Posted on 08/10/2010 7:07:22 AM PDT by I_Publius
Let’s not EVER forget the two border patrol agents that Johnny Sutton went after. LE has become the latest target of the leftist tools of our leftist government.
Things are turning bad pretty quickly.....
.....with the government on the side of those who break federal law and against those enforcing those same laws.
Simply unbelievable.
U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez warned attorneys for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in Arizona, in a letter dated August 3, that unless Arpaio voluntarily cooperates by August 17 with an investigation by the Justice Department's civil rights division into allegations... the Perez letter continued, on May 29, 2009, "counsel informed DOJ in writing that MCSO would 'not respond to any document requests from DOJ...until appropriate assurances are made' that DOJ was not improperly coordinating its investigation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." ...Sheriff Arpaio held a press conference on July 7, 2009, at which he said, "MCSO would not cooperate with the Division's investigation, would not produce additional documents, and would not provide any access to MCSO facilities or personnel." ...attorney Robert Driscoll... described the Justice Department's threat to sue the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office as premature... also claimed that Arpaio had previously handed over thousands of documents in a lawsuit involving allegations that Arpaio's deputies had racially profiled Hispanics, and that arguments contained in the Perez letter "conflated the legal boundaries between two separate and ongoing investigations."
The Feds are making it clear that they will try to make it difficult for any law enforcement official to actually enforce immigration laws, and they will use every weapon in their arsenal to do it. I hope they fail.
Not tough at all.
It'll never happen. Romley is a RINO. He was appointed to the job, not elected. He is running for election in 2010. He will not be getting my vote.
This is what happens when government is saturated with attorneys. Attorneys are trained to look for the loophole to get them around legal precedence and the laws, themselves. Sheriff Arpaio is an ELECTED official. He has the support of his constituency. He should tell them to go to hell and dare them to attempt to remove him. He has the spine to face down the whole of the Obama administration.
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