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The actions of Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia at a protest last month against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are "under review" after top county officials were flooded with complaints. Garcia, who is active with the immigrant rights group Derechos Humanos, participated in a protest at a signing event at a Barnes & Noble bookstore promoting a book by Arpaio, who has a national reputation for anti-illegal-immigrant raids and tough jail conditions. Videos posted on YouTube show Garcia picking up the head of a piñata representing Arpaio after several teenagers smashed it, and carrying around the head. Photo:...

Sheriff Arpaio targets food vendors, undocumented immigrants Reported by: ABC15.com staff Last Update: 4:05 pm  Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the story Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies targeted non-permitted food vendors selling contaminated products in Maryvale.   Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the goal of Thursday's special enforcement operation was to stop vendors from selling foods not prepared or maintained in compliance with the federal health code, putting consumers at risk of food borne illnesses.   "These non-permitted food vendors are a serious health risk for anyone who buys their food products," said...

Tucson open-borders official gloats about effigy-beating By Michelle Malkin • July 16, 2008 12:45 PM [See Picture at link--Oyarsa] Tucscon residents remain up in arms over the unhinged open-borders mob, led by reconquistadora Pima County (AZ) public defender Isabel Garcia, who beat and tore apart an effigy of tough, anti-illegal immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his recent book tour event. See the videos here in case you missed it yesterday. Garcia is now gloating about the incident–calling it “funny.” She has posted a bigotry card-playing response at her militant website, Derechos Humanos. Laugh line: “We stand for the principles of...

Unhinged in Arizona: Open-borders mob, led by public official, ravages Joe Arpaio effigy By Michelle Malkin • July 15, 2008 03:34 PM Scroll down for updates…Jon Justice has more… Reader Tim C. in Tucscon sent me an e-mail about some completely unhinged open-borders activists who mobbed a book event for Sheriff Joe Arpaio. A group of young pro-illegal alien protesters repeatedly beats an effigy of Arpaio as Isabel Garcia–local reconquistadora and an official from the Pima County legal defender’s office–eggs them on. She then parades around with the effigy’s head as onlookers cheer and hoist up the rest of the...

On Thursday a protest against Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was held in front of a Tucson Barnes and Noble where he was holding a book signing. Arpaio is working with Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) to enforce immigration laws in his area, and, needless to say, those who support illegal immigration don't like that one bit. In front of the store, protesters savagely beat an effigy of Arpaio, severing it's head (video link). Then, Isabel Garcia of Derechos Humanos carried the severed head around (video link). Then, the protesters carried the body around (video link). See the writeup...

Sheriffs in Phoenix, Ariz., have launched an aggressive crackdown on illegal aliens as part of a growing movement by local officials to help prevent illegal immigration. Maricopa County sheriffs have instituted a zero tolerance policy — knocking on doors and arresting those suspected of living in the country illegally. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the law is clear cut. “Our policy is if we come across any illegal ... you are arrested. You don’t get a ticket. You get to appear before a judge later on.” In the wake of two unsuccessful attempts at passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill in...

Hands down, Joe Arpaio is the toughest sheriff in America. And although he is most well-known for his tough treatment of prisoners, Arpaio has over 30 years experience with different federal drug enforcement agencies, and, as the former head of border and drug enforcement in Texas and Arizona, he is one of the country’s leading experts on how to shut down illegal immigration and cross-border drug trafficking. His is a hard-core, no-frills approach to incarceration, with 10,000 Maricopa County, Ariz., prisoners held in old Army surplus tents, fed on bologna sandwiches, and clothed in black-and-white striped, old-style prison uniforms and...

Sheriff Arpaio conducted another crime suppression operation in Fountain Hills on Tuesday. A total of seven traffic stops and fourteen contacts were made throughout a seven-hour patrol period. This resulted in ten arrests, nine of them being of undocumented immigrants, and three felony warrants cleared.

PHOENIX – For some, Cinco de Mayo meant a chance to take a bat to the likeness of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Cinco de Mayo also represented a celebration for the opening of a new youth center near 13th Street and Van Buren in downtown Phoenix. Part of the celebration was beating two Sheriff Joe Arpaio piñatas, which was a part of a fundraiser. People bought tickets for a chance to take a swing at the sheriff. A lot of the people in attendance said they took the chance in fun because they are living in fear as the sheriff continues...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio still isn't saying when he will take his crime suppression patrols to Mesa. He says there's a reason for the delay -- he's giving illegal immigrants a chance to get out of town. ``I'm giving them a chance to pack up and leave, so when I do go in there, there may not be a big problem," he said. If an illegal immigrant needs a ride, Arpaio says, ``Call 602-876-1000 and we'll make arrangements. Maybe we'll even pick them up." Mesa Police Chief George Gascon has asked the sheriff for two days notice before he...

