Thread: Arizona County Sheriff Keeps Getting Elected Over And Over

Janet Napolitano tells us not to pay attention to what President Obama says about immigration: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/na...n-immigration/

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano accused her boss President Barack Obama of making an inaccurate statement on immigration law enforcement during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

A hot topic during the hearing was the Obama administration’s decision to selectively enforce immigration laws. The administration decided in mid-June – via an announcement from Napolitano and a subsequent Rose Garden speech from Obama – that it would not deport illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as “young children.”

The president’s decision to selectively enforce immigration laws directly contradicts a public statement he made in March 2011. Back then, Obama said he thought “[t]here are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”

Correct, sir — and yet, that’s what you’re doing.

http://patterico.com/2012/07/24/14-k...uggling-crash/

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Napolitano also said that it was she who made the policy decision by her memo and that she had not consulted with the President prior to the release of that memo, yet within hours, Obama was in the Rose Garden pandering for Hispanic votes because of “his” decision. In other words, his decision to encourage potential voters illegal aliens to continue to flood across our borders. Add that to this administrations food stamp ads on Spanih channels and working with the Mexican government to make sure that those potential voters illegal aliens are fully aware of the social welfare benefits available to them as long as they continue to dodge ICE agents.

Napolitano’s statements makes you wonder just exactly who is running the asylum if a cabinet member is setting policy that can only be dictated by Congress.

Now about the crash in Goliad County, Texas that took the lives of at least 14. With the outcry from the left that with stronger restrictions on fire arms Aurora would have never happened, will we now see a cry from them to a) restrict pickup trucks and b) seal the border? It is clear that these illegals were standing in the back of that F-250 since the max the bed of that 3/4 ton truck will hold is 8 if they are sitting down. So if you allow that there could have been no more than 5 in the cab, that means that the other 18 were all standing in the bed of the pickup.

It is also illegal in Texas to allow children to ride in the bed of a truck unless a) they are in a parade b)is the only vehicle available to the family and the children are restrained.

While every news media in the nation will lament over the Aurora shooting for weeks, there has been little reporting on the Goliad County disaster. Where are all the left wing bleating hearts on this “tragedy?” Or are we so used to the deaths of illegals, mostly at the hand of cayotes, that we have become numb to the loss of life in that area?

More and more of these senseless deaths are going to occur as we have an administration that not only refuses to adhere to current immigration law, but who seems to be doing everything in its power to encourage even more events like this one. And the Mexican cayotes just got the message from the Oval Office and Janet Napolitano, “Collect your paycheck.”

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5.All these people probably paid an average of $3,000 a piece. If instead the money was collected by the U.S. Treasury (and deposited in the Social Security trust fund) all this would be prevented.

You’d place a ceiling on the amount smugglers could charge and you could put them almost out of business.

That’s what President Bush was for. Maybe not exactly that, but liberalizing immigration (especially from Mexico) at the same time as tighter border enforcement was tried. That wasn’t done, so this is the result.

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It is well past time to seal the border, and to declare that human-smuggling is a Crime Against Humanity, deserving the Death Penalty wherever it is encountered (Summary Execution). Perhaps then a dent can be make in the scale of the Collateral Damage the “coyotes” create.

I do not feel sorry for rapist who get killed, or pedophiles killed while committing their crimes. Why would I care about illegals who die while entering the country illegally. Their choice, their risk.

Me

Originally Posted by hblueeyes

I do not feel sorry for rapist who get killed, or pedophiles killed while committing their crimes. Why would I care about illegals who die while entering the country illegally. Their choice, their risk.

Me

Perhaps if our immigration laws were enforced and illegals were continuously being sent back (costing them cayote money for nothing), they'd stop (or at least greatly reduce) the illegals putting their lives (and others) in jeopardy. That would make too much sense.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Blasts Obama “Amnesty” – Vows to Continue to Enforce Immigration Laws
By John Hill on August 17, 2012

As politicians around the nation hide in the shadows and wring their hands over Obama’s lawless mass amnesty for 2 million illegals, the state of Arizona is presenting a united front against it.

