Posted on 02/15/2009 3:34:34 PM PST by Baladas
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and three fellow Democrats want the Department of Justice to investigate civil rights complaints against controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The lawmakers, in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sent Friday, are seeking a probe into reports Arpaio has used skin color as a basis to search for illegal immigrants in Arizona.
Conyers and Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) want to end a federal agreement that allows the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to enforce immigration laws if the allegations turn out to be accurate.
It is hardly the first time Arpaio, sheriff of Arizona's largest county, has attracted criticism from those who take issue with his approach. Last year, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon (D) and several immigrant rights groups called for a similar investigation, according to the Arizona Republic.
Arpaio has been at the center of other national controversies before, including instituting volunteer chain gangs and issuing prisoners pink underwear.
Conyers and his fellow committee members accuse Arpaio of ordering deputies to search largely Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Phoenix for illegal immigrants. Those in the Hispanic community, the lawmakers wrote, "feel under siege."
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Forget the 'friend of my enemy is my enemy' moral rationale - even as America 'slip-slides away'.
(The damning, criminal 'border issues' are now 'City' and quality of life and surival issues. Hell is 'slowly breaking lose here'; and when the 'sinister' finally takes over; Harry and Nancy and the Rat 'et als' will be the first to cry 'foul' against those who have fought to prevent this.) Harry is just warming up here.
Can we count yet, how many Arabs/Islamists are crossing our Mexican/USA border along with the Mexicans? (for sure, Conyer's largest constituency is not happy) Different constutuency; but same unfolding per the threats inherent (drug cartels combining with Islamic terrorists make this combination unthinkable).
The threat grows; and same anti-America, Democrat response follows. . .
Any video montage of Detroit would confirm that this senile old man has no contact with reality.
Like I say,... he's a perfect fit.
I agree. Conyers it the one who needs to be investigted.
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