Posted on 10/18/2009 5:21:26 AM PDT by RoadTest
SURPRISE, Ariz. — An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.
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We they refuse to obey the will of the people, the people must......
Go for it Joe! Watch yer back bro!
I’m sure Maricopa isn’t on the “Tour Guides” those illegal non-citizen border crossers have. Isn’t it amazing that when you know you can’t break the law and be immune to pusnishment that you don’t go there? Too bad the whole country can’t do that!
It’s a State’s Rights issue, Joe, and you are not a Federal employee. To do what DHS orders is to surrender sovernty.
Are there songs written about Sheriff Joe?
There darn well should be.
Take it to the bank.
The good folks in Arizona need to rise up in support of Sheriff Joe, and against their former Governor, who is a disgrace as the head of Homeland Security.
Just don’t expect any help from their senior Senator.
I suspect Joe and Janet have some history.
But Joe is on solid ground.
For years, the locals were schooled by ICS and their predecessor INS to stay out of the immigration business.
Meanwhile, local sheriff and police depts. watched as federal laws went unenforced by both federal agencies and prosecutors.
Overtime, local departments watched their communities disassemble with the failure of ICE to do its job.
When competent sheriffs and chiefs find they have the budget resources to enforce state and local laws against undocumented individuals, more power to them.
We have to expect that the liberals in power have high expectations that they can pass some kind of amnesty or at least find ways to give more illegals on the voting register.
I welcome folks from other nations having a desire to move here, but do it the right way.
And when you come, learn English, become a citizen, work hard, pay your bills, and forget your allegiance to whatever nation you emigrated from.
More power to Sheriff Joe for doing what his county is paying him to do.
More power to Sheriff Joe for doing what his county is paying him to do.
I love this guy!
Sure wish OTHER sheriffs out there would grow a pair somewhat as LARGE as Joe’s.
Is there any way the federal government can legally stop Joe from performing his duty as sheriff?
crazy. the word illegal in illegal immigrant should give the boneheads in Washington a clue.
They are called illegal for a reason.
GO JOE!!!!!
Just doing the job American federal law enforcement is unwilling to do
...but Americans definitely want done!
I agree with everything you said so well.
I would add: Sheriffs everywhere should see Joe as a role model.
Sheriff Joe is awesome. He told the corrupt Feds to go to h*ll.
I have called his office to thank him for such a great job he is doing.
He is awesome.
If we had a few thousand more Sheriff Joes around, this would be a much better country.
There, all fixed!
Forget Dolly..clone Sheriff Joe.
Did you know he supported Napolitano when she ran for governor here?
Joe was reelected with 75% of the vote last time, year or two ago. I would love to have him here for his creative ideas, including taking over the animal shelters, saving them $15 million a year.
Go Joe!!!!
Joe, it’s a bit out of your Jurisdiction, but I hear tell there’s a possible illegal showing up at the Oval Office daily...
Why did he do that?
“Ariz. Sheriff Launches Immigration Sweep”
IN YOUR FACE OBAMA!
How long before Janet Jackboots Jr tries to burn him out?
Are there songs written about Sheriff Joe?
I recall a 40’s or 50’s song “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” which might be suitable for parodizing. More to follow- maybe...
I’m sure Maricopa isn’t on the “Tour Guides” those illegal non-citizen border crossers have.
The problem it that, in fact, it very much is on their list of places to go..
The Police Chief and Mayor of Phoenix have it as a “Sanctuary City”
Right now Phoenix is the Kidnap Capital of North and Central America.
Taking second place only to Bogata Columbia as Kidnap Capital of the Western hemisphere.
Phoenix proper arguably is the Narco and Human Trafficing Hub for the United States because of its location and the policies of the Mayor and Local Police Chief..
Phoenix is comprised of a bunch of smaller communities side by side. Many if not most of which use the Sheriffs Department for Law Enforcement.. So the Maricopa Sheriffs do a lot of City type patrolling duties.
There is one area just outside of Phoenix with multiple points of access that has become a dumping ground for dead bodies.. Illegals dying at Safe Houses, Hits between various drug and human trafficking organizations..
It’s been routine to find a body or two daily.
The people of the smaller communities don’t want the illegal criminals moving into their neighborhoods and the Sheriff is just responding to and doing his job to try and protect them. (Very unusual in this day and age of course)
Phoenix Proper really has become a cesspool. People dart in and out of it going only to specific well protected places. Other Parts right next door look just like the poorer areas in some of Mexico’s larger cities..
Phoenix is a cesspool not maintained seeping into the communities around it..
The Sheriff and his Deputies are really stuck trying to keep the crap away from the decent folks of the outlying communities.