On Wednesday, as tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” lined up in cities across the nation to apply for a near-automatic 2-year stay from deportation and work permit that Obama bypassed Congress to order, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer showed that at least one state was not going to take it lying down. Brewer issued an executive order barring drivers licenses and any public benefits to any illegal alien granted a waiver by Obama’s DHS.

Now today, Arizona’s principal law enforcement official, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, spoke out to blast the Obama “deferred action” scheme, and said it would not change the way he performed his duty.

On CNN’s Starting Point, Arpaio slammed Obama’s decree as political gamesmanship:

“Why did the president sign an executive order at this time, when there’s an election coming up?” Arpaio said. “So this is definitely politics, this whole situation on illegal immigration. And the White House and Congress, one of these days, should look at it, forget the executive orders, but get some laws passed. That’s what should be happening. (But) this administration wants amnesty. The bottom line is they want amnesty.”

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien asked Arpaio, the nation’s most prominent symbol in the fight against illegal immigration, if his stance could hurt him with Hispanic voters – a fear that’s evidently causing Republican Senators and Representatives, and GOP candidate Mitt Romney to remain silent in the face of Obama’s outrageous, lawless action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=srV8dl8_0aA

“You think I’m concerned? I’m up for reelection for the sixth time,” he said. “I know that some of the Latinos don’t like what I’m doing. But you have to do what you took an oath of office to do, and I’m going to do it. … We have to do what’s right for the people of this state and this country and forget the politics, if that can ever be accomplished.”

Soon after Obama announced his amnesty plan, Arpaio was asked by a reporter if he will “help those new immigrants who are here under that provision to feel welcome?” the Sheriff simply said he had no contact with those people and that “I’m going to continue to enforce all our illegal immigration laws.”

Way to go, Joe! Arizona stands proud tonight that – while others are showing profiles in cowardice - our two most prominent leaders are standing up to Obama’s disgraceful amnesty edict.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...igration-laws/

EPIC FAIL: Obama Admin. Drops 3-Year Witch-hunt Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio (No Charges)
By John Hill on August 31, 2012

It’s finally over. The 3-year, disgraceful witch-hunt of Sheriff Joe Arpaio by the Obama Department of Injustice was dropped tonight, with absolutely no charges to be filed in the matter. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...o-charges?lite

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel released a statement saying her office “is closing its investigation into allegations of criminal conduct” by current and former members of the sheriff‘s and county attorney’s offices.

Scheel didn’t elaborate, saying only that County Attorney Bill Montgomery was advised of the decision “not to pursue state criminal charges related to the investigation.” Scheel, who is based in Arizona, said she was acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Friday night releases of embarrassing political revelations are a long and infamous tradition, in order to minimize the exposure of the story to the American people. But this release took the cake: Friday at 5pm, before a Labor Day weekend, and right after the close of the Republican National Convention.

And no wonder. This one was a doozy. After all, this was a political persecution right from the start. The Obama DOJ started this thing less than 100 days after Obama took office, at a time when the Department was not even fully staffed. They were chomping at the bit to go after him. And now it is all for nothing.

Dozens of investigators, 4 Federal prosecutors, countless FBI agents, all working for three damn years to try and bring down Sheriff Joe. We won’t hold our breath waiting for the left-wing media to demand to know how much the DOJ spent on this disgraceful with-hunt, but you can bet it was in the tens of millions.

And they came up with NOTHING. Because there IS nothing. Because this was never about substance, only politics.

They simply hate Sheriff Joe Arpaio. They hate his muscular enforcement of our immigration laws without apology, his workplace raids to liberate jobs for legal Americans, his “posse” and “crime suppression sweeps” that brought in tens of thousands of illegal aliens, identity thieves, drug and human smugglers and violent criminals. They hate his Tent City – which began its 20th year this month.