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Who’s in Charge? : Core duties of County Sheriff’s Office should be more clearly defined Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute Daily Email, April 02, 2008 Did the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office recent use of Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) funds to send staff members to Honduras violate the law-enforcement purposes to which such funds are limited? Did the sheriff’s highly publicized “saturation patrols”—comprised of nearly 200 deputies and “posse” members—trespass the jurisdiction of the Phoenix Police Department? The feud between the Sheriff’s Office and local police departments, bereft of coordination or agreement over priorities, threatens to devolve into law...

PHOENIX -- Hispanic leaders are calling for an immediate end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's illegal immigrants' patrols, claiming they are dividing the community and could lead to violence. "As a community, we see him going out setting up his troops and stopping people at random -- racial profiling," said Hector Yturralde, president of We Are America. "After they find out they can't speak English or they have no identification, then they stop them for immigration." Yturralde added, "He is causing a division within this community that is not good. And that is not his job." He said the sheriff is...

On Friday evening illegal aliens and their supporters were out in force, protesting Sheriff Arpaio and his posse in Phoenix. They were countered by a STRONG group of Phoenix patriots, including Minutemen, some of them armed. They, of course, were well within their rights, AZ having an open carry law. As time went by, tempers flared, the event became HEATED, and some 30 got arrested from the "immigrant rights" group, and one American patriot, who decided to go to the event with a loaded shotgun ...

This is an interview between Darrell Ankarlo of Phoenix radio station KTAR and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, March 28. The Sheriff's Office recently has been patrolling areas of Phoenix to assist business owners who have been affected by illegal aliens loitering in the area. The illegals and their supporters staged a protest against the patrols on Thursday, March 27. The podcast containing the interview is available here (10 megabyte MP3 file).

APRIL 5TH 2008 9:00AM IN FRONT OF THE BUFFALO CHIP SALOON (6811 East Cave Creek Road) CAVE CREEK, ARIZONA SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO WILL BE APPEARING IN THE CAVE CREEK PARADE AND WE REQUEST YOUR PRESENCE, SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR HIS EFFORTS TO CLEAN UP NOT ONLY THE TOWN OF CAVE CREEK BUT ALL OF MARICOPA COUNTY. PLEASE JOIN WITH UNITED FOR SOVEREIGN AMERICA AND NUMEROUS OTHER SUPPORTERS IN THANKING SHERIFF JOE BY SHOWING HIM OUR SUPPORT !!! BRING YOUR SIGNS AND AMERICAN FLAGS!!!

On Friday, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crime suppression operation ended earlier than normal after a passionate display by both supporters and protestors got tense. Two people were arrested. A Hispanic man was charged with disorderly conduct. Also charged was a white man who showed up to the demonstration with a loaded shotgun. Chants, music, and swearing quickly escalated into intense stand-offs. At one point a fight nearly broke out with both sides alleging that the other side was throwing water bottles and trash across a row of barricades that separated them. Protest organizers were so worried for the safety of the...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in an abortion case on Monday. The issue at the center of the case was whether deputies should be required to transport female jail inmates for elective abortions. The high court upheld an Arizona Court ruling that said refusing the transport violates the inmates' constitutional rights.

Hispanic leaders are speaking out about the sheriff's posse which goes on patrol today for what Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls "a crime suppression effort." Immigrant rights activists are angry over what they call the sheriff's abuse of power. The posse will saturate a day labor center near 25th Street and Bell Road and 36th Street and Thomas where immigrant rights activists held many protests last fall. The areas are known to have a high concentration of illegal immigrants. "We all recognize the immigration laws of this country are broken and nobody more than us wants to see those laws changed...

How the heck could we get this guy to run for President? SERIOUSLY! Maricopa County, Arizona was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe didn’t take over the county animal shelter, he started his own. The jail, which once housed inmates, was empty after the tent cities were built. Now the facility has become an animal shelter, housing 200 dogs and cats. The horses, which “do not fit in the cells,” are kept in the tents with the inmates. Sheriff Joe noted, “The women prisoners take care of the cats and...

