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Sheriff's deputies assigned to find, arrest illegal immigrants (Maricopa County, AZ)
KVOA Tucson Channel 4 News (AP Story) ^

Posted on 05/03/2006 9:18:06 PM PDT by SandRat

Illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert in will have to worry about being apprehended by one more law enforcement agency.

A posse of 100 volunteers and deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will be assigned to patrol the desert and main roadways in the southwest area of the county and arrest illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said in a news release.

The effort is an attempt to slow the tide of illegal immigrants into the county, Arizona's most populous, according to the release.

"There are so many illegals trying to make it into the county that it's overwhelming my deputies," Arpaio said.

The sheriff's office began arresting illegal immigrants in March under a new state smuggling law. Under the law, as interpreted by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, illegal immigrants can be arrested and prosecuted for conspiracy to smuggle themselves into the country.

Arpaio's deputies have arrested some 120 illegal immigrants under the law, which has yet to be tested in court.

The law's authors have said they intended it to be used to prosecute smugglers, not the immigrants being smuggled.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; aliens; arpaio; arrest; assigned; bordersecurity; deputies; find; hatecrime; hategroups; illegal; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; immigrants; invasionusa; openborders; policeofstate; sheriff
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Sheriff Joe was also interviewed on FOX by Bill O'. Bill O' appeared scared of Sheriff Joe.
1 posted on 05/03/2006 9:18:10 PM PDT by SandRat
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To: HiJinx; Spiff; Borax Queen; idratherbepainting; AZHSer; Sabertooth; Marine Inspector; A Navy Vet; ..

Now if Cochise County's Sheriff Deaver would get with the program of Sheriff Joe.


2 posted on 05/03/2006 9:19:11 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Sheriff Joe: "Alright, deputies. We got laws need enforcin'. Go enforce them."


3 posted on 05/03/2006 9:21:23 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: SandRat
Go get Sheriff Joe Arpaio


4 posted on 05/03/2006 9:23:59 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: SandRat

I wish one individual in Congress had the guts of Sherrif Joe. He was talking about gettin' some possies together. I always wanted to join a possie. Hmmmm......


5 posted on 05/03/2006 9:24:05 PM PDT by takeemout (God Bless Jesse Helms!)
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To: demlosers
Go get = Go get'm

Errrr...

6 posted on 05/03/2006 9:24:46 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: SandRat
"The law's authors have said they intended it to be used to prosecute smugglers, not the immigrants being smuggled"

The AP admits that these people are being smuggled into our country, but in the same sentence they still call them "immigrants". Note to the AP, immigrants aren't smuggled into the U.S., they enter legally. With outright lies such as calling the invaders "immigrants", the liberal media are complicit in the invasion. The enemy within.

7 posted on 05/03/2006 9:25:11 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: SandRat
The important question is how our beloved governor will halt his actions....
8 posted on 05/03/2006 9:28:01 PM PDT by KeepArizonaFree (Say no to McStain in 2008!)
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To: SandRat
I am not a big fan of Joe, but he got this one right.

I am not hopeful Yuma County Sheriff Ogden would ever consider anything like this, he never met a Federal Dollar he didn't like, he isn't going to do any thing that could put his Federal grants in jepardy.

9 posted on 05/03/2006 9:33:10 PM PDT by c-b 1
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To: HiJinx; Spiff; Borax Queen; idratherbepainting; AZHSer; Sabertooth; Marine Inspector; A Navy Vet; ..
and from KOLD Channel 13 a CBS affiliate

Reaction to decision to send posse after illegal immigrants

PHOENIX Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's decision to send deputies and volunteers out looking for illegal immigrants is drawing strong criticism from some in the Hispanic community.

The sheriff says it's an attempt to slow the tide of illegal immigrants into the county.

Former state senator and Hispanic community leader Alfredo Gutierrez says "Every act like this contributes to the angst and anger and desperation" in the community.

Gutierrez says arresting illegal immigrants under the smuggling law is a violation of human rights.

The sheriff's office will draw from existing deputies and members of its three-thousand-member posse reserve.

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On the Net:

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office:
http://www.mcso.org

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas:
http://www.maricopacountyattorney.org/

Arizona Legislature:
http://www.azleg.gov/

10 posted on 05/03/2006 9:40:07 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Saw this on Fox today. O'Reilly was less than enthusiastic, which is really a good thing. Joe's my man. He's got the law and the facts on his side. He'll win everytime.


11 posted on 05/03/2006 9:43:04 PM PDT by 1lawlady (To G-d be the glory. Great things He has done!)
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Yeah...Orile started off like he was going to try to corner Arpaio but Arpaio had all the answers and O backed off in a hurry.lol


12 posted on 05/03/2006 9:44:58 PM PDT by jazusamo (-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still reenlisting. :-)
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I thought and so did Mrs. SR that Bill O' behaved like he was afraid of Joe even with Joe on satellite remote from Phoenix.
13 posted on 05/03/2006 9:45:51 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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i've heard stories of corruption in Maricopa county, maybe he's doing this to try to take attention away from issues surrounding him.. that being said, why he's not doing it is not as important as the fact that someone is trying to do something about the illegal alien problem... I just wish Peanuts Gaines here in Warren Co. KY would use a similar approach..


14 posted on 05/03/2006 9:47:36 PM PDT by Schwaeky (Truth is not determined by a majority vote-- Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: Schwaeky

I haven't heard any corruption stuff about him but I know it's possible because he's been doing his thing there for quite a while. I know he doesn't take guff from anyone and especially prisoners.

I was surprised tonight when he came out on Oriles show and flat out said they were going to arrest illegals and if they run out of space, they'll put up more tents. That's my kind of Sheriff.


15 posted on 05/03/2006 9:53:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (-- Married a WAC in '65 and I'm still reenlisting. :-)
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To: TheCrusader
The AP admits that these people are being smuggled into our country, but in the same sentence they still call them "immigrants". Note to the AP, immigrants aren't smuggled into the U.S., they enter legally. With outright lies such as calling the invaders "immigrants", the liberal media are complicit in the invasion.

Tonight on a local Los Angeles TV station the reporter referred to them as "illegal citizens".

16 posted on 05/03/2006 9:56:09 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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"Tonight on a local Los Angeles TV station the reporter referred to them as "illegal citizens".

Liberal 'journalists' will call them anything they can think of, except for what they really are, illegal aliens.

17 posted on 05/03/2006 9:58:17 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: SandRat

Sheriff Joe for President. If he took over we'd be out of the sh--hole we're in. (from an ex-cop)


18 posted on 05/03/2006 9:59:05 PM PDT by pankot
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To: SandRat
Now that you mention it, that's what I saw in O'Reilly--naked fear. I believe Bill is afraid that despite all his Messianic pronouncements, i.e. "cuz we're looking out for you," he's just an empty talking suit. All his verbiage can't hold a candle to Joe's plainspoken, man of effective action persona.
19 posted on 05/03/2006 10:22:36 PM PDT by 1lawlady (To G-d be the glory. Great things He has done!)
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To: SandRat
Some people simply don't know how much stroke the Posse Comitatus (power to the county) Act of 1878 gives to a county sheriff, it is broad and far reaching.
20 posted on 05/03/2006 11:39:32 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
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