Arizona County Sheriff Keeps Getting Elected Over And Over

[tngirl]

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO HE IS THE MARICOPA, ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER. THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail": He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to theirgovernment-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he to! ld all of the inmates:

"It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for theirparole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for
themselves.


Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

[stresseater]

I'd vote for him(or anyone like him) in a heartbeat. :D :D

[DrGrin]

I'd vote for him(or anyone like him) in a heartbeat. :D :D

Ditto :eek:

[killbarney]

That's what we need more of-not this baby the sissy inmates puke. A REAL incentive to stay OUT of jail, not a reason to go in. Those a$$es get better health care/meals/entertainment/education/etc than a lot of the law-abiding people who pay for them to live. I don't want to return to the inhumane abuse prisoners had a long time ago, but making them responsible and uncomfortable wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

[xtrememom]

I think he is awesome and would love to have him come here to reform our jail system. Our system is charging a fee per day for inmates now. I wish he was here I wonder if it would have changed my son any at all and put him on the straight and narrow instead of him being a fugitive and warrants out for his arrest. I think this guy rocks !!

xtrememom

[YankeeMary]

If they aren't working on the chain gangs, how could they afford to pay to stay there? If you don't pay what are they going to do kick you out? Most do not care if you would turn it in to collects as I am sure their credit is already a mess.
I do like the fact that he is making them work, not only is it putting back into a system that supports them, but it also has to help moral since most people feel better about themselves when they work and support themselves.
I am just thankful that I am a law abiding citizen that lives in Ga...lol.
Thanks for the post.

[buttrfli]

I wish more people had the balls to do things like this.

[killbarney]

I'd say-you don't work, you don't eat/sleep on a cot(sleep on the floor), you don't get a tent, etc. They should make it very uncomfy for them. ;)




If you don't pay what are they going to do kick you out?

[Jolie Rouge]

See also : http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/562358-joe-arpaio-tough-guy-sheriff.html


Phoenix mayor asks FBI to check Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Sun Apr 13, 2:46 PM ET

PHOENIX - The mayor wants the FBI to investigate whether the local county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws with his recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants.

The "saturation patrols" have drawn protests from civil rights and immigrant-rights advocates, but they have drawn support from backers of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and from people who believe the government hasn't done enough against illegal immigration.

In an April 4 letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Mayor Phil Gordon asked the agency and the Justice Department's civil rights division to examine what he called discriminatory harassment and improper stops, searches, and arrests by sheriff's deputies in Maricopa County, which encompasses the metropolitan area.

"Over the past few weeks, Sheriff Arpaio's actions have infringed on the civil rights of our residents," Gordon wrote. "They have put our residents' well-being, and the well-being of law enforcement officers, at risk."

Justice Department officials said they would review Gordon's letter but declined to comment further.

Arpaio said it's ironic that Gordon wrote the letter the same day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials observed his deputies arresting residents and illegal immigrants in the town of Guadalupe and approved of the sheriff's work.

"I think the mayor is disconnected from the people he represents and he doesn't get the point," Arpaio said Saturday. "Now he's going to Washington to confuse the issue and try to get the public against me."

The mayor "is degrading my office and my deputies by insinuating that they're violating all these civil laws. We don't profile," the sheriff said.

In the past month, sheriff's deputies and trained volunteers have gone into neighborhoods with large Hispanic populations, stopping people for routine traffic violations and asking some of them about their immigration status. Dozens of illegal immigrants have been detained.

ICE officials say Arpaio is not violating the formal agreement he has with their office that allows sheriff's deputies to enforce immigration laws.

Last week, the Arizona Ecumenical Council and American Jewish Committee issued a joint letter saying the patrols "evoked a 'police state' atmosphere" and led to "detainment on the basis of a racial profile and dehumanization of innocent people."

They were joined Friday by the Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League, which echoed calls for a Justice Department investigation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080413/ap_on_re_us/immigration_sweeps;_ylt=AkvmRtBM6kADIYiw1JNDg0pH2o cA

[PrincessArky]

I love Sheriff Joe

[ahippiechic]

Personally - he's an ass. Professionally, I love the way he does things!

[Adra]

I like him, I like the stand he takes and I wish there were more people like him.

Sheriff Joe does his job and he is someone to look up to and admire. South Carolina could use a few people like him.

[PrincessArky]

I like him, I like the stand he takes and I wish there were more people like him.

Sheriff Joe does his job and he is someone to look up to and admire. South Carolina could use a few people like him.

so could Arkansas

[dv8grl]

The mayor wants the FBI to investigate whether the local county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws with his recent high-profile crackdowns on illegal immigrants.



First off, ILLEGAL really should mean NO RIGHTS, not civil rights. Ship'em back.. PERIOD.

Secondly, this will be the end of Phil Gordons career, at least in Arizona politics., unless they give illegals the right to vote.

[Bahet]

Personally - he's an ass. Professionally, I love the way he does things!

Ayup! He's an egomanical son of a you know what but he's a heckuva good sherriff. I voted for him and I'll do so again. Even though he's a *gasp* Republican! *shudder*

[ahippiechic]

Ayup! He's an egomanical son of a you know what but he's a heckuva good sherriff. I voted for him and I'll do so again. Even though he's a *gasp* Republican! *shudder*

Yeah You know he has to be a good sheriff for me to like, with that "Republican" strike against him!

[tracey74]

we need someone like that here in wv especially in my county its soo damned corrupt that most offenders of any kind get a little time in jail and are let out early or they get probation after probation after breaking their probation.here all you do is have to rat someone out and they let you out its pathetic. a guy I know was charged on over 200 accounts of sexual assault on his stepdaughter her pled guilty to like 4 charges and got only 2-10 year which is suppose to be 2-10 on every charge. I think he got off easy since his daddy at one time when he was alive was a big man so to speak in that town(owned all kinds of property,had money,etc) so yeah if we had a sheriff like that in our town that actually enforced the law I would register to vote and vote him in no problem.

[myspirit]

You go JOE! And yes, we want you in Arkansas!

[LuvBigRip]

I love Sheriff Joe!

[Jolie Rouge]

Protesters demand crackdown on Sheriff Arpaio
by Yvonne Wingett - Jun. 19, 2008 07:11 PM
The Arizona Republic

Critics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio staged a raucous show Thursday in hopes of pressuring the Board of Supervisors to monitor more closely his enforcement of immigration laws and the amount of public money spent on lawsuits that involve his office.

The protesters, hundreds strong, were unsuccessful in holding the five elected officials to any promises. The Supervisors unanimously approved a $2.4 billion budget, up slightly from this year, with cuts in nearly all departments and programs, and about 428 eliminated vacant positions and layoffs. But the it was more of a rowdy bash-session and less of a budget hearing.The session in downtown Phoenix was standing room only filled with protesters and sheriff's officials. The meeting went on for three hours, interrupted with bursts of applause and name-calling.

At one point, Supervisor Andrew Kunasek stood and banged his gavel as protective services officers moved toward an Arpaio critic who talked past the three-minute time limit. Dozens responded by walking out, screaming, "Your sheriff is a disgrace to the nation."

Arpaio vowed he will continue to enforce "all of the laws of this land" despite the criticism. He blamed the protest and ongoing political controversies over his immigration sweeps and on a "conspiracy" among Democrats Gov. Janet Napolitano, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox.

Arpaio thanked the four Republican supervisors - who stood at one point to indicate their support - for backing him. "I'm the sheriff and I decide on the policies of this office and I'll continue to do so," he said.

Limited oversight

The supervisors must approve the sheriff's budget, but because he is an elected official, they cannot tell him how to spend it. The budget plan for fiscal 2009, which begins July 1, increases spending by 0.4 percent as the county deals with rising health-care costs and increases in mandated spending - particularly in criminal justice.

Overall, the budget reflects $42.2 million in cuts for county departments, accomplished through tightened spending, efficiencies, cuts in programs, layoffs, and allowing positions to remain vacant. The Sheriff's Office took a 5.3 percent cut, about $4.1 million, to his general budget, which primarily pays for law-enforcement patrol. About 3 percent, or $4.8 million, was cut from his detention fund, which helps pay for jail operations. Another $56 million in cuts was made to non-departmental budgets and reductions to infrastructure projects and reserve funds.

County officials restored some Human Services programs, which were going to be eliminated. Those include a transportation program for the elderly and disabled, a meal delivery program and a program to provide shelter to the homeless. "This budget was very, very difficult to balance," said Sandi Wilson, deputy county manager. "We had to make a lot of difficult choices because the revenues are so down. This is a very frugal budget."

The county's sales-tax collections and vehicle-license tax and jail tax fell far below officials' worst expectations, short $34.9 million combined. Meanwhile, the state's efforts to fill a $2.2 billion hole in its budget could trickle down to the county, cutting tens of millions of dollars from county coffers and force officials to modify the budget.

Meanwhile, the state's efforts to fill a $2.2 billion hole in its budget could roll down to the county, cost tens of millions of dollars from county coffers, and force budget officials to modify the budget. Napolitano proposed a plan to shift some inmates from state prisons to county jails and a plan to expand highway photo radar to bring money into the state. "We got a fair deal for the taxpayers, I believe, and we're going to provide the services to the public that we have to provide," said Kunasek.

New group

About 200 of the protesters were from a new group, the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability. They helped pack the room to capacity, and many were sent across the plaza to watch the hearing on TV.

Many wore red T-shirts, with a message to the supervisors on the back: Stop Wasting OUR money. No more lawsuits. No more media circus. No more money for Arpaio.

In the hearing, several said they were concerned with the treatment of undocumented immigrants by Arpaio's office and said his policies have created a climate of fear that makes immigrants too scared to call police for help, or to report crimes. Others took issue with the number of lawsuits Arpaio's office has been involved in over the years and challenged the supervisors to make Arpaio report to the board each month to account for his spending. It already is monitored closely, along with spending in all other departments.

"While county boards across the state of Arizona govern and maintain their budgets quietly and with dignity, they set the tone for how every person within the boundaries of their county are treated," said Rev. Liana Rowe, of Interfaith Worker Justice of Arizona. "They are not allowing their sheriff or their county attorney or anyone else whose budget they control to dictate how people are to be treated within their boundaries."

