During the Bush administration, there were no complaints from Washington about Sheriff Arpaio’s sweeps and raids, which netted thousands of illegal aliens in his county, but scarcely had Barack Obama been elected and Janet Napolitano installed as DHS secretary, an investigation of Arpaio began.
His many enemies in immigrant rights and Hispanic rights groups charge him with racism. Picketing and shouts of “racist” and “KKK” and “Nazi” are common.
The Justice Department under Eric Holder is investigating Arpaio’s office on allegations of “racial profiling, discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.”
When asked what had changed between the two administrations, Arpaio said, “Politics has changed, because they don’t like us going on the streets to catch illegals.”
Not only are there thousands of illegals passing through Maricopa County weekly, but there are the ongoing crimes of identity theft, human smuggling, kidnapping for ransom, massive drug and weapon dealings and the street crime always accompanies such illegal activities.
He is doing exactly what needs to been done. If we as a nation don’t start doing this on a grand scale we are going to cease to exist.