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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has not exactly given up on the possibility that he will run for the U.S. Senate. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, Arpaio had previously made it sound like he was not interested in Jon Kyl's seat. However, nothing is set in stone. "The door is still open," Arpaio said. The report says Arpaio, on Tuesday, said he's still considering a run.

Jobs Americans Won't Do? "Crap", said one woman with a Masters degree willing to take the $8/hour jobs at Phoenix' Pei Wei Chinese joints after Sheriff Joe Arpaio liberated them with raids arresting dozens for identity theft crimes. What on Earth does Obama and holder not get about this? For every illegal with a job, there's an American without one. Thanks Sheriff Joe! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y34U07CxVm0

Pima County the 51st state?A political committee made up of attorneys, including the former chairman of the Pima County Democratic Party, has been formed to try to get Southern Arizona to secede from the rest of the state.Start Our State, which is asking other like-minded counties to join the effort, hopes to put the question before Pima County voters in 2012.The concept of a Southern Arizona state - Baja Arizona - has been around for ages as a way to differentiate the region from its more conservative brethren to the north. The notion of secession has been bandied about,...

It's too soon to crown anyone Arizona's next Senator -- but on the same day Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his intent to run, a new poll of Grand Canyon state Republicans shows Sheriff Joe Arpaio leading the field to replace the retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R). Arpaio has not announced his intention to run for the open Senate seat next year, though there's long been speculation that Arpaio -- an absolute rockstar among the anti-immigration set in the GOP -- is interested in higher office. His name has been mentioned among those that might run for Kyl's old seat,...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has made 41 arrests in the first day of its 2-day crime suppression and illegal immigration sweep in the valley on Thursday. Sgt. Jesse Spurgin said 33 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested on human smuggling charges, failure to provide ID and transporting marijuana. Eight others were arrested for drug possession, open warrants and driving on a suspended license, Spurgin said. Spurgin said three load vehicles were stopped. For the last few days, deputies and posse members have conducted a large scale undercover surveillance and intelligence gathering operation on drop house activity, drug activity and human...

'Tis the season to write songs about killing Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This past week I detailed how folk-punkers Andrew Jackson Jihad and other local bands had penned songs for the recent Chronicles of Sheriff Joe record that decries his racist tendencies and invokes murderous notions of offing Maricopa County's top cop. Turns out they're not the only ones. San Diego indie band Crocodiles posted a song titled "Kill Joe Arpaio" caught the attention of a few Valley TV stations and news outlets...The three-and-half-minute track consists of chit-chat from a San Diego-area radio station about the nutty Nativist movement and Arizona's...

Date: September 15, 2010 MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES STILL GOING AFTER HUMAN SMUGGLERS Sheriff Arpaio in planning stages for armed volunteer posse Illegal Immigration Enforcement Unit (Maricopa County, AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio reports that his deputies last night arrested another 23 illegal aliens in the act of being smuggled through Maricopa County. Last night’s arrest brings the week’s total to 35 illegal aliens arrested while engaging in human smuggling. The arrests were the result of two traffic stops in the north valley involving two separate vehicles. One vehicle contained 13 occupants and the other 12. During one of the traffic...

PHOENIX -- Citing the arrests of 35 illegal aliens this week for allegedly being involved in human smuggling, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Wednesday he will soon implement his plan for a volunteer armed posse to help with enforcement of illegal immigration and human smuggling laws. The sheriff said the posse members will be outfitted with appropriate hardware and gear. Arpaio's announcement came as he reported his deputies arrested 23 illegal aliens who were being smuggled through Maricopa County on Tuesday night, bringing the week's total to 35. Tuesday night's arrests were the result of two traffic stops in...

PHOENIX – The Justice Department has asked a federal judge in Arizona to force Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office to provide full and immediate access to records and facilities for a civil-rights investigation without going to trial. The motion for summary judgment filed Monday also asks the court to force the sheriff's office to comply with all future requests involving the probe. Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Arpaio's office for refusing to turn over documents or allow federal officials to evaluate jails and interview staff.