The group walked out shortly after, shouting at the Supervisors and gathering in the plaza with megaphones and signs.

Chants of "No justice, no peace" gave way to "We will be back" and then to "Si se puede" the rallying cry of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez.

Adrian Vidal, 34, wanted the supervisors to consider his thoughts when they approved their budget: "They are using this money, our money, my money, in the wrong places. Stop giving my money to Joe Arpaio."

A small group of Arpaio supporters spoke in his favor and Anna Gaines was among them: "I support . . . the sheriff 100 percent," she said.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/19/20080619countybudget0620.html



Dozens responded by walking out, screaming, "Your sheriff is a disgrace to the nation."

hhmmmm .... rather telling, do'n'cha' think ? "YOUR" sherriff, not "OUR" sheriff. I love how they import out-of-towners for these protest :rolleyes:



...and the amount of public money spent on lawsuits that involve his office...

…yeah, lawsuits that these protesters or their activist friends probably filed themselves…


A group of religious leaders on Monday called on elected officials in Arizona to move from what it described as a hateful tone in the debate about illegal immigration and to adopt a more compassionate approach.

The more than 20 pastors wrote a letter to the state’s top officials, urging them to consider immigration laws that preserve human dignity. “We must uphold the law, but when laws are used to raid churches and church events and separate children from families, then it indicates that something is wrong with these laws,” said Gary Kinnaman, pastor-at-large of the 6,000-member Word of Grace church in Mesa.

The letter is noteworthy because many of the pastors who signed it come from largely White, conservative, evangelical Christian churches. It follows a letter from other mainstream Protestant and Jewish faiths condemning recent raids by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.


Why don’t these reverends and pastors worry about the dignity of Mexican citizens in Mexico? Why is it with all the resources that Mexico has it can’t provide a first world economy? Why is there no responsiblity there? Is another nation responsible for the unemployed of another nation? Why doesn’t Mexico have its own social system such as welfare and social security and other benefits that other first world nations have? Where is the concern of “dignity” there?


“We must uphold the law, but when laws are used to raid churches and church events and separate children from families, then it indicates that something is wrong with these laws,” said Gary Kinnaman, pastor-at-large of the 6,000-member Word of Grace church in Mesa.

I hate to break it to you but the laws are not used for anything other than classifying, identifying and prosecuting illegal behavior. The laws are used to catch criminals. As for any inconvenience to the criminals, they should have taken that into consideration before they willfully broke the law.

I have no more compassion for a Church that violates the law than I do for an individual. Are the criminals currently in our penal institutions for other crimes now bringing their families to jail with them? We are a nation of laws no matter what some people may wish to believe. There is now and always should be a punishment for people who willfully violate those laws … especially when it adversely affects other citizens and the nation as a whole.

This Country, this State and this County have laws that are not subject to emotional ‘feelings’; Churches and other institutions do not have extra legal authority and families get broken apart when someone in that family breaks the law. If these illegal aliens do not wish to be seperated from their children they should take them with them. Parent are to care for their children. These Pastors SHOULD know that. That is just another and Higher Law these Pastors seem to be ignoring.

[LuvBigRip]

And yet, he will once again win overwhelmingly. Why? Because he is the only one out there actually doing something, instead of talking about it.

[PrincessArky]

And yet, he will once again win overwhelmingly. Why? Because he is the only one out there actually doing something, instead of talking about it.

exactly

[meltodd69]

WOW I would vote for him! I agree they make it way to easy in jail.

[Jolie Rouge]

TV show latest offbeat tactic for Arizona sheriff
By TERRY TANG, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 26, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081226/ap_en_ot/sheriff_reality_show

PHOENIX – In Arizona, seeing Joe Arpaio on TV is nothing new. But the self-described "America's toughest sheriff" now has a national platform to pursue lawbreakers that stretches beyond the 5 o'clock news.

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which oversees the state's most populous county, has a starring role in "Smile ... You're Under Arrest!," a new reality show debuting Saturday on Fox Reality Channel.

A cross between "Punk'd" and "Cops," the program sets up elaborate sting operations to snare people wanted on outstanding warrants. Actors and undercover deputies play along in faux scenarios where scofflaws are enticed to have a good time; the drama comes when cast members reveal the prank and waiting deputies slap on handcuffs.

Arpaio, who has been accused of being publicity-hungry more than once, says the show is not about fame-seeking, adding that the producers approached him.

"This is just another outside-the-box effort to join forces with the private industry/Hollywood to use certain techniques," Arpaio said. "It's entertainment. But on the other hand, we're able to accomplish a mission and also arrest people out on warrants."

The sheriff is known for overseeing the Tent City Jail, where inmates are housed under surplus military tents. In Maricopa County jails, inmates don old-fashioned prison stripes and work on chain gangs.

But Arpaio has fielded harsher criticism in recent years for how things operate behind the scenes. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has paid millions of dollars in settlements involving dead or injured inmates.

"The reality is the man has lost complete touch with reality," said Michael Manning, a Phoenix attorney who has won settlements for clients against the sheriff's office. "He's spending time on something like this as opposed to getting those felony warrants executed on our streets. ... If it weren't so serious, I'd say it would be funny."

County officials have generally approved of inmates' treatment, and Arpaio said he's just doing his job. His critics, he said, are the ones out of touch and gunning for publicity.

"It's the same little group of people that try to get me defeated. Well, I was just re-elected for the fifth time. The people like what I'm doing," Arpaio said.

Producer Scott Satin, the show's creator whose credits include "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" on the Sci-Fi Channel, said he considered multiple law enforcement agencies before settling on Arpaio's.

"I just think he's quite the character and he's great on camera. Sheriff Joe, he's willing to go out and get these guys and do whatever he takes," Satin said.

For Arpaio, it was hard to see a down side to accepting the free resources. Producers paid for all the materials, Satin said, and it was up to deputies if they wanted to participate off the clock.

The program, which filmed episodes around metropolitan Phoenix last year, sent thousands of mailers from a phony promotional company offering a $300 prize to fugitives they considered low-level — not involved in violent crimes. Those who responded got invited to a staged event usually littered with tongue-in-cheek behind-bars references.

In one episode, "J.L. Thyme" limo service chauffeurs a wanted man to a Scottsdale nightclub. He is then coaxed into strutting down a catwalk for a new fashion line that also happens to include a black-and-white striped jailbird Halloween costume. Meanwhile, Arpaio is mainly seen watching from a nearby command center.

So far, three half-hour episodes are in the can. Depending on the ratings, the network is open to doing more, Satin said.

Arpaio also credits the mailings for at least 400 arrests due to fugitives still answering them after the show wrapped.

Every arrestee featured on the show must sign a release form giving the network permission to air the footage. So far, nobody hauled away on camera has refused.

"I think they wanted their 15 minutes, even if it was spent in handcuffs," Satin said. "Not one person tried to run or raised their voice. Their attitude was like when your brother plays a trick on you. I can't tell you how many times I heard 'That was a good one.'"


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

GO JOE !

[Jolie Rouge]

July 9, 2009 4:00 AM
A Pattern and Practice
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has a history of ideologically charged investigations.
By Hans A. von Spakovsky

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTA1ZDYyYzVjNmNiYWZlNzgxNDc4MGUyOTY1MjJlNzM=

There’s no shortage of opinion on whether Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has done anything wrong. Almost ignored, however, are the Justice Department lawyers investigating him. Yet their conduct raises serious questions — namely, have their liberal bias and apparently unethical tactics caused fundamental flaws in their investigation?

The Department’s Civil Rights Division is investigating how Arpaio, the Maricopa County sheriff, treats illegal immigrants when he arrests them. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is auditing his participation in a federal program — commonly referred to by its statutory citation, “287(g)” — that allows local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws. Arpaio, whose office is the largest participant in the DHS program, has been accused of improperly launching “crime sweeps in areas around Phoenix with high concentrations of Hispanics” as well as “separating” illegal immigrants from other inmates that he has arrested.

It’s impossible to know at this point whether any of the criticisms of Arpaio have merit. Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who wrote the legal guidelines for Arpaio’s crime-suppression operations, insists that that he isn’t “aware of any racial profiling in Arpaio’s crime and immigration sweeps” and notes that Arpaio has simply saturated neighborhoods deemed to be high-crime areas. Regardless, the Justice Department may have a lot more to answer for than Arpaio.

Arizona is on the front lines of the immigration crisis confronting the American Southwest. As thousands of illegal immigrants flood across the border — many engaging in violent and drug-related crimes, choking the local court systems and otherwise imposing heavy economic costs on Arizona communities — Arpaio has been a visible force in local enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Not surprisingly, Arpaio has incurred the wrath of those on the left who oppose immigration enforcement in general, and especially local enforcement of federal immigration laws. Many would like to see the 287(g) program terminated. Unfortunately, the Civil Rights Division’s Special Litigation Section (SPL), which initiated the investigation of Maricopa County, appears hell-bent on aiding these groups’ efforts. SPL has a bad track record enforcing poorly defined and constitutionally questionable legal standards, and it has already been accused of unethical conduct in this case.

The problems started several months ago. In February, Democratic Reps. John Conyers, Zoe Lofgren, Jerrold Nadler, and Bobby Scott demanded that the Department of Justice investigate Sheriff Arpaio for “discriminatory” police practices toward illegal aliens, despite having no evidence of such behavior. (Two House Judiciary subcommittees have already held hearings on Arpaio’s conduct and found no actual proof of wrongdoing) The Civil Rights Division launched an investigation within a month. This rushed approval is ironic, given Conyers’s obsessive plaints about the “politicization” of Justice in the Bush administration.

SPL has a long history of harassing law-enforcement agencies. Part of the reason for this abuse is that the federal law governing SPL’s jurisdiction — 42 U.S.C. § 14141 — is so nebulous. Congress adopted this statute in 1994 in the wake of the Rodney King case. It allows the Justice Department to investigate law-enforcement agencies that have engaged in a “pattern or practice” of unconstitutional or unlawful conduct.

