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Posted on 05/25/2010 10:55:23 PM PDT by donna
PHOENIX, AZ – Authorities say two traffic stops by Maricopa County Sheriffs deputies resulted in the arrest of 19 undocumented immigrants.
According to a sheriff's office news release, the Monday night arrests occurred when deputies were led to believe that the suspects were violating human smuggling laws or co-conspiring to commit human smuggling.
MCSO officials said they often book undocumented immigrants on smuggling conspiracy when detectives can prove that they have an agreement with someone to sneak them into the country.
They said so far they have arrested over 2,000 undocumented immigrants for smuggling-related charges with a 94 percent conviction rate.
Last week, interim County Attorney Rick Romley said that he will no longer prosecute the felony conspiracy cases referred by sheriff’s deputies.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has voiced concerns with the policy by saying that it is a type of amnesty, according to the news release.
"While politicians continue to react to all the hype about securing our southern border, my deputies will continue to arrest those illegal aliens that they come into contact with during the course of their duties. I also look forward to enforcing all aspects of the new state illegal immigration law when it goes into effect," Arpaio said.
Arpaio said he will continue to arrest suspects believed to be smuggling undocumented immigrants into Arizona despite Romley’s stance.
It the Arizona law!!! I'm so angry.
The corrupt Board of Supervisors just placed Romley in this position because the previous County Attorney, a good conservative, resigned to run for another office.
Fixed It!
read this!
Mexico is a large source, transit, and destination country for persons trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Groups considered most vulnerable to human trafficking in Mexico include women and children, indigenous persons, and undocumented migrants. A significant number of Mexican women, girls, and boys are trafficked within the country for commercial sexual exploitation, lured by false job offers from poor rural regions to urban, border, and tourist areas. According to the government, more than 20,000 Mexican children are victims of sex trafficking every year, especially in tourist and border areas. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009
keep going joe. when romley makes a run this fall, their will be an arrest/decline to prosecute trail.
i can’t wait to vote against romley.
The local news reported a murder was committed by an illegal who was deported. He came back and he and another guy killed someone. Chalk up another death to the border brothers.
Vote against him?
Hell! Someone’s bound to get really pissed off, won’t want to wait, and either shoot him or tar-and-feather him long before any election.
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Maybe if an illegal immigrant runs into him or steals his ID, it might change his mind. I think that it’s OUTRAGEOUS of Rick Romley to not punish law breakers. What other laws is Rick willing to ignore?
Rick Romley was appointed to replaced Andrew Thomas mentioned below. This law means that not just the coyotes, but also the illegal aliens themselves, can be prosecuted because they participate in smuggling themselves. Now Romley refuses to follow the law!
Prosecution of migrant upheld by appeals court
Jul. 18, 2008
One day after Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced his office’s 750th successful prosecution under the 3-year-old human-smuggling law, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld his interpretation of the law.
Thomas called the unanimous three-judge decision “intellectually courageous” and said that it would “no doubt upset many political and media elites” who disagree with his immigration policies. (snip)
1. Women are brought across the border for purposes of prostitution. Some are willing participants, others are forced. Others are brought under false pretenses and then forced into prostitution. All these cases are human trafficking. The United States Government is on record as opposing human trafficking, so there should be no reluctance to prosecute the people involved.
2. People pay coyotes to bring them across the border, in violation of U.S. immigration policies. This is also human trafficking and the participants, coyotes, and the people who pay them, must be prosecuted for human trafficking.
3. Mexican nationals smuggle themselves across the border and try to find work. This is also human trafficking. The Mexican National has broken the law, and anyone hiring the person engages in human trafficking. Persons who knowingly hire illegals are complicit in human trafficking.
My view, is that those who are against the laws being enforced to stop illegals from entering, or the laws prosecuting the illegals who are caught, are by definition, supporters of human trafficking, and they need to be told to their faces.
A great point was made that the President of Mexico needs to be loudly criticized and asked why his country is so awful that his citizens need to escape. When is he, and when are the other political leaders, going to make conditions attractive enough for their own citizens to stay home and earn a good living? Put up or shut Calderon. Mexican politicians are responsible for the problems of the United States, and frankly, if they don't get a handle on this, they should be indicted and tried in an American court of law for aiding and abetting human trafficking.
They said so far they have arrested over 2,000 undocumented immigrants for smuggling-related charges with a 94 percent conviction rate.
They have a 94% conviction rate -- and that interim County Attorney, Rick Romley, says that he will no longer prosecute the felony conspiracy cases referred by the police -- all I can say is "What the hell!" ...
What irks me the most is thinking how my grandparents came here legally to make a better life & endured many hardships. Or when families had to send a member back since they weren't healthy. These illegals are bringing drugs, weapons & diseases here & it is fine with not my president 0.
Last week, interim County Attorney Rick Romley said that he will no longer prosecute the felony conspiracy cases referred by sheriff’s deputies.Is a law enforcement officer willfully not upholding the law any different than breaking the law?....
I guess, now days, it makes him eligible to run for President.
The corrupt Board of Supervisors just placed Romley in this position because the previous County Attorney, a good conservative, resigned to run for another office.
I was doing a little bit of "reading up" on it, and it sounds like what has been going on here, for a while, is a political dog fight. This is a continuation of that long-standing political dog fight. I'm talking about Romley and Arpaio lobbing threats and accusations at each other for quite a while now ... LOL ... and you're not going to get "cooperation" with one another, when you're in the "political dog fight mode" ... :-)
The difference between them is: Arpaio obeys state, Romley does not obey state law.
The arrogance of the pro-illegal crowd.
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