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Date: January 10, 2008 BROKEN BORDERS … BROKEN JUSTICE SHERIFF STEPS IN WHERE THE COURTS HAVE FAILED ARPAIO BANS JAILED ILLEGALS FROM WORK PROGRAMS (Phoenix, AZ) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he is instituting a new jail policy aimed at fighting the illegal immigration problem which plagues not only the community at large but also the Sheriff's jail system. The Sheriff is now suspending work release programs ordered by the courts which have allowed convicted illegal aliens to be released from jail during their work hours in order to go to jobs that they are prohibited by law from...

The Daily Courier/Matt Hinshaw Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks during the Yavapai Republican Men’s Forum Monday afternoon at Hotel St. Michael in Prescott. Arpaio was the guest speaker at the forum. PRESCOTT - "I'm one politician who knows where the border is," commented Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as he spoke at the Yavapai Republican Men's Forum at the Hotel St. Michael in Prescott Monday. Arpaio was here to talk about the new immigration law that went into effect on Jan. 1. "We have a new employer sanction law to address the illegal immigration problem," he said. "I am...

Convicted drink drivers are being forced to wear pink shirts and form a chain gang to perform public burials of people who died of alcohol abuse. The punishment is the brainchild of an Arizona sheriff known for unorthodox practices such as housing inmates in old military tents and issuing prisoners with pink underwear. Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County and once dubbed "America's toughest sheriff", says he sees the chain gang as a deterrent to potential drink drivers. "Maybe this will warn people - knock it off, don't drink and drive," Mr Arpaio said. "You'll end up in pink...

MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Eight illegal immigrants were arrested during a protest outside of a Phoenix furniture store that had hired sheriff's deputies to keep day laborers away. Protesters have been demonstrating for the past six Saturdays at Pruitt's furniture store in east Phoenix against the arrests of illegal immigrants in the area. Maricopa County sheriff's deputies had arrested 24 illegal immigrants in the area after stopping them for traffic violations. The eight people arrested yesterday on suspicion of violating immigration laws were the first illegal immigrants taken into custody during the actual protests. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the protesters...

Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies arrested eight illegal immigrants on Saturday during a protest outside a Phoenix furniture store embroiled in a heated immigration debate. Immigration activists have gathered on Saturdays for the past six weeks outside Pruitt’s furniture store to challenge Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s enforcement of immigration laws. Saturday was the first time deputies made arrests during the rallies. The day laborers were arrested on suspicion of violating immigration laws. Deputies had arrested 24 illegal immigrants in the area before Saturday, but those arrests were not made during protests. “I thought it was time to do something more about it,”...

A group has pledged to spend about $1,000 to gather hundreds of thousands of signatures in an effort to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas. The Arizonans for the U.S. Constitution and Recall of Joe Arpaio, filed paperwork Oct. 29 to recall the county's top law enforcement officials, according to county records. According the documents, the group has pledged to spend less than $500 on each of the two recalls - a small amount money considering size of the task. The organization will have to collect 283,300 valid signatures from registered voters in Maricopa County...

Increasingly, two of the Valley’s law-enforcement heavyweights have been facing off over the hotly political issue of illegal immigration. In one corner is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office created a special squad to arrest people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. In the opposite corner is Mesa police Chief George Gascón, who says Arpaio’s special squad actually may be putting the safety of Valley residents and officers in jeopardy by spending valuable resources on small crimes rather than large ones. The issue reached its highest pitch yet this week after the sheriff’s squad went into Mesa and...

A Valley immigrants rights activist headed to Washington, D.C., today to meet with the Hispanic Caucus and talk about the relationship between Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. ``We hope that this will start what ends up in actually an overview of the operations between Sheriff Arpaio and ICE," said Salvador Reza, who runs a north Phoenix day labor center. ``Up until today, Sheriff arpaio has been arresting day laborers, journalists, a lot of vendors, but he has over 70,000 warrants that he has not taken care of," Reza said. He said some of those...

Most of the chain e-mails I receive, I delete. Occasionally I read one that appears to be humorous or interesting. My mother sent me one titled SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN. This e-mail, while not humorous, is definitely interesting. The chain e-mail is about Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the operation he runs in Maricopa County, Ariz. The e-mail says the inmates live in tent cities, there are female chain gangs and inmates eat brown-bag lunches. I had received Sheriff Joe e-mails before, as had my husband, and we always dismissed them as urban legend, amazing, entertaining, but certainly not...