But the statute doesn’t define “pattern or practice” or the time period over which such a “pattern or practice” must occur. As a result, SPL has almost no standards (and no limits) under which it conducts its investigations. Enforcement is typically left to the vagaries of the biased liberal career attorneys who populate the Section, few (if any) of whom appreciate the extraordinary demands under which local law-enforcement officials toil.

On rare occasions, local police departments have established practices that are unlawful. For example, in 2002, Detroit was detaining witnesses for questioning without probable cause, an obvious violation of the law. Similarly, prior to 2004, the police department in Prince George’s County, Md., was training its dogs to bite before barking, needlessly inflicting injuries on suspects.

Far more often, however, SPL predicates an investigation on a handful of unconnected and isolated incidents separated by big gaps in time. If there are a few alleged acts of unlawful conduct over a several-year period in a department of thousands, does that really constitute a pattern or practice of intentional behavior? No reasonable person would think so, but the lawyers in SPL would.

Moreover, one of the Civil Rights Division’s little-known secrets — one that should concern many Americans — is that SPL attorneys, to justify opening an invasive investigation, typically do little more than troll through newspaper articles or contact the local ACLU or NAACP chapter to find complaints.

In other words, an attorney who wants to make life miserable for a particular police department is entrusted with enormous power to do that. So when a radical like Conyers harrumphs that “something must be done,” it should come as no shock that an ideologically receptive SPL lawyer is often only too happy to be his stooge.

In fact, the deputy section chief assigned to the Maricopa County case admitted to Arpaio’s lawyer that “media reports,” not actual evidence of any violations of the law, provided the only basis for the investigation. The Department of Homeland Security, which started its audit at almost the same time that the DOJ investigation began, admitted to the same lawyer that it had no record of any complaints about Maricopa’s conduct in administering the 287(g) program.

But Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano certainly has a contentious history with Arpaio. When she was governor of Arizona, she cut off his state funding to pursue illegal immigrants. As Maricopa’s lawyer, Bob Driscoll, has argued, when one law-enforcement agency becomes subject to several federal investigations in a matter of weeks immediately after a shift of political control in Washington, it seems to suggest that politics played a role in the decision.

( continues...)

[Jolie Rouge]

The chances that SPL will conduct an unbiased review are practically nil. Once SPL opens up an investigation, it almost always finds violations amounting to a “pattern or practice” of unconstitutional or unlawful conduct. One former Division lawyer recalls that early in the Bush administration, a civil-rights inquiry into the Miami-Dade Police Department yielded insufficient evidence to justify continuing a “pattern and practice” investigation. This outcome was so unusual and unprecedented that the SPL chief at the time, Steven Rosenbaum, refused to sign a letter acknowledging the absence of any constitutional violations. Rosenbaum said it was not DOJ’s obligation to clear up the cloud that had gathered over the jurisdiction because of adverse publicity over the investigation.

Rosenbaum is now in the front office of the Civil Rights Division, temporarily occupying what is usually a political slot, advising the acting assistant attorney general and supervising the Maricopa County investigation. (Coincidentally, the deputy assistant attorney general who had to sign the letter to Miami-Dade after Rosenbaum’s insubordination was Bob Driscoll, who now represents Maricopa County.) In short, SPL will find something to complain about.

Another fundamental problem with SPL investigations is that the SPL attorneys (none of whom has any training in investigatory techniques) almost always credit the complaints of aggrieved citizens without question. Anyone who has experience with the criminal-justice system (or, for that matter, has watched an episode of Cops) knows that criminals frequently lie to extricate themselves from a legal bind. When SPL attorneys who are inclined to believe the very worst about law enforcement routinely assess such complaints as true, the police will be chilled from performing their job in the manner best able to protect the community.

As you might guess, most of the attorneys who inhabit SPL are extremely liberal. The deputy chief handling most police-misconduct investigations (including this one) is a former public defender in Maryland. One of SPL’s lawyers was actually arrested during a mass demonstration in Washington in 2002 protesting “globalization” at the IMF and World Bank. (The D.C. government later settled a lawsuit she filed against the city’s police department.)

More incredible still, the attorney assigned to the Maricopa County investigation, Je Yon Jung, is an active member and former national governing-board representative of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, a left-wing organization that believes all “undocumented” immigrants should be granted citizenship. Ms. Jung maxed out in contributions to President Obama’s campaign and recently applied for a judgeship in the District of Columbia — a position to which President Obama will appoint a candidate.

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to guess the attitudes of these career lawyers toward the police, and particularly anyone enforcing federal immigration laws. Keep in mind as well that in April the Justice Department issued a “100 Day Progress Report,” in which it treated the mere decision to open the Maricopa County investigation (with no evidence of any wrongdoing) as an “accomplishment” in the “revitalization” of the Department’s civil-rights efforts.

Would an obviously ambitious attorney who has applied for a presidential appointment really want to disappoint or embarrass her political leadership by finding that there was no violation of the law — when they have already taken credit for the investigation as a civil-rights victory? She has, in fact, already been accused of unethical conduct by Maricopa attorney Driscoll, for not revealing to the county’s in-house counsel that SPL was coordinating its investigation with the Department of Homeland Security. Her deception was designed to get witness statements and documentation directly from Maricopa County employees through the completely separate DHS audit, even though she knew Maricopa County was represented by counsel.

In other words, Justice was using agents of DHS to contact and interview represented parties without any legal authorization or consent from their lawyers. This behavior violates professional rules of conduct. Under the District of Columbia’s bar rules, “a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a person known to be represented by another lawyer in the matter.”

Jung also appears to have used Homeland Security’s audit to surreptitiously obtain information she could not obtain through the SPL investigation, because Section 14141 does not endow DOJ with subpoena power. The Ethical Standards for Attorneys for the Government make it clear that when an attorney does not have the authority or right to engage in an activity, the government cannot delegate or direct an agent to do so either.

Unidentified lawyers in the Civil Rights Division also called the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, apparently trying to get information about its dealings with Maricopa County. This might sound innocuous, but the federal law that established the CRS specifically mandates that all information obtained in its community-service work is “confidential,” and that none of its employees can “engage in the performance of investigative or prosecuting functions.” Thus, lawyers in the Division were trying to get CRS lawyers to break federal law by divulging confidential information. Driscoll has asked DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate this unethical conduct. (OPR was certainly quick enough to open up such investigations during the prior administration.)

Fortunately for SPL, it almost never has to prove its factual findings in court, a situation that effectively allows the Section’s lawyers to make whatever unproven accusations they want with no repercussions of any kind. Indeed, SPL has never had to defend in court its determinations of what constitutes a “pattern or practice.” The Section’s usual reliance on hearsay evidence, newspaper reports, and congressional complaints would be highly unlikely to satisfy the federal rules of evidence. Moreover, by the definition of “pattern or practice” that the Supreme Court established in the context of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — according to which a “pattern or practice” must consist of more than “sporadic discriminatory acts” — many (if not most) of SPL’s investigations would be quickly thrown out.

Unfortunately, most law-enforcement agencies are afraid to challenge the Civil Rights Division, even when its claims are completely bogus, for fear of both the adverse publicity and the extraordinary cost of battling a litigant with unlimited taxpayer-provided resources. On one of the only occasions when a police department did stand up to the Division (United States v. City of Columbus, Ohio), a federal judge threw out the Division’s claims, but most cities have not been so bold, and have simply agreed to consent orders that get no real review by federal judges.

The Civil Rights Division is also parachuting in its attorneys from the Coordination and Review Section (one of whose staff lawyers is a former illegal alien) to probe whether Sheriff Arpaio has engaged in “national origin discrimination” against illegal aliens, including failing to provide “meaningful access” to county services for “limited English proficient” inmates. What is the basis for this claim? Apparently, the Division equates the failure to provide translation services to illegal aliens with “national origin discrimination.” This interpretation, however, has no valid statutory or constitutional foundation.

Local jurisdictions are under no obligation to provide services in any language other than English. That many states and municipalities provide their services in the common language of our culture is not national-origin discrimination. But the Civil Rights Division mistakenly believes that the lack of translation services has a “disparate impact” and thus violates regulations issued pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an executive order issued by President Clinton.

This was the argument that the Division pressed before the Supreme Court in December 2000 in Alexander v. Sandoval, which involved Alabama’s refusal to provide driver’s-license tests in languages other than English. The Supreme Court rejected the argument in April 2001, holding that it would make no sense “to say that disparate-impact regulations” properly implement Title VI when the statute bans only intentional discrimination on the basis of national origin.

The general attitude that I encountered when working with the career lawyers in the Division mirrors the attitude of radical groups like La Raza and MALDEF — they believe in open borders and no enforcement of our immigration laws. Given that President Obama’s nominee to head the Division, Thomas Perez, is the former head of Casa de Maryland, an advocacy organization for illegal aliens that has fought the enforcement of our immigration laws, he will no doubt be delighted with this investigation.

Again, it is impossible to tell from the news accounts whether Sheriff Arpaio actually violated any federal civil-rights laws while participating in the 287(g) program. But there is strong evidence that this investigation was instigated for ideological (and perhaps political) reasons. And given the history of the Civil Rights Division, Sheriff Arpaio’s chances of getting a fair and impartial investigation are about as great as those of the Washington Redskins’ winning next year’s Super Bowl.

— Hans A. von Spakovsky is a legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation. He is a former member of the Federal Election Commission and a former counsel in the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department.

[ilovecats]

America's toughest sheriff?I think we need a few thousand more just like him.

[gmyers]

He doing a good job and I hope they keep electing him. Maybe what he does will discourage crooks from coming back to prison again. At least in his state. They need to do something with the rest of the prisons. I watch those shows on tv that talk about how the gang members are doing all kinds of violence to each other and ordering hits and crimes from prison. I'd take away their visitors where they couldn't get drugs smuggled in. And if they continued to fight every time they go outside they wouldn't go outside anymore or just a few at a time. They need to keep the different gang members away from each other. Let them out at different time.

[ilovecats]

He doing a good job and I hope they keep electing him. Maybe what he does will discourage crooks from coming back to prison again. At least in his state. They need to do something with the rest of the prisons. I watch those shows on tv that talk about how the gang members are doing all kinds of violence to each other and ordering hits and crimes from prison. I'd take away their visitors where they couldn't get drugs smuggled in. And if they continued to fight every time they go outside they wouldn't go outside anymore or just a few at a time. They need to keep the different gang members away from each other. Let them out at different time.