If you tried to help a "protected" Obama constituency, you had better hope that your best efforts didn't fail. The Gestapo will have you in its crosshairs. This is not the Gestapo of the thirties-Germany variety so vividly portrayed by Hollywood long after the bright shiny black uniforms and man-sized flashlights of the SS became extinct and irrelevant. Tom Perez — control freak Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General, heads the Justice Department's (DOJ) "Civil Rights" division. On September 3, the department filed a suit against "America's toughest sheriff" Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. The reason? The sheriff is actually...

NASHUA, N.H. -- Is it really possible that the toughest sheriff in America is considering a presidential run? He at least won't rule it out. "I guess that's what they say in politics. You never say never, so who knows?" Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said at a Republican luncheon Sunday in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is where politicians who want to be president often visit because of its early, crucial presidential primary. Arpaio, often a lightning rod in the West for his tough stance on illegal immigration, also draws protesters on the other side of the country.

America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff," Arizona's Joe Arpaio, is headlining a GOP event in New Hampshire this weekend, prompting speculation that he may have interest in a presidential run in 2012. Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, has made waves for his hardline stance on illegal immigration. He is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims Arpaio has not cooperated with an investigation into whether his immigration policing policies have violated civil rights.

<p>Washington (CNN) - "America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio passed on running for governor earlier this year, but the Arizona lawman who has become a national figure for his tough stand on illegal immigration is not closing the door on a presidential run in 2012.</p>

Abuse Of Power: Our misnamed Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against an Arizona sheriff at the top of the administration's enemies list. Prosecute border sheriffs and sue states but protect the Black Panthers? Gotcha. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the county itself and outspoken Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The suit alleges that the sheriff's office is in violation of civil rights laws by refusing for 17 months to fully cooperate with an investigation into police practices and jail operations. The federal probe itself deals with alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures,...

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office 100 West Washington, Suite 1900 Phoenix, AZ 85003 Joe Arpaio Sheriff Phone: 602-876-1801 Fax: 602-251-3877 Switchboard:602-876-1000 www.mcso.org The following is an official statement by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio regarding today’s lawsuit filed against his office by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. for alleged refusal to turn over documents. It is followed by another statement from his Washington, D.C. attorney, Bob Driscoll. “The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one against my office....

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against people with limited English skills. Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15...

PHOENIX — The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against people with limited English skills. Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked...

In Robert Rodriguez's new grindhouse feature "Machete," the vengeful title character uses vicious cutlery to butcher his enemies. Could something similar happen to the movie when it's released next week? "Machete's" convoluted story explicitly takes place amid the current powder keg of an immigration debate and on the heels of Arizona's controversial anti-illegal immigration legislation. Crooked politicians, powerful drug kingpins, malicious border vigilantes, antsy day laborers, conflicted customs agents and angry revolutionaries seethe along the U.S.-Mexico border in Rodriguez's film... ... about a former federale who gets mixed up in a messy conspiracy on the U.S. side of the border,...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Maricopa County, Arizona, man who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” has until Sept. 10 to comply with a Justice Department request to explain his office’s “operations, policies and procedures” involving the arrest and detention of Hispanics, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.The Department has been investigating the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for alleged civil rights violations. Officials set the deadline following a meeting Tuesday with Arpaio’s attorneys in Washington.  “If we do not receive clear and specific agreement for all of the [requests], we will conclude that completion cannot be achieved by voluntary...

PALOMINAS — A pair of defiant politicians — an Arizona legislator and the Maricopa County sheriff — put the federal government on notice Sunday that they and many Arizonans will not back down in seeking state authority against illegal immigration spilling over the border with Mexico. Saying he is tired of Mexico leaders putting the onus on the United States for that nation’s problems, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, defended Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, which he said has been emasculated by a federal judge. And with Mexico pushing the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama to do something to stop the bill’s...