Perceptive suggestion. I think you may be right.
Arizonans are too smart for that. I hope they run ICE out on a rail.
I think we need to all flood our Congress-critters’ mailboxes and phone lines with demands that either the employees at ICE be fired and replaced by people who will do what they’ve been employed to do, or else ICE should be defunded and those funds given directly to border states’ law enforcement for the expressed purpose of hiring people to deal with illegal immigration.
We cannot have law enforcement refusing to enforce the law, and we can’t have the feds picking and choosing which law enforcement entities they will accept criminal referrals from. It’s bad enough that judges get away with doing that in civil cases, but if we allow law enforcement to do it in criminal cases this nation is toast. The Congress-critters should be able to grasp that, and if they can’t then we need ot make sure they hear about it until they grasp it.
I don't think the Feds are going to back down on this if it's related to Arpaio's investigation of Obama's birth certificate, and it very well may be. Short of a National outcry (and even then, they'd revert to simply indicting him)I think they're going to squeeze his balls until he says uncle, or, more likely, squeeze the citizen's balls until they make him say uncle. I don't think I'm wrong in assuming that having the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice breathing down your neck, isn't fun, and I'm sure they can make your life a living hell. Whatever he did, he pissed off some important people.