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times.It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates.If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison.BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.

[fleabones3]

I agree with everyone else, we need more Sherriff Joe's. A few years ago our sherriff finally got busted. He had been one of the biggest drug dealers in town for years. They found a meth lab in his off duty car. My friend used to party with one of his daughters and when they would run out of drugs, they would go to his stash..

My son works 7 miles out of town.. and 3 days in a row I have been pretty much been " stalked" by the police.. I mean they will follow me for pretty much the whole drive. One day the cop was in front of me and 2 more cars in front of him..he actually PULLED Over and let me in front of him and then followed me for 6 miles. Scared the chit out of me ... next time I am pulling over and say " I insist, you go first " or " can I help you, are you lost"...

anyways... the whole damn justice system is corrupt, as is our goverment, our city leaders and any other orginization.. someone should come in and clean house on all of them

[gmyers]

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times.It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates.If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison.BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.

I guess it depends on the prison. They showed how they hid drugs in postcards and other things on the prison show I watched. But I bet you're right the guards or someone that works there does it.

[DBackFan]

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times.It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates.If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison.BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.


My long ago ex got drugs all the time in prison. His girlfriend hid them in a balloon inside her...so yes it is done all the time, here anyway.

[Jolie Rouge]

Advocate uses texting to warn of AZ crime sweeps
Sun Jan 3, 6:50 pm ET

PHOENIX – An advocate for immigrant and civil rights has started using text messages to warn residents about crime sweeps by a high-profile Arizona sheriff.

Lydia Guzman, director of the nonprofit immigrant advocacy group Respect/Respeto, is the trunk of a sophisticated texting tree designed to alert thousands of people within minutes to the details of the sweeps, which critics contend are an excuse to round up illegal immigrants.

Guzman said the messages are part of an effort to protect Latinos and others from becoming victims of racial profiling by sheriff's deputies. Deputies have been accused of stopping Hispanics, including citizens and legal immigrants, for minor traffic violations to check their immigration status.

"Everyone is responsible for sending it out to their own networks, and that is how it spreads like wildfire," Guzman said of the text messages.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has repeatedly said his deputies do not engage in racial profiling, and he publicizes the details of his crime sweeps ahead of time. He said he suspects the real goal of the text messages is to help illegal immigrants avoid arrest.

"This little group of people is (in favor of) open borders, and they don't like what I am doing. That is the bottom line," Arpaio said. "But it isn't interfering with our operations because every time we do it, we still arrest a good number of people, including illegal aliens."

Arpaio has conducted 13 sweeps since March 2008, and deputies have arrested 669 people, about half of whom were held on immigration violations.

The sheriff said his opponents are walking a line between exercising free speech and breaking the law by helping immigration violators avoid detection. He said the texts are possibly even tipping off human-smuggling organizations.

Guzman said she sends the messages to a wide range of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Copwatch and various immigrant-rights groups such as Somos America and Puente. She concedes that some who receive the text messages likely use the information to avoid being caught and deported.

Andy Hessick, a constitutional law professor at Arizona State University, said sending warnings to people who might be subject to racial profiling would likely be considered free speech. But sending messages with the specific intent of warning illegal immigrants to help them avoid arrest could be akin to being an accomplice after a crime.

David Hudson Jr., a First Amendment scholar at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, said the messages are protected free speech because they are merely letting people know what Arpaio is doing, similar to publicizing DUI checkpoints and speed traps or flashing your headlights when police are nearby.

"That is not unlawful," he said. "It's the conveyance of truthful information."

___

Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com



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...which critics contend are an excuse to round up illegal immigrants.

If they are here illegally, they are committing a crime ... what other "excuse" is needed ?

[gmyers]

To me she's breaking the law by warning them. I don't think its just free speech. If she wants all the illegals here then let her and her group support them.

[Jolie Rouge]

To me she's breaking the law by warning them. I don't think its just free speech.

I agree. If i were to text some engaged in a criminal activity ... say robbery or B&E ... and told them the cops were on their way, I could be charged as an accessory or aiding & abetting, right ??



If she wants all the illegals here then let her and her group support them.
To people like her, that is the job of Big Nanny Goverment .. and our tax dollars.

[pepperpot]

Lydia Guzman, director of the nonprofit immigrant advocacy group Respect/Respeto, is the trunk of a sophisticated texting tree designed to alert thousands of people within minutes to the details of the sweeps, which critics contend are an excuse to round up illegal immigrants.
Why do they need an excuse? They are illegal (<---key work here), round them up.:agree

[whatever]

How bout she just goes to there country? Then she wouldn't have to warn them.

[dv8grl]

Officials confirm probe of AZ sheriff, his office
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/ap_on_re_us/us_ariz_sheriff_grand_jury
PHOENIX – Two top county officials said Thursday night they have been subpoenaed to answer questions next week before a federal grand jury about a high-profile Arizona sheriff and his office.

In statements read by a county spokesman, Maricopa County Manager David Smith and Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson said they met with a federal prosecutor to discuss the case and will testify Wednesday.

Wilson said the general subject of the inquiry was abuses by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office. Neither Wilson nor Smith offered specifics, said county spokesman Richard de Uriarte, who spoke with the two officials Thursday night.

Sheriff's spokesman Brian Lee said Arpaio was declining to comment on reports of the investigation. "He has stated that we will conduct business as usual," Lee said.

Sandy Raynor, a spokeswoman for the U.S attorney's office in Phoenix, said she couldn't confirm or deny a grand jury investigation.

Arpaio and an ally are embroiled in nasty legal disputes with county officials and judges. Two county supervisors and one county judge have been criminally charged in investigations by Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas.

Last month, Arpaio and Thomas filed a federal racketeering lawsuit against a group of county administrators, judges and attorneys, accusing them of participating in a conspiracy to hinder an investigation into a $341 million court building under construction in Phoenix and the investigation of Supervisor Don Stapley.

Arpaio is widely known for tough jail policies and pushing the bounds on local immigration efforts. He has led a dozen crime and immigration sweeps, some in heavily Latino areas.

Critics allege that some of Arpaio's deputies racially profiled people during immigration sweeps. But Arpaio maintains that people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes.

He was told in March that his office is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio had said he believed the investigation was spurred by his immigration efforts.

Last year, Arpaio was stripped of some of his special authority to make federal immigration arrests, though he retains some federal power that allows his jail officers to speed up deportations.

A half-day after his powers were limited, he launched a crime and immigration sweep and has since continued his enforcement of state laws banning immigrant smuggling and prohibiting businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

[Jolie Rouge]

Judge finds grounds to sanction Arizona sheriff
By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Writer
2 hrs 8 mins ago

PHOENIX – A federal judge has found grounds for sanctioning an Arizona sheriff's office for its acknowledged destruction of records in a lawsuit that accuses deputies of racially profiling countless Hispanics in immigration patrols.

U.S. District Judge Murray Snow held off on imposing the sanctions against the office of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Friday ruling, but indicted he would do so at a later date once related issues were ironed out.

Since early 2008, Arpaio has run 13 immigration and crimes sweeps consisting of deputies and posse volunteers who flood an area of a city — in some cases heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders.

The handful of Latinos who filed the lawsuit against Arpaio's office alleged that officers based some traffic stops on the race of Hispanics who were in vehicles, had no probable cause to pull them over and made the stops so they could inquire about their immigration status.

Arpaio is known for tough jail policies, including housing inmates in canvas tents, and pushing the bounds for how local law enforcement agencies can confront illegal immigration.

The U.S. Justice Department said it's investigating his office for alleged discrimination and for unconstitutional searches and seizures, but won't provide any details of its examination. The sheriff believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration efforts.

Arpaio has repeatedly denied the racial profiling allegations, saying people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes. It was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants, he has said.

Some sheriff's officials have acknowledged deleting their e-mails about the patrols and throwing away and shredding officers' records of traffic stops made during the sweeps.

Snow said the sheriff's office was negligent for not holding onto the documents and that the failure to preserve them is enough to justify sanctions. The judge asked plaintiff's attorneys to suggest unspecified "adverse inferences" that could be drawn from the destruction of officers' records of traffic stops made during the sweeps.

Peter Kozinets, one of those attorneys, said Saturday that the document destruction deprived his clients of records that would have shown deputies were selective in whom they approached during the sweeps.

The sheriff's office said the destruction was an honest error that sprung from a top official not telling others in his office to preserve the documents.

The office also said the traffic-stop records were thrown away after supervisors tabulated statistics from them and that thousands of other documents have been handed over.

"We thought the ruling was extremely fair and we are pleased to cooperate," said Dave Hendershott, chief deputy of the sheriff's office. "It clearly shows that the judge understood that it was an unintentional oversight. We are very pleased with the ruling."

Snow also said that plaintiff's attorneys can again depose Arpaio to question him about his own 800-page immigration file, which was covered by a documents request but wasn't handed over before his first deposition in mid-December.

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On the Net:

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, http://www.mcso.org/


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_immigration_sweeps

[gmyers]

How are you going to find illegal aliens here if they say you're racial profiling when they're stopped or when businesses are raided.. The illegals know our laws and take advantage of them. Or the people in the groups that are for them do anyway.

[Jolie Rouge]

It is only racial profiling to a point ... here in LA, TX, AZ ... most of our illegal population tend to Hispanic, mainly Mexico some South American. On the West Coast, Mexco, Pacific Islanders, Asians; FL, AL, GA ... Cuba and the Caribean. Upper East Coast has more Eastern European and so on and so forth. Is it "racial profiling" or "Geographic Profiling" ?

[justme23]

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times.It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates.If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison.BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.

I don't know what state you live in... but NOTHING is impossible. Period. My cousin just came out of prison after being there for several years (and was her 4th time in). While the large majority of things smuggled in DOES come from the guards... they get PLENTY of stuff smuggled in from visitors. These ppl are beyond ingenius when it comes to hiding stuff!

[ahippiechic]

My friend is in prison here in AZ and his GF has been smuggling in cigs for him for a long time.