They hate him for being the biggest national symbol in the fight against illegal immigration – and for having the support of millions of Americans in that effort.

We will always stand with him, and say to ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ tonight, WAY TO GO JOE!

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...io-no-charges/

The only thing they dropped was the case where they were trying to prove that sheriff joe and his staff misused funds (financial) and not for their witch hunt for what they refer to as civil rights violations. The government seems to ignore that the civil rights of the americans have been violated by allowing people who have broken the law and gone against the constitution and are being allowed to live off the money the taxpayers have been forced to pay. The government has given them more rights than what they give us. We need more people like sheriff joe who are willing to abide by the laws and follow thru and not just turn their heads. I have no problem with having to show id and proof of my citizenship to law enforcement just like I would have to do if I were in Europe. I would have no problem showing proof in order to vote. To me the only people who would protest this are those who have something to hide!

Decision not to charge Ariz. sheriff isn't the end
By BOB CHRISTIE and JACQUES BILLEAUD | Associated Press – 1 hr 24 mins ago.

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal abuse-of-power investigation into America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff may have been closed without criminal charges but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's legal troubles are far from over.

A civil case brought by a small group of Latinos who accuse Arpaio's office of systematically racially profiling is awaiting a verdict from an Arizona-based federal judge.

The U.S. Department of Justice has also sued the sheriff for alleged constitutional violations including racial profiling, retaliating against Arpaio critics, punishing Latino jail inmates with limited English skills for speaking Spanish and failing to adequately investigate a large number of sex-crimes cases. No trial date in that case has been set.

The Justice Department announced late Friday that it would not pursue criminal charges against the sheriff or his office, or against former Maricopa County top prosecutor Andrew Thomas and a top Thomas aide, Lisa Aubuchon, for abuse of power.

Thomas and Aubuchon were disbarred by the state Supreme Court earlier this year after an ethics panel decided they brought criminal charges against two county officials and a judge in December 2009 with the purpose of embarrassing them. The cases were investigated by Arpaio's now-closed anti-public corruption squad.

Thomas was a longtime Arpaio ally.

Authorities were investigating Arpaio for his part in failed public corruption cases against officials who were odds with him. The sheriff brought cases against a judge and two county officials in 2009 and Thomas prosecuted them.

Federal authorities also said Friday that they have decided to not prosecute matters tied to alleged misuse of county credit cards by sheriff's officials, alleged misspending of jail-enhancement funds and other matters.

The yearslong probe by the FBI and federal prosecutors into Arpaio, Thomas and their offices began during the tenure of President George W. Bush, although Arpaio, a fellow Republican, has since called it politically motivated since.

"If I did something wrong there would be indictments floating all over the place," Arpaio said at a news conference called late Friday night. "I'm not going to get into all the details whether it's political, a witchhunt or whatever you have. The bottom line is we were cleared and we should stay with that and not get into all the politics involved."

Arpaio critics reacted with dismay to the decision not to seek criminal charges, saying they had hoped the Justice Department would finally act against what they call an out-of-control sheriff's office.

"It's an understandable reaction," said Paul Charlton, a former U.S. attorney in Arizona who has worked for one of the county supervisors who was charged. "I can see how after so many years and so much misconduct by Joe Arpaio you would have that feeling.

Charlton said prosecutors had to measure the likelihood of proving any criminal case beyond a reasonable doubt.

"You have to have a reasonable likelihood of success and I trust they made this decision based upon the facts and the law."

But the sheriff will have a different challenge in the civil cases he now faces.

"As a practical and a legal matter it means nothing," Charlton said of the decision not to pursue criminal cases. "This is a different venue and a different standard of proof. It is one that many of Joe Arpaio's critics, including myself, would have liked to have seen come out differently.