Arpaio says there's no excuse and it's a "cop-out Sheriff Joe Arpaio says if he can enforce the state's immigration law, other law enforcement agencies should be able to as well. Arpaio says his office enforces all the laws, and his office is doing it with a smaller staff compared to some police agencies. The Sheriff says he doesn't go around complaining he doesn't have enough resources. He says his office manages resources properly. Also, Arpaio says the excuse of not going after misdemeanors doesn't work. He says 62% of the people in his jails are misdemeanors.

PHOENIX -- Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio denied reports that an informant about a death plot against him had been discredited and said the investigation into the threat remained open. Arpaio spoke on the "Jay Lawrence Show" on FM NewsTalk 92-3 about the informant's claims that the Minutemen were going to pay $3 million to have the sheriff killed by a Mexican drug cartel to inflame the already-hot illegal immigration issue. While almost all of the information provided by the informant turned out to be bogus, Arpaio said the informant knew some details about his life. "How would he know...

The prisoner claims that wearing pink places him in peril and is discriminatory.

Three high-ranking Mexican police officers were arrested over the weekend after for after they reportedly bought weapons at a gun show in Phoenix in violation of a law barring non-citizens from purchasing firearms, a federal official said Wednesday. The three include the director of the Baja California state police and a commander of the federal police in Baja California, said Tom Mangan, a spokesman with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix. The three had crossed the border at Calexico, Calif., in an official police vehicle and driven to Phoenix. They were arrested by Phoenix police...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a message for critics behind a doctored photo that shows him in a Ku Klux Klan outfit holding a noose around a Hispanic man: "you're not going to get rid of me." "The more they complain, the more I'm going to enforce the law," Arpaio told FOXNews.com.

Four teenaged illegal immigrants went to a hospital with blistered feet, and four adults are in jail after Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies caught them speeding through the East Valley this morning,Cpt. Paul Chagolla said. Chagolla said sheriff’s deputies stopped a late model Ford Explorer on Interstate 10 near Queen Creek Road on suspicion speeding and found 13 people inside. Deputies said five occupants of the vehicle fled the scene near Firebird International Raceway south of Chandler, but deputies apprehended eight others. The four adults were put in custody, but the juveniles were taken to a hospital because their feet...

Sheriff to Bar Illegals from Visiting County Jail Inmates July 27th, 2007 @ 6:49am by Bob McClay/KTAR The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is developing system designed to keep illegal immigrants from visiting county jail inmates. Sheriff's deputies would do background checks on every one who comes for a jail visit. "We will be looking at some type of procedure where we identify illegals coming into the jail. They won't be able to come in." When someone comes to the jail to visit an inmate, they're required to show ID. Arpaio says the background check will be completed before their next...

PHOENIX - Latino leaders and faith-based organizations want Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to disconnect the hotline he created for people to report information about undocumented immigrants, saying it raises the chance of racial profiling. But Arpaio said Wednesday that he won't disconnect the hotline and stressed that deputies would investigate people only if authorities had probable cause. The hotline began last Friday and has received about 300 messages, which include tips about family and friends, employment, day laborers, drop houses and crank calls. Arpaio said officials are analyzing the tips and officials have not acted on any of the...

A “concentrated crackdown” on illegal immigrants started Friday night in Maricopa County. Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced he’s dispatched more than 200 deputies and posse members to saturate valley cities and roadways known to be corridors for human smuggling. East Valley hot spots include Bush Highway, U.S. Highway 60 and “any major highway,” said deputy chief Brian Sands. Arpaio said he’s also opening a hotline for tipsters to report suspected illegal immigrants. Arpaio said the program is comprehensive and controversial, but that it’s constitutional. “We’re not going to go out on a street corner and round up people because they look...

Boston, MA - Governor Mitt Romney today announced that Arizona State Representative Rich Crandall has endorsed his campaign for President of the United States. Representative Crandall will help Governor Romney in his campaign for our nation's highest office. "Every week we are gaining more support in Arizona, and I am very proud to welcome Representative Crandall to our team," Governor Romney said. "He will play a critical role in our grassroots effort and will help communicate the need for real, conservative change in Washington. Representative Crandall said, "Governor Romney succeeded in the private sector. He succeeded in turning around the...