[boopster]

I think we could eliminate a lot of this profiling of illegals if our government showed them the exit sign and also appealed the 14th amendment.

[Jolie Rouge]

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times. It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates. If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison. BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.

That may be the case with the prison that you are familar with ... and it may be the case with every single one in your state ... but that doesn't mean it is true EVERYWHERE.



I think we could eliminate a lot of this profiling of illegals if our government showed them the exit sign and also appealed the 14th amendment.

The reason for the 14th amendment was to shield the newly freed slaves from retaliation and discrimination at the end of the Civil War; that is no longer the case. The Amendment is now used to shield and protect illegal activities and protect those who have a financial interest in the status quo.

[Jolie Rouge]

AZ sherriff: DOJ attack on Arpaio an attempt to distract from Fast and Furious
The Daily CallerBy Matthew Boyle – 3 hrs ago

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., said that Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent attacks on his colleague, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., were an attempt to take public attention off of Operation Fast and Furious. “The fact [that the Department of Justice] chose today to release their findings was only done to take the attention away from themselves,” Babeu said in a press release, according to Sonoran News. “Today marks the one year anniversary since the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.”

Holder’s DOJ announced on December 15 that it “had reasonable cause to believe” Arpaio’s office was discriminating against Latinos.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s “systematic disregard for basic constitutional protections has created a wall of distrust between the sheriff’s office and large segments of the community, which dramatically compromises the ability to protect and serve the people,” Thomas Perez, assistant atorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.

On Dec. 15, 2010, Terry was murdered with Operation Fast and Furious weapons. Babeu said that he is suspicious because the DOJ released the details of its three-year investigation “within 12 hours of the Terry family having announced they want justice against all of those responsible for Operation Fast and Furious.”

Mere hours before the DOJ took the findings of its Arpaio investigation public, Terry’s family called for criminal charges to be filed against all responsible for Operation Fast and Furious and for Terry’s murder, including Obama administration officials. Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by the DOJ. It sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchase guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.

At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown.

http://news.yahoo.com/az-sherriff-doj-attack-arpaio-attempt-distract-fast-130305496.html

Yahoo has disabled the comments on this article...

[pepperpot]

Yahoo has disabled the comments on this article...
Hmmmmm........

[lorddaino]

Hmmmmm........

No surprise there...

[hblueeyes]

Transparency at its best.

Me

[Jolie Rouge]

Obama Fanatic’ Threatens to Fill AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio With a ‘Thousand Bullet Holes,’ Deputy Chief Interviewed
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:24pm by Tiffany Gabbay

A “fanatical supporter” of President Barack Obama has been taken into custody and is now the prime suspect in the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio death threat investigation. The diligent team at 550KFYI alerted The Blaze that 33-year-old Adam Eugene Cox was arrested in Tennessee Friday on an unrelated warrant for assault. Cox said he planned to brutally slay Arpaio and his family, vowing the Sheriff ”will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out.”

“I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama,” Cox declared.

The following is a statement released by the Sheriff’s Office:


Deputies in Knoxville, Tennessee working with Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies today served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence from the home of Adam Eugene Cox, 33, after an investigation into an internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to light in
October, 2011.

Cox was arrested today and taken into custody on an unrelated warrant for assault and is being investigated as the prime suspect in the Arpaio death threat investigation.

In that threat, Cox stated Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family would be killed.

The suspect’s threats read in part:


“I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff‘s Office said the suspect’s postings indicate he is a fervent Obama supporter and that Arpaio‘s ongoing investigation into the legitimacy of the president’s birth certificate may have been the catalyst behind the death threat.

According to MCSO officials in the written statement, Cox’s mother confirmed her son is a fanatical supporter of Obama.

Knoxville deputies said Cox has a history of assault. “I will not be intimated against pursuing this investigation into Obama’s eligibility to serve as the president of the United States,” Arpaio said.

Listen to Deputy Chief Dave Trombi from The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office talk about the investigation with Mike Broomhead. The interview took place late Friday afternoon. http://www.kfyi.com/player/?mid=21769792

An entire copy of the Sheriff’s Office statement can be found at KFYI. http://www.kfyi.com/pages/broomhead.html?article=9678286

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-fanatic-threatens-to-fill-az-sheriff-joe-arpaio-with-a-thousand-bullet-holes-deputy-chief-interviewed/


comments

Is this guy responding to the Obamanations orders to get in their face! or if they bring a knife we will bring a gun ?

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I wonder how much coverage the msm will give this story? I would bet not much, if any, and the spin will somehow end up being that it‘s Arpaio’s fault.

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“His mother confirmed” … Was there ever a doubt that he didn‘t live at home in mommy’s basement?

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Hey, dems.... How’s that new civility working out for you? If this guy even read Sara Palin’s book, you can bet this would be front page news every night.
Hello? NBC, CBS, ABC? CNN, MSNBC? Anybody there?

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As long as he doesn’t shoot a t-shirt with obama on it, he is fine…

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The State of Georgia is already F*ing with Obama:

http://www.conservativeamericaonline.blogspot.com/2012/01/georgia-court-told-obama-slam-dunk.html

Let’s see if he can get on the ballot there. Call your local state election office and inform them that Barry is not qualified to be on the ballot.

Not that he wants to be, this is all a ruse anyway to get us to vote for a RINO.

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I’m sure the DOJ will say there is not enough evidence and let him go free! You know the drill, just like when the Black Panthers stood in front of the voting doorway with billy clubs! Not like the DOJ will ever prosecute anything having to do with the other side! Absolute Corruption Corrupts Absolutely! With them it is only social justice!

[Jolie Rouge]

[bArizona sheriff probes Obama's birth certificate[/b]
By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago

PHOENIX (AP) — America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff finds himself entangled these days in his own thorny legal troubles: a federal grand jury probe over alleged abuse of power, Justice Department accusations of racial profiling and revelations that his department didn't adequately investigate hundreds of Arizona sex-crime cases. Rather than seek cover, though, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is seeking to grab the spotlight in the same unorthodox fashion that has helped boost his career as a nationally known lawman.

Arpaio scheduled a news conference Thursday to unveil preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his volunteer cold-case posse, into the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, a controversy that has been widely debunked but which remains alive in the eyes of some conservatives. Last year, Donald Trump most prominently revived the issue while entertaining a possible bid for the presidency.

The 79-year-old Republican sheriff has declined to offer clues to what the probe may have found — but defends his need to spearhead such an investigation after nearly 250 people connected to an Arizona tea party group requested one last summer. "I'm not going after Obama," said Arpaio, who has criticized the president's administration for cutting off his federal immigration powers and conducting a civil rights investigation of his office. "I'm just doing my job."

Some critics suggest Arpaio's aim is to divert attention from his own legal troubles while raising his political profile as he seeks a sixth term this year. The sheriff vehemently denies such strategies are in play. "You say I need this to get elected? Are you kidding me? I've been elected five times. I don't need this," he said in a recent interview.

Democratic state Sen. Steve Gallardo said Arpaio is pandering to relentless critics of the president. "It doesn't matter what President Obama does, they'll never support him," Gallardo said. "It's those folks who will continue to write checks to Sheriff Joe because of this stuff."

Arpaio's probe comes amid a federal grand jury investigation into the sheriff's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009, focusing on the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department has accused Arpaio's office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish. Arpaio denies the allegations and said the investigation is politically motivated.

Critics also have sought Arpaio's resignation for more than 400 sex-crimes cases over a three-year period ending in 2007 that were either inadequately investigated or weren't investigated at all by the sheriff's office after the crimes were reported. The sheriff's office said the backlog was cleared up after the problem was brought to Arpaio's attention.

Speculation about Obama's birthplace has swirled among conservatives for years. "Birthers" maintain that Obama is ineligible to hold the country's highest elected office because, they contend, he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. Some contend Obama's birth certificate must be a fake. Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama's citizenship, and Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate in April in an attempt to quell citizenship questions. Courts also have rebuffed lawsuits over the issue. Of late, the president's re-election campaign has poked fun at it, selling coffee cups with a picture of the president's birth record.

Arpaio has said he took deliberate steps to avoid the appearance that his investigation is politically motivated. Instead of using taxpayer money, the sheriff armed it out to lawyers and retired police officers who are volunteers in a posse that examines cold cases. Other posses assist deputies in duties that include providing free police protection at malls during the holiday season or transporting people to jail.

Even as he is under fire by the federal government, the sheriff remains popular among Republicans.

GOP presidential candidates have courted him for his endorsement throughout the primary season. At last week's GOP presidential debate in Arizona, Arpaio won loud cheers. During a question about Arizona's border woes, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said the government ought to give local police agencies the chance to enforce immigration law as Arpaio has.

Bruce Merrill, a longtime pollster and senior research fellow at Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy, said the subject of the investigation plays to the sheriff's base of supporters. And, he said, it highlights Arpaio's gift for publicity. "It's something that the press will cover," Merrill said. "He'll get a lot of exposure from it."

http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriff-probes-obamas-birth-certificate-090616118.html

[Jolie Rouge]

Hundreds rally to back hard-line Arizona sheriff
By Tim Gaynor | Reuters – 20 hrs ago

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona (Reuters) - As many as 200 activists, some chanting "go Joe, go Joe," rallied in Arizona on Saturday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling probe for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.

"Sheriff Joe is one of the very few guys who will enforce the immigration laws across this nation," said Randy Hatch, who used a megaphone to rally supporters of Arpaio at a park in this northeast Phoenix valley city. "Every constitution and country that has ever existed has had to have sovereign borders," he said to cheers from the crowd, some clutching placards reading "Sheriff Joe keeps us safe" and "illegal is illegal."

Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," is a resident of Fountain Hills.

Earlier this month the Obama administration said it was preparing to sue Arpaio and his department "for violating civil rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos."

The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the federal government for targeting his department while failing to confront the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live and work throughout the nation. Arpaio supporter Buffalo Rick Galeener slammed the probe, which began under former President George W. Bush in 2008, as "politically motivated."

"For me it's just a big waste of money and all political," Galeener, who had a .38 revolver in a holster on his hip, said at the rally. "It's been going on for three and a half years ... they've been digging and digging and digging, and they still can't find anything to charge him with," he added.