"But the end of Joe Arpaio's legal troubles is a long, long way away. He already has lost many legal fights. He has been found to have committed significant misconduct, not the least of which was the finding in the state bar proceeding regarding Andrew Thomas. And I think we will see more of those findings in the future."

Arpaio, 80, is seeking re-election to a sixth term in November. He has a multi-million dollar campaign account on hand to repel two challengers seeking his seat.

http://news.yahoo.com/decision-not-c...215432230.html

Unbelievable how the New York Times - in the aftermath of a brutal hurricane hitting NYC - still found space on its FRONT PAGE to run a piece trying to defeat a county Sheriff 2,000 miles away. THAT is how badly the national open-borders elites want to get rid of Sheriff Joe Arpaio this election. THAT is why George Soros, national unions and La Raza have pumped millions into this race - narrowing his lead with lies, and putting hundreds of activists on the ground to turn out the vote against him. We MUST stand behind Sheriff Joe tomorrow. If you live in Maricopa County, make sure to get everyone you know to support Joe, and if you live anywhere else in America, and stand with Sheriff Joe and the rule of law

Latinos Urged to Oust Sheriff Over Deportations
By FERNANDA SANTOS Published: November 2, 2012
PHOENIX — This election year, community groups working to get more Latinos to turn out and vote have enlisted the help of an unwitting ally: Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the brash-talking embodiment of the battles over illegal immigration in Arizona and beyond. When they knock on doors — trying, at first, to persuade Latinos to join voter rolls, and later returning to make sure they cast their ballots — the activists resort to the same question to drive the conversation: Don’t you want Sheriff Arpaio out of office?

Then they deliver their pitch: Have you heard of his opponent, Paul Penzone?

The groups, organized under catchy names like Adiós Arpaio and Joe’s Got to Go, are a motley mixture: members of religious groups, labor unions and advocacy organizations, as well as high school students who are mostly too young to vote. They were brought together by timing, circumstance and a common goal that to many rings awfully close to home.

Felix Trejo’s father was deported to Mexico three years ago, after he was caught driving without a license by Sheriff Arpaio’s deputies. In 2010, Yaraneth Marin’s father was also deported, after deputies acting on a court order rounded up several of her relatives at home. Jacqueline Garcia’s grandfather, who had been raising her and her brother, was deported in May, after deputies arrested him for some type of traffic violation that she could not describe.

“I know how it feels,” Jacqueline, 15, often tells the prospective voters she meets on the hours she spends canvassing. She knocks on doors every evening after classes at Carl Hayden Community High School, where she is a sophomore.

By their count, the community groups registered 34,327 Latino voters over the past six months. Bruce Merrill, a senior research fellow at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University, said the sheriff’s race and a Senate contest featuring Richard H. Carmona, a Hispanic Democrat, are expected to drive up turnout among Latino voters.

Other signs already pointed to a hard-fought election for Sheriff Arpaio, 80, whose jurisdiction is Maricopa County. Just this year, he has been on trial over allegations of civil rights violations against Latinos, who accused him of targeting them in raids and traffic stops. The Justice Department sued him on the same grounds, and other lawsuits have been filed, by inmates and inmates’ families, claiming mistreatment in the county jails.

Throughout his tenure — he was first elected in 1992 — Sheriff Arpaio has welcomed the criticism brought by his directives, like outfitting inmates in pink underwear, creating a female chain gang and unabashedly using the powers vested in him by the laws of the state to pursue illegal immigrants.

“He has been in office long enough to have alienated an awful lot of people,” Mr. Merrill said. “But the key thing to understand is that nobody here in Arizona knows who Paul Penzone is. This is a race of Joe Arpaio against Joe Arpaio.”

Mr. Penzone, 45, a Democrat, retired from the Phoenix Police Department three years ago after 21 years on the force, much of it working as an undercover narcotics officer and as a manager of its Silent Witness program, which offers rewards to people who help the authorities solve crimes. He is, however, very much a stranger among many voters.

