Posted on 04/26/2008 10:34:35 AM PDT by John Jorsett
GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) - The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff in America" has been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities' mayors and other community leaders.
While Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has legal authority to enforce the law in cities within his county, politicians and activists are accusing him of grandstanding and, worse, racial profiling.
A total of 150 people—73 of them illegal immigrants—were arrested by Arpaio's deputies in the raids on heavily Hispanic sections in late March and early April.
"I was upset. We did not request them here," said Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez, who charged that the patrols were meant to raise Arpaio's profile for his re-election campaign this year.
Guadalupe, a community of about 6,000 people that relies on the sheriff's office for police protection, is taking steps to find another department to patrol its streets.
As for Phoenix, Mayor Phil Gordon said Arpaio should be concentrating on more pressing duties such as finding people with warrants against them, and he has asked for a federal civil rights investigation, complaining the sheriff is singling out people who are "driving with a broken taillight or have brown skin." The U.S. Justice Department refused to comment.
And in Mesa, Arizona's third-largest city, the police chief has requested two days' notice of any sweeps Arpaio might conduct there, so that his officers can be prepared for any unrest.
Arpaio has long had a reputation for in-your-face tactics. He is known for making jail inmates wear pink underwear, assigning them to old- style chain gangs, and serving them green bologna sandwiches.
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Sheriff Joe Ping!
Joe should, instead, replace McCain as the final candidate for POTUS on the Republican side.
He is way to conservative to be elected in the general election.
Given McCain's age and health issues, I might just be persuaded to vote Republican if the right VP is on the ticket.
Yep. The local mayors won’t let their own police do the job and whine when the heriff steps in to do what they won’t do. These turds giving Sheriff Joe law enforcement advice is like Jimmy Carter giving Ronald Reagan foreign policy advice!
Are 15% of the people in Phoenix newspaper writers, thugs and queers?
Joe isn’t the only sheriff doing his job. We have a sheriff in Ohio doing his job also.
The rest of her quote is "I was upset. We did not request them here to enforce laws against illegals and upset my constituency."
The bulk of Guadalupe is Hispanic. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that at least half the population is legal. Jeff lives nearby, he may know the numbers...
ESE JEFE SHERIFF JOE ES UN GRAN HOMBRE....
ayeeeeee caramba...!
Yes, I saw that. It’s hilarious she’s looking for another agency to patrol the town, even if they find one the Sheriff can still send his deputies in there to enforce the law. :-)
I like a lot of the Sheriff’s qualities myself, but the President and Vice-President can’t be residents of the same state (because of the 12th Amendment’s “inhabitant” clause).
And how is Obama not too leftist to be elected in the general election?
Races in Guadalupe: Races in Guadalupe: Hispanic (72.3%) American Indian (48.5%) Other race (31.2%) Two or more races (5.7%) White Non-Hispanic (1.5%) Black (1.1%) (Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
I’m not quite seeing the downside in the examples. The chick needs to suck it up and anyone named “Ochoa” needs to keep his head down——that surname “Ochoa” is connected to hoodlums all the way thru South America. Nothing personal-—he’s just got a tough name to deal with and it’s not Sheriff Joe’s problem.
What will they say when the crime and unemployment rates go down?
WELL the only thing i say is that...its mighty bad when law enforcement agencies in this country begin to arrest and deport illegal aliens who are bankrupting our way of life..
im saddened...
AND deeply troubled..
god knows, we need these folks ever last hombre of ‘em
....and another thing
the rumor that they are sort of mostly illiterate even in their own language and that a passel of ‘em along with their progeny will stay on the US welfare roles for generations to come may be true but i think, it is, at one and the same time .... NASSSTEEEE.
THIMK about it....
since when is it so bad IF a nation as rich and as powerful as the USA bankrupts itself in the service of a cause such as saving another country’s citizenry?...
i think we need to step back, take a deep breath and decide which is worse....giving up our way of life or bein considered dirty birds in the eyes of the world’s TOP third world countries....
listen here you to me gringos ....the eyes of Darfur and Bangla Desh are upon us!...and i hate to tell you this ladies and gemmens but, so far they don’t like what they see..!
i for one do not want to be found wanting in judgement of these moral world giants....
please then, join with me..
dig down, empty your kids’ college savings accounts and send in ALL the dough we need to make these, our visitors feel wanted, needed, funded and well......... warmy..for AS LONG AS THEY LIKE or for generations to come..whichever comes first.
IN CLOSING, clearly, it is your job to send money to a WONDERFUL foundation i’ve created for just this purpose....send your contributionS in cash only to:
THE HECK WITH Us~~~~THEM OTHER PEOPLE R FIRST
1000 STUPID WAY
WASHINGTON D.C.
you’ll feel better when you do.
I thank you very much for your time.
You’ve got to be kidding?
McLame will probably get a clown like Mel Martinez for his attorney general.
An amnesty loving p.o.s. just like McLame himself.
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