While Pink Underwear and Green Baloney IMO is stupid..Bad PR... He has a really tough job that overall he and his Deputies do fairly well.. Not perfect.. but certainly better that what is being done in Phoenix Proper.
(no reflection on the Patrolmen who put up with a lot of crap because of their Department Policies and the Mayors need for the endorsement and support of the.
“International Association of Illegal Alien and Narco Traffickers Local 187”
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The history of communism, mostly doesn't "offer" "choice" in the matter.
Mass starvation, exposure through destitute living conditions, military/police use, they have even more choices they can make, all with the same results.
Hey it's easier to rob dead people. Just ask the preborn, & the elderly.
RAGTIME COWBOY JOE
Out in Ar-iz-o-na where the bad men are
And the on-ly friend to guide you is an Eve-’ning star
The rough-est, tough-est man by far is Rag-time Cow Boy Joe
Joe got his name from sing-ing to the cows and sheep
Ev’ry night they say he sings the herd to sleep
In a bass-o rich and deep croon-in’ soft and low.
CHORUS
He al-ways sings rag-gy mu-sic to the cat-tle
As he swings back and for-ward in the sad-dle
On a horse that is syn-co-pat-ed, gait-ed,
And there’s such a fun-ny me-ter to the roar of his re-peat-er
How they run when hear that fel-low’s gun
Because the West-ern folks all know
He’s a high-fa-lut-ing, scoot-ing, shoot-ing
Son-of-a-gun from ar-iz-o-na Rag-time Cow Boy Joe.
He dressed up ev’ry Sun-day in his Sun-day clothes
He beats it for the vil-lage where he al-ways goes
And ev’ry girl in town is Joe’s ‘cause he’s a rag-time bear.
When he starts a-spieling on the dance hall floor
No one but a lun-a-tic would start a war
Wise men know his fo-rty four makes men dance for fair.
...And that's how the war started.
Joe Arpaio is not the first sheriff to have stiffed the Feds by enforcing the law. In fact, Gary Penrod of San Bernardino County, CA, did something more radical, removed all law enforcement authority by Federal regulators, effectively throwing Federal LEOs out of his county.
That's right all you California bashers, we've got real conservatives here who don't deserve you even subconsciously abandoning them. There are too many FReepers here who get a large charge out of shooting their own rearguard.
I often wondered that myself.
Sheriff Joe is trying to protect his county from being over-run by foreign nationals. Those foreign nationals sap our local governments dry. They cause financial harm to local hospitals. They cause financial harm to our schools.
It is the President’s job to protect the states from invasion. It’s says so in Article IV Section IV of the U.S. Constitution. Obama swore to protect and defend that Constitution, and yet he rends it unenforceable by urging his Justice Department to go after Sheriff Joe.
Perhaps I have a faulty understanding of the Justice Department, but in matters such as Sheriff Joe’s enforcement of laws on the books concerning foreign nationals here against our nation’s laws, wouldn’t it have to be at the President’s request?
The President is clearly breaching his oath of office. He is facilitating a crime. As such isn’t he in violation of his oath of office, an accessory to crime, and therefore guilty of a misdemeanor.
Isn’t he impeachable for this?
Sheriff Joe = Fully within the law
President Obama = Fully outside the law on this matter
“I am the elected sheriff. I don’t take orders from the federal government.”
They let him get away with that? I’m amazed. Seriously, I would have thought they would put someone in jail for doing that. I don’t disagree that he should have the right, but I just can’t believe they let him do it. Good to hear that we have at least some LEO’s who stand up for the Constitution.
There are several kinds of courts, one obvious one is the legal court, the kind that might find Sheriff Joe guilty.
The other kind is the Court of Public Opinion. Over the years Sheriff Joes actions have caused this court to be stacked with judges (the general public) who wholeheartedly love the man and will find him innocent of all charges.
We’ll see, but I’ll wager that the Court of Public Opinion will trump the legal court. I say they’re scared to even give more than lip service to any threats.
Jorge called them Vigilantes, I hear.
No, really, Joe is only improving the US’ carbon foot print by kicking illegals out (sarc off)
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If there was any "dirt", it would have come out already. They'll have to make up so called "dirt", just like these commies in charge did to Rush.
Sheriff Joe is acting within legal means. It's the federal government whom is acting outside those means.
I trust the Sheriff KNOWS what he can and can't do, as AN ELECTED STATE OFFICIAL and what the fed CAN OR CAN'T CONTROL in his jurisdiction.
It’s not surprising , Arizona has laws against harboring or transporting illegal aliens, and the aliens themselves are conspirators, and Sheriff Joe said he will enforce ARIZONA law, and if the Feds won’t take the illegals in, he will drive them to the border himself. Nothing the Feds can do about that, unless they sue to prevent Arizona from enforcing Arizona law. That would be interesting.
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