Posted on 02/10/2010 1:06:47 PM PST by pissant
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is doubling down on his defiance of the Feds.
In November, the Department of Homeland Security stripped 100 Maricopa County deputies of their ability to make immigration arrests, amid a slew of complaints that the controversial sheriff was using racial profiling techniques to round up suspected illegal immigrants.
But now, in what can only be described as a giant F.U. to the U.S. government, Sheriff Joe has announced that he'll train all 881 of his deputies to enforce federal immigration law, reports the AP.
Arpaio said that, per federal law, his office doesn't need sign-off from Washington to enforce immigration laws.
All this comes as a federal grand jury probe into Arpaio's office appears to be heating up. The Justice Department investigation initially was focused on the racial profiling allegations against Arpaio's office. But it appears to have widened to consider whether the sheriff used his position to launch politically motivated investigations against county officials, judges, and others with whom he had clashed.
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Go Joe. Thank you from one of your constituents.
A real American HERO. Go Joe Go!!
Exactly.
I love this man. A hero among weasels.
your screen name makes me laugh every time i see it.
“But now, in what can only be described as a giant F.U. to the U.S. government, Sheriff Joe has announced that he’ll train all 881 of his deputies to enforce federal immigration law, reports the AP.”
R O T F L M F A O
Please thank him for me, too, from southern Delaware.
Joe for president.
The Obamaloon for dogcatcher. (Very slow dogs only.)
By him a case of Shiner for me. I’ll reimburse you
“”[I]t’s time to replace [McCain’s] moderate or even liberal positions on taxes, the border, social causes and big bank bailouts with a consistent conservative like J.D.,” Arpaio wrote in the letter. “I just wish Senator McCain had run as hard against Barack Obama as he is against a conservative like J.D.””
Go Joe!!
“But now, in what can only be described as a giant F.U. to the U.S. government, Sheriff Joe has announced that he’ll train all 881 of his deputies to enforce federal immigration law, reports the AP.”
Well if the feds won’t enforce federal law, who will?
The eventual standoff that will inevitably happen may end up being a watershed moment like a modern day Alamo at best, a grim reality like Waco......
Go Joe Go!
Racial profiling? Illegal mexicans? Duh
will do. gonna by the pink underwear that benefits the volunteer posse for my boys. :)
call me clueless, what’s “Shiner”?
Shiner. Oops that’s texas beer. Sorry for the insult. LOL
“... 55,322 criminal aliens were arrested a total of at least 459,614 times, averaging over eight arrests per alien. The Department of Justice expressed its surprise at the ‘extremely high’ rate of re-arrests for criminal aliens when it found that that 73 criminal aliens in a study group were arrested a total of 429 times.”
...quoting a Government Accounting Office (GAO) study.
Reflect on those numbers for just a minute.
This GAO study is only counting the number of arrests! And that should bring two questions immediately to mind:
How many actual crimes did these 55,322 criminal aliens actually commit?
How is it even conceivable that each of these illegal aliens could be arrested on average a total of almost nine times?
To at least partially answer the second question, you only need to look at so-called “sanctuary cities.”
Sanctuary cities are localities across the United States where liberal mayors and local legislators have instituted policies that prohibit law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration agents and prohibit them from even questioning the immigration status of anyone they arrest.
But to add more insult to injury, many American cities even allow illegal aliens to obtain free health care, food stamps and a whole assortment of government goodies without having their immigration status questioned.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05646r.pdf
ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM, Joe!!!
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