The rally came amid heightened tension over immigration in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week over a partially blocked state law that targeted illegal immigrants. Signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in 2010, the law requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being in the country illegally. It was among measures blocked by a federal judge before it took effect.

Arpaio has also been under fire for his treatment of prisoners in his jails. Last month, a federal appeals court noted that a requirement that inmates wear pink underwear may be unconstitutional when applied to those not convicted of a crime. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took up the policy in reinstating a lawsuit against Arpaio and Maricopa County by the estate of a mentally ill man who died of heart problems in 2001, weeks after being forcibly dressed in the underwear. Supporters, though, said Arpaio's tough treatment of detainees worked. "He doesn't want you to return so it's not going to be a pleasant experience " said Mark Renner, 50, who said he had served time in the Maricopa County jail system.

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-rally-back-hard-line-arizona-sheriff-064138970.html

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Hiring an illegal should be as illegal as selling crack,no jobs, no money,no more illegals.

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To avoid being racist America should enact the same immigration rules that Mexico has...

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I wonder if we don't enforce auto theft laws, if our auto insurance rates will go down?

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I'd bet that if you made the penalty for hiring an illegal a 2 year jail sentence and $50,000 fine,...per offense,... you'd only have a fraction of the problem.

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My darling, handsome son, by his own admission, was a (little) drunk when he was stopped by police in Scottsdale. 2 weeks later, another DUI. The arresting officer said, "son, you ain't gonna like Tent City. Sure enough, a wise judge gave him 30 days and off to Tent City and pink shorts, he went. In July yet! That was 33 years ago. My son credits Sheriff Joe Arpaio for straightening his know it all attitude. Rules are rules-if you don' t want to wear pink panties, you best follow the rules

Thank you Sheriff Joe, from a grateful parent!

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it's puzzling to my why the fed gov won't enforce our immigration laws and want to punish those that have took an oath to enforce the law. I think sheriff is doing the job he was elected to do. It would be a good thing if congress would do the job they were elect to do.

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Having even just 11 million illegal aliens living and working in America, is pure fraud against the taxpayer, and the man who's job they take.

[Jolie Rouge]

Sheriff Joe: ‘I’ll Put Up More Tents’ If Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law
By John Hill on May 2, 2012

If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Arizona’s tough immigration bill, the Obama attorney arguing against S.B. 1070 predicted “mass incarceration” of “Latinos” – illegal aliens, in Arizona.

But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that would be “no problem” – he’s got room for them in “Tent City”. “We lock up people all the time,” Arpaio said in a phone interview. “Since I started enforcement, we’ve arrested on the streets, investigated – in our jails over 51,000. I didn’t see any problem, other than the fact that some activists and politicians in Washington (don’t) like me enforcing the illegal immigration law,” Arpaio said. “And by the way, if they think that it will overcrowd the jails, I’m not concerned. I got room in the tents. I got plenty of room…I’ll put more tents up,” Arpaio said. “So that should never be an excuse (that) you can’t house these people.”

Arpaio’s department apprehends a staggering 25% of ALL illegal aliens captured in the entire United States each year. And since over 70% of those illegals were headed for states other than Arizona when caught, the Sheriff and his deputies protect all Americans with their operations – a good reason why cynical politicians who want those votes want Arpaio stopped. That is why George Soros-funded groups have pledged to spend $10 million to defeat Arpaio for re-election this year.

The Obama Administration is desperate to stop the landmark Arizona immigration law – and the states which have copied it. During oral arguments before the high court on the law – which allows state police to check the immigration status of individuals stopped, detained or arrested for other reasons – Solicitor General Donald Verrilli responded to Justice Antonin Scalia’s remarks that Arizona seems to be merely enacting laws that are already federal statutes. “Well, what I think they are going to do in Arizona is something quite extraordinary, that has significant, real and practical foreign relations effects,” Verrilli said. Scalia then mocked Verilli, asking if “we have to enforce our laws in a manner that will please Mexico?”

Scalia gets it. So does Sheriff Joe. We have borders, and laws, for a reason. And no amount of political manipulation is going to sway men and women of character. They will enforce the law. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is one such man. After S.B. 1070 was passed in April 2010, over 100,000 illegal aliens fled Arizona, in large part because of the efforts of Arpaio and his many deputies.

And if the Supreme Court upholds 1070 in June, we may well see another 100,000 flee in short order.

For those who choose to stay, don’t worry: there will always be plenty of room – and pink underwear – for you in Tent City.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/05/02/sheriff-joe-ill-put-up-more-tents-if-supreme-court-upholds-arizona-immigration-law/

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What is the issue with enforcing the law? Nothing. If I get stopped by DPS etc..., I am asked for my license, proof of Insurance, and registration; what is wrong with asking anybody for that if they are stopped for what ever reason? Nothing at all! The DPS officer will run a check on anybody pulled over their ID) to see if there are any warrents etc... and if it is a fake ID. What is wrong with that, nothing! If the person is here illegally, that is one charge, if the person is using a fake, false, or someone elses ID, that is another charge. I f Iwas 19 years old, got a fake, false, or someone elses ID, tried to by beer, and got caught by the police; I would be charged criminally. Can somebody tell me what the difference is if I break the law or an illegal alien does?

On the same idea, that young child comming accross the border with their parents did not have a choice. If that child goes to school, graduates, and stays out of trouble; they should be given teh oppertunity to enlist in the military and earn their citizenship. Upon being honorably discharged or re-enlisted you will have earned your citizenship. Just a thought

[Jolie Rouge]

Justice Dept. plans to sue Ariz. sheriff Arpaio
Controversial lawman denies allegations of racial profiling
By WALTER BERRY updated 5/9/2012 9:10:21 PM ET
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PHOENIX — Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos.

The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio's office to train officers in how to make constitutional traffic stops, collect data on people arrested in traffic stops and reach out to Latinos to assure them that the department is there to also protect them.

Arpaio has denied the racial profiling allegations and has claimed that allowing a court monitor would mean that every policy decision would have to be cleared through an observer and would nullify his authority.

DOJ officials told a lawyer for Arpaio on April 3 that the lawman's refusal of a court-appointed monitor was a deal-breaker that would end settlement negotiations and result in a federal lawsuit.

The "notice of intent to file civil action" came Wednesday from Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez in a letter to an Arpaio lawyer.

Perez, who heads the DOJ's civil rights division, noted that it's been more than 100 days since the sheriff's office received the DOJ's findings report and federal authorities haven't met with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office counsel since Feb. 6 to discuss the terms of a consent agreement.

Civil rights allegations
Neither Arpaio nor Joseph Popolizio, one of the lawyers representing the sheriff's office, immediately returned calls seeking comment. Last December, the DOJ released a scathing report accusing Arpaio's office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish in Arizona's most populous county.

The DOJ also accused Arpaio of having a culture of disregard for basic constitutional rights.

The civil rights allegations have led some Arpaio critics to call for his resignation, including the National Council of La Raza, a prominent advocacy group for Latinos.

The sheriff's office also is facing criticism over more than 400 sex-crimes investigations — including dozens of alleged child molestations — that hadn't been investigated adequately or weren't examined at all over a three-year period ending in 2007.

Arpaio has apologized for the botched cases, reopened 432 sex-crimes investigations and made 19 arrests.

Separate from the civil rights probe, a federal grand jury has been investigating Arpaio's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009. That grand jury is examining the investigative work of the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad.

The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America has been a national political fixture who has built his reputation on jailing inmates in tents and dressing them in pink underwear, selling himself to voters as unceasingly tough on crime and pushing the bounds of how far local police can go to confront illegal immigration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47363994/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[Jolie Rouge]

Justice Department Sues Sheriff Joe; Defiant Arpaio Says ‘Clean Your Own House’
By John Hill on May 10, 2012

Here we go.

Ever since Obama took office, opponents of illegal immigration knew it would come to this.

This Administration has already dismantled the enforcement regime against illegal aliens. They engineered a unilateral amnesty for nearly 2 million illegal aliens by a stroke of Obama’s pen last August. They sued to stop states like Arizona, Alabama and Georgia from enforcing existing immigration laws after the Feds failed to do so. The Attorney General has bullied states like Texas and South Carolina, by blocking voter ID laws designed to stop voter fraud by illegal aliens and others.

But no matter what they did, or who they bullied, there was always one individual who refused to back down: Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The Obama cabal’s intent to target Sheriff Joe was made clear early on, when on March 11, 2009 – at a time when most cabinet departments were barely even staffed – the DOJ announced a full investigation of Arpaio’s department for “discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures”. What evidence had they amassed after only 49 days in office? They revealed none.

But just six months before that, in September 2008, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) did its own exhaustive investigation of Arpaio’s office — and gave it a clean bill of health.

ICE said Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Sheriff and deputies were “professional”, had “met the requirements” of Federal guidelines, which included a ban on racial profiling.

They went on:

ICE investigators also interviewed top federal officials involved in illegal immigrant cases in Arizona. They found an “excellent” working relationship between the sheriff’s office and the feds. ICE talked as well to federal prosecutors in Phoenix, who described the cases brought by Maricopa County as “high quality.“

Yet just six months later, a barely-staffed DOJ accused Arpaio and his department of “discriminatory police practices”? What had changed? Nothing. It was pure politics. That’s all it is, all it ever was.

And so, this afternoon, after months of unsuccessfully trying to compel Sheriff Joe to cave in to their ridiculous demand to take over his department; and only 2 weeks after their humiliating beat-down in front of the U.S. Supreme Court over S.B. 1070, the Department of Justice sued Arpaio, his office, and Maricopa County, in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

Thomas Perez, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – yes, the same one which dropped a case of clear voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party in 2009, said


“The police are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not divide them. If you look Latino (in Maricopa County), you are fair game.”.

Perez is one of many former La Raza radicals who have been given faux legitimacy via their elevation to powerful positions in the Obama Administration – including Cecilia Munoz and Hilda Solis – and they play the dirtiest racial politics America has ever seen.

