Posted on 11/02/2018 5:05:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A political ad from President Donald Trump that shows a Mexican immigrant bragging about killing police officers has put the spotlight back on noted immigration hard-liner Joe Arpaio, who detained and released the man in the video years ago.
The former six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix says he’s being unfairly blamed for releasing the immigrant depicted in the video that has stoked immigration anxieties in the days leading up to the midterm elections.
The ad centers on Luis Bracamontes, who was convicted of murder in the 2014 shooting deaths of two sheriff’s deputies in California while he was in the United States illegally. Trump blames Democrats for weak laws that allowed the man to keep coming across the border, even though he was deported during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Bracamontes was also incarcerated four times in jails run by Arpaio, a Republican who is known for his crackdowns on illegal immigration and being the first person to receive a pardon from Trump. He campaigned for Trump on several occasions during the presidential campaign but lost his bid for a seventh term in 2016 amid a swirl of legal troubles.
Arpaio said Friday that he hasn’t seen the ad and didn’t remember the details of the cases.
But he said his jail officers likely acted properly by contacting federal immigration authorities to pick up Bracamontes, because that was the procedure in the jails at the time when inmates completed their sentences. He pinned the blame on federal immigration authorities for dropping the ball.
“I would never release an illegal,” Arpaio said. “I think my reputation has shown show that for many, many, many years.” …
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Fake news is one of Americas biggest enemies.
AP they all look the same excuse ?
The truth is that the court systems demanded the release of a lot of these illegal alien criminals.
Correct, and AP admitted that it wasn’t Arpaio doing the releasing deeper into the article, exposing their own lie.
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