When Yaraneth, 16, asked a woman on whose door she had knocked about Mr. Penzone, the woman replied, “I don’t know much about him.”

He has been working to introduce himself to voters bit by bit. He has hosted events in Fountain Hills, where Sheriff Arpaio lives, and in El Mirage, where the sheriff’s office failed to properly investigate a number of sex crimes.

A few weeks ago, Mr. Penzone spoke to 50 voters in Sun City, a retirement community just outside Phoenix and one of Sheriff Arpaio’s staunchest strongholds. Last week, he spoke to a group of voters who had helped start the effort to recall Russell K. Pearce, a former state senator who was the primary sponsor of the state’s controversial immigration bill. Mr. Penzone’s Web site prominently features a “Republicans for Penzone” link.

“The plan is to stay strong in our message, to define who I am and to ensure there’s honesty in the sheriff’s message,” Mr. Penzone said in an interview.

Sheriff Arpaio does not engage in traditional campaigning. He speaks or makes an appearance wherever he is invited, his campaign manager, Chad Willems, said. The invitations come often: the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Ride for Kids in Phoenix on Oct. 21, the Real Estate Securities Symposium in neighboring Scottsdale on Oct. 22, the Fall Festival apple pie contest in Anthem on Oct. 27, and the dedication of a new Elks Lodge building in Mesa on Oct. 28. And those are just the ones he mentioned on his Twitter feed.

“He’s in high demand,” Mr. Willems said.

He also has a lot of money — $8.5 million at last count, way more than any other candidate vying for local elected office in the history of the state. His ads are all over television, portraying him as a devoted husband, highlighting his experience before his election to sheriff (he worked for years for the Drug Enforcement Administration) and telling voters about a piece of Mr. Penzone’s past that they may not have known — a domestic violence incident involving his former wife that resulted in orders of protection issued against both.

Mr. Penzone said she struck him with hockey sticks. She told the police that he pushed her against the door. A judge found Mr. Penzone to represent “a credible threat to the safety” of his ex-wife and ordered him to surrender his weapons, according to court documents.

In the interview, Mr. Penzone played down the episode, saying that it happened “more than 10 years ago” and that “there were no charges” or reprimands against him from that time, when he was still a police officer.

He and his supporters have labored to counter the barrage of Arpaio campaign ads over the past month with boots on the ground. Teams of volunteers fan across Latino enclaves every day; sometimes they get doors slammed in their faces, though other times they get to come in and help someone fill out a ballot received by mail. (Early voting is expected to account for roughly 60 percent of all votes cast in Arizona.)

Small victories charge them up. One afternoon, on the courtyard of a public housing development in South Phoenix, Yaraneth high-fived Mr. Trejo as they got one man to commit to casting a vote against Sheriff Arpaio.

“Jan Brewer, she’s next,” said Ms. Marin, referring to the state’s Republican governor, who has been tough on illegal immigration.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/us...paio.html?_r=0

Inquiry Finds No Misdeeds by Sheriff in Arizona (September 1, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/us...l?ref=politics

When a Taste for Publicity Bites Back (August 2, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us...l?ref=politics

Something stinks when upholding the law and the constitution is considered by some a racist crime. We should treat those non-citizens the same way their countries would treat us....and see how they like it!

Originally Posted by boopster

We should treat those non-citizens the same way their countries would treat us....and see how they like it!

Look up how Mexico treats their "illegal Immigrants" ... or even "naturalized citizens"

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the target of a nasty recall campaign to remove him from office. He is hated by the Left for his workplace raids against illegal alien identity thieves. He is the target of frequent death threats. The Mexican cartels once offered a $1 million bounty for his head. Sheriff Joe has no shortage of enemies because he won’t back down in enforcing the law.

Yesterday it got serious, as someone sent a package containing an “explosive device” addressed to the Maricopa County Sheriff. The package was intercepted by local law enforcement when it was X-rayed, A bomb team was deployed and the device was detonated.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...ff-joe-arpaio/