Sheriff Joe, who has become the nation’s most prominent symbol in the war against illegal immigration, wasted no time in striking back. In an interview, he defiantly blasted the Administration for their hypocrisy and corruption:


“Clean your own house, Eric Holder, before you come trying to clean mine,” Arpaio said. “This is a coordinated effort directed from the White House to deflect attention from Eric Holder’s failure to cooperate in the congressional investigation into Fast and Furious.”

“I won’t surrender,” Arpaio insisted, referring to the Justice Department’s demand to put federal monitors within the MCSO. “I intend to fight back.”

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/05/10/justice-department-sues-sheriff-joe-defiant-arpaio-says-clean-your-own-house/

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This is insane that the government lead by 'OBAMA' has tried to take down our sheriff for doing his job better than any other state has done. It's BULLYING at it's finest. Chicago thuggery!

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They are terrified of him- there are a lot of people who stand by Joe and they KNOW that if he does his job then Obama will get fewer illegal votes!!! It's disgusting the way they persecute this man for defending his state.

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I'm with Joe , Holder should be arrested!

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Joe should arrest Holder for illegal gun purchasing, and gun running in AZ.

[Jolie Rouge]

DOJ’s ‘Proof’ of Sheriff Joe’s ‘Racial Discrimination’ is Photo of a Chihuahua? Seriously?

If you needed a symbol of the utterly preposterous lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Maricopa County Sheriffs Department (MCSO), this may well be it.

On page 2 of the 32-page complaint, filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the Department of Justice references “insensitive” emails sent by MCSO employees. http://www.scribd.com/doc/93122473/Complaint The prima fascie evidence? Read for yourself…

MCSO supervisors involved in immigration enforcement have expressed anti-Latino bias, in one instance widely distributing an email that included a photograph of a Chihuahua dog dressed in swimming gear with the caption “A Rare Photo of a Mexican Navy Seal.”

In case you missed this shocking, vicious, racist, “anti-Latino” photograph when it made the rounds on the interwebs years ago, here it is…

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mexican-Navy-Seal.jpg

What kind of warped mind would see the harmless joke photo above as shockingly racist, but insist that two New Black Panther thugs with billy clubs, standing outside a Philly polling place on Election Day 2010, and shouting “What are you doing here, Cracker?” to a white poll-watcher, was not voter intimidation – and drop the case? Why Eric Holder’s DOJ Civil Rights Division, of course! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/ex-official-accuses-justice-department-racial-bias-black-panther-case/

PJMedia has a breakdown of the ultra-left wing activist DOJ lawyers who filed the suit. When you read their resumes, it all makes sense. These are 3 young lawyers who cut their teeth with some of the most radical non-profit groups in existence – and are steeped in the dirtiest racial politics America has ever seen.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/05/11/dojs-proof-of-sheriff-joes-racial-discrimination-is-photo-of-a-chihuahua-seriously/

Huh? Seriously? THIS is supposed to prove racist “bias” against all “Latinos”?

[pepperpot]

Huh? Seriously? THIS is supposed to prove racist “bias” against all “Latinos”?

Maybe they thought he was smuggling some mexicans, drugs or weapons in the canister on his back? :lol

[justme23]

I wish joe would run for pressie.

[hblueeyes]

Thanks. That photo made me laugh out loud.

Me

[Jolie Rouge]

Sheriff Joe’s Deputies Make Huge Meth Seizure, Arrest Two Illegals in Phoenix Bust
By John Hill on June 26, 2012

Just another day in Maricopa County, Arizona – the land that the Feds have all but abandoned to drug and human smugglers and cartel criminals. But thankfully, the state’s law enforcement officers will continue to deal with the results of Federal failure to secure the border – and protect its people no matter what roadblocks the corruptocrats in Washington place in their path.

Just one day after Obama ordered DHS to suspend all 287(g) cooperation with the entire state of Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies, during the investigation of a clandestine meth lab, seized 50 pounds of methamphetamines with an estimated street value worth $1.5 million dollars. Also seized was $25,000 in U.S. currency, a handgun, three vehicles, and one all-terrain vehicle from a west valley home.

Two illegal aliens, Saul Zuniga-Leon and Alejandro Mendoza-Enriquez, were arrested, and booked into the 4th Avenue Jail on drugs and weapons charges.

Sheriff Arpaio could not resist a well-deserved dig at Obama: “Clearly not everyone coming to this country illegally is looking for the American Dream. Some have bad intentions, as this arrest shows.”

Many have bad intentions, but that isn’t enough for Obama, who is abandoning Arpaio and his deputies to fend almost for themselves – denying them the assistance of ICE or DHS for most of the massive numbers of illegal aliens they detain every week. Arpaio’s officers apprehend an astonishing 25% of all illegals caught in the U.S. every year – most of whom are headed for states other than Arizona.

So when Obama abandons Arizona, he is also abandoning you and your family to the potential of thousands of additional alien criminals to reach your city or town, who otherwise might have been caught and stopped in Arizona – all to enable massive voter fraud this November. We must deal with this lawless cabal in D.C. for the next seven months, and only that long if they are defeated.

In the meanwhile, Sheriff Joe has made it clear – no matter what obstacles, illegal amnesty decrees, or insane withdrawal of Federal law enforcement assistance Obama inflicts on him, he will never stop doing his job: “I’m not stopping anything. I’m going to continue to enforce those laws regardless of what the federal government is trying (to do). I’m not going to bend to the federal government, especially when we still have state laws to enforce.”

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2012/06/26/sheriff-joes-deputies-make-huge-meth-seizure-arrest-two-illegals-in-phoenix-bust/



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Said Joe, in a well-deserved dig at Obama: “Clearly not everyone coming to this country illegally is looking for the American Dream. Some have bad intentions, as this arrest shows.”

WTG Joe!

[Jolie Rouge]

Jan Brewer: The Obama administration basically just told Arizona to drop dead
posted at 6:01 pm on June 26, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

After hearing the Supreme Court’s decision on the SB 1070 case on Monday morning, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s immediate reaction was quite positive: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/25/brewer-supreme-court-arizona-decision-victory-for-rule-law/


Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is a victory for the rule of law. It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens. After more than two years of legal challenges, the heart of SB 1070 can now be implemented in accordance with the U.S. Constitution.

While we are grateful for this legal victory, today is an opportunity to reflect on our journey and focus upon the true task ahead: the implementation and enforcement of this law in an even-handed manner that lives up to our highest ideals as American citizens. I know the State of Arizona and its law enforcement officers are up to the task. The case for SB 1070 has always been about our support for the rule of law. …

Shortly following the Supreme Court’s announcement that the meat of Arizona’s illegal immigration law is indeed constitutional, however, the Obama administration announced that they just don’t feel like cooperating with that decision, and they’re going to go out of their way to allay it. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/25/politics/immigration-administration-reaction/index.html


Obama administration officials said Monday the federal government would not become a willing partner in the state of Arizona’s efforts to arrest undocumented people — unless those immigrants meet federal government criteria. And they said the administration is rescinding agreements that allow some Arizona law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws.

The administration made the announcement hours after Monday’s Supreme Court decision on whether states can enforce immigration laws.

In a conference call with reporters, an administration official said the administration will not allow Arizona’s immigration priorities to become the Department of Homeland Security’s priorities.

The official said while DHS expected more calls from Arizona authorities, it will not increase staffing in Arizona to deal with them.


Gov. Brewer’s reaction to that second announcement was, understandably, somewhat less positive. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77831.html


“This is politics at its best,” she said. “It’s just unconscionable. What they said to Arizona is, ‘Drop dead, Arizona. Drop dead and go away. We’re going to ignore you.’” …

“It just is incomprehensible to think that this has all taken place today. And it ticks me off. I think that it should tick the people of America off,” she added. “And it’s almost become apparent that they can do whatever they darn well want! They don’t want to enforce their laws. They won’t let us help them enforce their laws.”

Yep, that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. The Supreme Court decided that the gist of what Arizona is trying to do is totally lawful, and then Obama’s DHS shot back with a unilateral, “Whatever, we do what we want.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/26/jan-brewer-the-obama-administration-basically-just-told-arizona-to-drop-dead/

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Reporter: President Obama, is it true that if you are reelected to the presidency you will work hard to see that a real fence is put up along the border with Mexico rather than just some phony so called “virtual fence”? And a follow up question sir, if so what will the physical fence look like?

President Obama: That is a very good question and yes when I am reelected I will see to it that a physical fence is put up along the border if I have to build it myself! . What will it look like? Well it will run the full length of the border and have special security gates every 100 feet. All the security gates will have on them:

1) Press one for Spanish (with a response of “Welcome Amigo, my country is your country and please take a free map to the wonderful plantation owner employer of your choice. Also please feel free to enroll you children in our schools and demand that they be taught in Spanish and please also feel free to avail yourself of all the free medical care that you want. If there are any Gringos in line in front of you, just go to the head of the line. If you want to fly any Mexican flags please feel free to just take down an American one and use it’s flag pole”).

2) Press two for English (with a response of “screw you! I know more than any of you damed racist honkies who do not want what is right for America del Obama!!!”).

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Pretty sad when our US Government pits itself against the citizens of our Country/Republic in favor of illegal foreigners and Criminal Trespassers!!

[hblueeyes]

One way for the prez to give a damn is to do away with the electoral college. If you win the top 11 states, then you win the election. Do the math. Arizonia is not one of the top 11 states.

Me

[Jolie Rouge]

One way for the prez to give a damn is to do away with the electoral college. If you win the top 11 states, then you win the election. Do the math. Arizonia is not one of the top 11 states.

If you "do away" with the electoral college ... then they only need to campaign in the New England states, California, and Florida... no one else would really have enough votes to matter... which is why the Founding Fathers develped the Concept of the Electoral College in the first place. "Fly Over Country" and the Deep South would be completely ignored.

[Jolie Rouge]

It's now quite clear that Barack Obama is prepared to do anything to defeat Joe Arpaio – including breaking the law!

Immediately after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the part of Arizona's immigration law that allows Sheriff's Joe's officers to check the immigration status of suspected illegals, President Obama ordered the federal government to stop cooperating with these immigration checks.

That's illegal.

The message is clear, however. Barack Obama will do ANYTHING to prevent Sheriff Joe from doing his job. He will stop at nothing to make Joe look bad and undermine his reelection.

