‘Banner Week’ in Sheriff Joe’s Battle Against Illegal Immigration (54 Illegals Netted)

Stand With Arizona ^ | 03-23-2012 | John Hill

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by John Hill
Stand With Arizona

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has all but shut down its workplace enforcement activities since Obama took office. Even with the longest sustained bout of high unemployment since the Great Depression, Obama's ICE has slashed workplace enforcement against illegals by a stunning 70 percent.

ICE claims they are leaving illegal workers alone to steal jobs in order to have a "sustained focus on criminal offenders". But as we pointed out on Wednesday, ICE has failed with criminals as well, highlighted by their release of a serial child rapist - with 42 counts - who remains at large.

But at least there is one official who is still actively removing illegal aliens from our society: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And Arpaio and his deputies have had a banner week, capturing 54 illegal aliens in 3 separate raids over a 72-hour period.

The arrests came from human smuggling operations and employer sanctions investigations as well as an animal cruelty case involving cockfighting. All the illegals were booked into the Maricopa County Jail.

In the human smuggling case, deputies yesterday arrested six illegal aliens who were being smuggled from Mexico, and headed to California, Colorado and Phoenix. All were Mexican nationals.

In the employer sanction case, deputies arrested 31 of employees working at 21st Century Laboratories in Tempe, Arizona and booked them on charges of identification theft, a class four felony. It was the 58th employer sanctions case conducted by Arpaio’s deputies and resulted in one of the largest number of employee arrests to date. All arrested were illegal aliens.

In the previous 57 employer sanctions/identity theft operations, 100% of all suspects found to be committing identity theft to gain employment were illegal aliens. The Maricopa County Sheriff ’s office has investigated, arrested on the streets and in the jails over 51,000 illegal aliens.

Also this week, a large inner city cock fighting ring was busted by Sheriff’s deputies and 31 suspects, 17 of whom were later determined to be illegal aliens, were taken into custody.

Few Americans know just how much of the dirty work of the nation’s immigration enforcement is completed by Arpaio and his deputies each year - more than even in the face of the Obama retreat. Arpaio’s office – in a single county – apprehends a staggering 25% of all criminal illegal aliens in the entire United States every year.

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Sheriff Joe has done more to stop human trafficing than Holder ever did.

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Thank you, Sheriff Joe!

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Scores of mostly college and high school students marched in downtown Phoenix Friday afternoon to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his continued crackdown on illegal immigrants.

It’s not over yet...http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/03/23/20120323arpaio-protest-immigration-policies-abrk.html