PARIS Hilton could be forced to join a "chain gang" because overcrowding in Los Angeles jails mean the hotel heiress might not be able to serve her 45-day sentence in prison. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in charge of the US's only "all-female chain gang", says he's spoken to the chief of jails in Los Angeles and offered to house Hilton at Tent City in Arizona. "I just made an offer," Sheriff Arpaio told the Drudge Report. "Instead of reducing for her sentence, which I feel is wrong, why not bring her over here? We can incarcerate her here. She...

Inside America's toughest jail  Grim ... Tent City in ArizonaPictures: MARK PETERMAN       From HARRY MACADAM in ArizonaApril 28, 2007           HIGH above the Arizona desert, a pink neon sign flashes the word “vacancy” from a watch tower manned by armed guards.  Surrounded by 25ft barbed wire fences, this is the welcome offered by America’s toughest jail — Tent City in Phoenix.Inside, nearly 1,000 prisoners live in army surplus tents, baking in temperatures of 122°F (50°C) in summer and freezing during winter.No matter how many criminals are locked up here, the vacancy sign is never...

PHOENIX -- The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has launched a preliminary inquiry into possible corruption in the $1.4 billion light-rail construction project now under way in metropolitan Phoenix. ---snip--- The first 20 miles of the light-rail project through Mesa, Tempe and Phoenix is expected to open in December, 2008.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said on Wednesday he is close to striking an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow some of his officers to enforce federal immigration laws. Arpaio told the Tribune of his future plans the same day a group of activists announced they had filed a federal classaction lawsuit against Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas accusing them of wrongfully using the state’s anti-smuggling law to enforce immigration. In recent months, Arpaio and ICE representatives have been meeting to negotiate the conditions of an agreement. Arpaio said he wants about 200 of his deputy...

PHOENIX — An Arizona sheriff known for his tough jail policies is offering basic English classes to inmates who don't speak the language. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the language barrier has caused problems for his jail officers and even prompted complaints from English-speaking prisoners. "They are in the United States, and they should start speaking English," said Arpaio, who is known for making inmates wear pink underwear and take part in old-style chain gangs in striped uniforms. Arpaio said the inmates are so eager to learn English that there's a waiting list for the two-week courses, which began...

A man was arrested in Canada on suspicion of threatening the sheriff of Arizona's most populous county and his family, authorities said. Canadian authorities took Matthew Carl Sanderson, 37, into custody Friday although he since has been released. A spokeswoman for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said detectives were going to sift through Sanderson's computer and other evidence obtained in a search of his Toronto home to determine his motive, what charges to bring and whether he should be extradited to Arizona or prosecuted in Canada. The threat came in an e-mail June 2 through the sheriff's Web site, said...

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT GIVES INSTRUCTIONS, AND MONEY TO ILLEGALS AS THEY ENTER THE US Randy L. Harrington Randy L. Harrington July 7, 2006 PHOENIX—Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that his deputies have not made one illegal alien arrest in two weeks. The Mexican Consulate is briefing illegal aliens, and providing them with US cash, and intelligence data designed to defeat Sheriff Arpaio's efforts to combat illegal immigration. Salvadore Enriquez is an illegal alien who arrived in Chandler, Arizona two weeks ago. He has been working steadily from a street corner in Chandler doing day labor jobs. Enriquez said that in...

Sherriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona is now playing National Anthem and God Bless America played for the entire jail facitily. The inmates are also wearing pink underwear to prevent theft, but eating high on the hog with a balogna brunh and hot meal in the evening. All meals cost the inmates 14 cents a piece.I wish he was running Harris County Texas.....

Citizens group confronts sheriff on immigrants 'Copwatch' calls for sheriff to release immigrants from jail Friday, June 16, 2006 Members of a citizens group known as Copwatch protested outside Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office Friday morning. They held signs asking Arpaio to release illegal immigrants that his deputies and volunteer posse members have arrested. The arrests came under a state law making it illegal to conspire to smuggle humans into Arizona, or to conspire to be smuggled. Arpaio came down from his 19th floor office in the Wells Fargo Building to let the members of Copwatch present their complaints in person....

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants 11 more large tents to house an influx of illegal immigrants. Tent City One is outside the nearby Estrella Jail in southwest Phoenix. There are 2,000 inmates in the two tent facilities and about 10,000 inmates in all of the county's jails. In August, state legislators passed an anti-human smuggling statute giving prosecutors a tool to go after smugglers. County Attorney Andrew Thomas later issued an opinion saying illegal immigrants suspected of paying coyotes could be prosecuted as conspirators. "The law is clear and I intend to enforce it," Arpaio said. "But we're going...