detain someone briefly if that person could be in the country illegally.
"We will call Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] to see if they will take them from us," Sheriff Arpaio told The Washington Times. "And if they tell me to let them go, I guess I'll have to transport them myself to the border [about 175 miles] and turn them over to the Border Patrol."
Sheriff Arpaio, 77 but looking 10 years younger, has been shaking up Maricopa County for 17 years, and he's not ready to quiet down: "I just got re-elected last year, but I'm going to run again, and I've already raised a lot of money. They'll have to put up with me for another seven years."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Go get’em, Paisan!
Joe’s great, isn’t he?
Go get ‘em, Joe!!!!!!!
That’s an understatement! LOL
Joe is the man. I fully expect him to go balls-to-the-wall with this as he always does. He’s not some kind of loose cannon nutjob. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
We need hundreds more sheriff’s just like him!
any chance he could replace McLame?
I love the part about transporting them to the border himself.
Sheriff Joe: keep sticking your finger in the eyes of the corrupt federales—you’re the only one we have brave enough to do so. All the rest run like rabbits when the feds give them orders.
LOL! I imagine the feds are not happy they provoked this.
Oh this could get good. If the feds try to go after him for trying to make Arizona streets safer, they’re going look like bigger fools than they already do ... if that is possible. Though, I imagine that’s exactly why he’s doing it.
"He said he expects to use a new secret weapon,' but declined to say what it is."
Yeah, maybe that's because it's... secret!
Give ‘em hell Joe !
He is certainly a legend in his own time, something no democrat can ever claim!
Patriot.
The Founders never intended for the federal government to dominate every aspect and detail of our lives or to dictate to the states which laws they can and cannot enforce. The rightful relationship is for the states to determine what they want the federal government to do, or not to do.
We are already well down the road of a revolution against the constitution by the federal government and the Obama administration is determined to finish it off.
Maybe a “day laborer” sting...
Hah! I wonder how many feds are giving that a lot of thought, I’d bet a bunch and that’s exactly why he said it.
We’ll see....
Shouldn't that read "regardless of how minor the initial infraction was"?
Regards,
Wouldn’t that be sweet? But,somehow I can’t see him getting mixed up with the dirty din of Washington politics.He knows he’s much more effective where he is.However, I think he’d make an excellent governor.
Grammar aside, I like it!!
OMG, you’re not kidding!
What I can’t understand is where the feds get off thinking they can deny him picking up illegals under his jurisdiction. They are criminals in his county and it’s his job to pick up criminals in his county. Do the feds want him to ignore murderers, child molesters, and DUIs along with the illegals?
Some reporter is trying to sound smart, whomever they may be. ;)
That’s the pathetic thing about this. The feds want the criminal illegals arrested but if they’re not criminals they want him to release them. Last I heard it’s a crime to enter the country illegally and Sheriff Joe thinks so too.
Refreshing to a see a man in a sea of political capons.
Plus thousands of politicians just like Joe
Should we offer some bounty for each dearly deported one? Say $20 or $50 to Arpio or Maricopa County coffers to cover the cost of gas? I would offer more for say Chinese or Arab nationals as you gotta wonder why they would be in the country when they don’t even come from South or Central America, no?
The Feds would screwup a 2 car funeral. Most likely They (feds) will get lost on Friday.
This is Obama’s new voting block coming across the border. Most likely the Feds will start busing them in from the border
Today:
http://cis.org/ZogbyPoll-EffectsOfAmnesty
Poll: Mexicans Say Amnesty Would Increase Illegal Immigration
Mexicans also Feel Mexican-Americans Should Be Loyal to Mexico
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new survey by Zogby
International finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal immigrants would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States.[snip]
The Mexicans are smarter than US politicians. I say let’s grab 537 random illegal aliens and put them in congress and the WH. And send the current batch of stooges in power to Mexico.
They're not only smarter than the majority of our pathetic politicians, they have learned about history repeating itself.
Damn, I like this guy.
If we just had a few hundred more like him along the border, we’d start to see a serious dent in illegal immigration numbers.
I wish he was 20 years younger.
Why aren’t there more Sheriff Joes?
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