Obama now has protesters trying to harass Joe's officers. His left-wing allies are raising money like crazy. Radical activists from radical "immigrants' rights" groups are pouring into Maricopa county.

The Justice Department is even suing Sheriff Joe. They want to place Joe's office under a type a federal receivership!

Barack Hussein Obama has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop cooperating with Sheriff's Joe's deputies.

I'm sure you can guess Joe's reaction to the news that the Immigrations and Custom Enforcement Agency will try to stop his office from rounding up illegals! Joe calmly declared on Fox News, "If ICE won't come get them, we will take them and dump them on their doorstep!"

That's why America loves Joe Arpaio. He tells it like it is and won't back down.

Some of the more "senior" politicians in Washington could learn a lesson from Sheriff Joe.

However, this commitment to the law and protecting the American people is why President Obama wants Joe gone and why he is doing everything he can to defeat Sheriff Joe this fall.

The White House and its allies have more money and resources than we do. They have the liberal media pounding on Sheriff Joe day after day. They have left wing activists who stand out in front of Joe's offices and scream for hours on end. They have money for negative TV ads and mailers smearing Sheriff Joe and his good name. And they have the full might and fury of the federal government that is willing to do anything to undermine and destroy this one country sheriff.

http://sm1.netatlantic.com/track?t=v&eas=1&mid=531244&msgid=463561&did=412906&edid=412906&sn=16836841&eid=lsterrio%40hotmail.com&eeid=lsterrio%40hotmail.com&uid=lsterrio%40hotmail.com&rid=44386&erid=44386&fl=&mvid=&extra=&&&2100&eu=10601&&&%20#

[Jolie Rouge]

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Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Challenges George Lopez to Meeting After Lopez's Tirade
By Jennifer Abbey | ABC News – 10 hrs ago.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., responded to George Lopez's profanity-filled tirade against him by telling the comedian to come meet with him. "Get some guts, come down here and meet me face to face. Let's see how you act then," Arpaio, known as "America's Toughest Sheriff," told ABC affiliate KNXV.

Lopez has no comment regarding Arpaio's invitation, according to his publicist. Lopez's attack on Arapio was part of the comedian's "It's not me, it's you" standup comedy show on HBO Saturday night. The rant came after Lopez joked that Mitt Romney is Latino but won't admit it. Lopez's comments regarding Arpaio last for about two minutes and included profanities in English and Spanish to a cheering crowd.

"Sheriff Joe in Arizona, **** you!" Lopez said during the show.

Arpaio, 80, is known for his outspoken opinions on illegal immigration and his investigation into President Obama's eligibility to be president. "I was surprised at the language. It was pretty nasty," Arpaio told ABC affiliate KNXV. "What is he, the spokesman for the open border people?" Arpaio told KNXV. "See, I can be funny too. Now let's see if he has the guts to meet me, and I'll be happy to take him to a Mexican lunch."

Lopez's Arpaio tirade received mixed reviews from viewers. "We in Maricopa County love Joe and we'll be showing it in November … GO JOE!!!!!!" one viewer posted on Lopez's Facebook page.

"You sure put a whipping on Mitt & Sheriff Joe last night. It was hilarious," another posted.

Lopez isn't the only person attacking Arpaio lately. Three maximum-security inmates were arrested July 11 for plotting to assassinate the sheriff, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Additionally, a class action accusing Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office of racial profiling on the pretense of enforcing immigration laws is set to go to trial July 19, almost four years after it was filed.

Arpaio will release new information at a news conference Tuesday regarding Obama's eligibility to be president. The information is part of a six-month on-going investigation of the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate by Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse. Arpaio, who has been sheriff since 1993, is up for re-election in November. He will be running for his sixth term.

http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-challenges-george-lopez-meeting-170150706--abc-news-topstories.html

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What is the problem with enforcing U.S. immigration law? I lived in Spain for five years and the Guardia Civil, could stop anyone for no real cause and ask for my passport, which happened quite a few times, however, I never had an issue with that, because I had nothing to hide. America, should craft its immigration laws on that of Mexico or the E.U.

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Illegal immigration must come to an end, legal immigration is fine. When there are Hamas and other terrorist groups coming up through Central America and through Arizona and New Mexico, sorry, I do not want them. How many are coming through Canada? The evidence has been found through all the trash and other items left along the trails they follow. Sorry, go for it all, Sheriff Joe!

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I don't understand what George Lopez problem with the Sherrif Joe Arpaio doing his job by ensuring everyone is here legally and its safe. I wish we have him here in Houston.

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Reglamento del la Ley General de Poblacion....Mexico's Immigration laws....mandates all federal, local, municipal police cooperate with federal immigration in arrest for illegal immigration: 1) it's a felony to cross the border into Mexico illegally 20 punidhable by 2 years in prison 3) if deported and try to reenter illegally: punishable for up to 10 years 4) visa violators get 6 years in prison 5) any Mexicans who help someone enter Mexico illegally are considered criminals 7) Mexico can deport any foreigner deemed to be detrimental to economic or national interests, who violate Mexican laws, who are not "physically or mentally healthy" or lacks the necessary means to sustain themselves and their dependents.......among others......But those trying to upholding US immigration law are considered racist.......go figure!!!!

[pepperpot]

Arpaio will release new information at a news conference Tuesday regarding Obama's eligibility to be president. The information is part of a six-month on-going investigation of the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate by Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse. Arpaio, who has been sheriff since 1993, is up for re-election in November. He will be running for his sixth term.
I caught wind of this yesterday but I wasn't sure how accurate or reliable the sources were. I guess we'll wait and see if it's true and what comes to light.

[Jolie Rouge]

Now ‘indisputable proof’ of Obama forgery
Written on July 17, 2012 at 7:26 am by FPP

At a news conference Tuesday in Phoenix that will be live-streamed by WND, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse will present “indisputable proof” the Obama birth document released by the White House is a forgery, according to the posse’s lead investigator.

Mike Zullo said the new information was developed during an investigative trip to Hawaii in May.

The press conference will be held Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. [Local time will be 2:30 p.m., as Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time].

http://frontporchpolitics.com/2012/07/now-indisputable-proof-of-obama-forgery/

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Could we just get SOMETHING out of BO?????
Maybe his transcripts from high school? college?
Maybe one of the papers that he wrote when he was President of Harvard Law Group??
Maybe his social security number information??? Oh, wait~!!
His social security number is fraudulent!! From Connecticut!!
It was issued before to someone else!! It failed E-Verify!!
BO is disgusting - through and through.

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My sense is that Sheriff Joe is not very familiar with computers. Otherwise, he would know that he cannot authenticate the image of the birth certificate released by the White House. Computer images are not self-authenticating, and what was released is a digital image of a copy of a birth certificate. He will need to go to Hawaii and see the original, just like Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett did.
The image released is neither an authentic birth certificate NOR a forgery. It's a computer image. Using a computer image to authenticate an original document would not be admissible in any court, so what Arpaio is doing is a total waste of time.
Do you think US Customs would let you back into this country if you brought a scanned copy of your passport, instead of the real one?

[mosdata1]

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Really???!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, I cannot believe how many people insist on parroting this nonsense.

[Jolie Rouge]

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Really???!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, I cannot believe how many people insist on parroting this nonsense.

So ... if McCain had presented scanned documents and had his records sealed... you would have had no problems ?

[Jolie Rouge]

I’ll believe that when Romney addresses the issue that the PDF that Obama claimed was his Birth Certificate and had placed on the White House web site has been declared, by an official law enforcement investigation, as “undoubtedly a fraud”.

And Hawaiian law allowed people born outside of the state (even outside the USA) to get a Hawaiian Birth Certificate.

This is an illegal immigration/national security issue.

July 17, 2012
EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRY LEADS TO NEW INFORMATION
SHERIFF’S INVESTIGATORS:“PRESIDENT’S LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS UNDOUBTEDLY A FRAUD”
http://mcso.org/MultiMedia/PressRelease/Birth%20Certificate%20Investigation%20Part%20II.pd f


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Press Conference Video http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/sheriff-joe-arpaio-press-conference/

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What changes the dynamic is that calling the Sheriff a lunatic and his supporters birthers as suffering from ODS means zilch.

What has to be refuted now is evidence. It is not longer just an accusation. It is an accusation backed by evidience. If one cannot refute the evidence, one cannot refute the accusation.

Time to drop this steamy pile of smelly stuff in the President’s lap.

[Jolie Rouge]

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[pepperpot]

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:potkettle Oh wait! That's racist!!!! :doh

[Jolie Rouge]

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Really???!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, I cannot believe how many people insist on parroting this nonsense.

http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/demotivational-posters-bacon-elvis.jpg

[Jolie Rouge]

Sheriff Arpaio under scrutiny in racial profiling trial
By Tim Gaynor | Reuters – 3 hrs ago

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Mexican tourist Manuel Ortega Melendres was a passenger in a car pulled over by deputies of hard-line Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio during a sweep for illegal immigrants, ostensibly because the vehicle's driver was speeding. But moments later Melendres was arrested, despite having a valid visa and producing identification, while the vehicle's white driver was neither cited nor taken into custody.

Melendres' ordeal in 2007 is now at the heart of a class action lawsuit to be heard in federal court in Phoenix beginning Thursday in a case that will test whether Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio can target the undocumented in immigration "sweeps" without racially profiling Latino citizens. The suit contends that Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," and his officers violate the constitutional rights of both Hispanic citizens and legal immigrants alike in their zeal to crack down on people they believe to be illegal immigrants in the Phoenix valley. "At trial we will prove that Sheriff Arpaio's fixation on immigration enforcement and his equating of, quote, ‘illegal' with 'Latino' has resulted in systemic civil rights violations," said Cecillia Wang, director of the Immigrants Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

The sheriff's office "has recklessly set up a dragnet for undocumented immigrants, but in the process has violated the rights of countless Latino residents of the county, U.S. citizens and immigrants alike who cannot go about their lawful business without fear of being detained and interrogated during a pretextual traffic stop," she added.

The non-jury bench trial, which will run from July 19 to August 2, focuses attention once again on Arizona, which claimed headlines last month when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a key element of the state's crackdown on illegal immigrants requiring police to investigate those they stop and suspect of being in the country illegally.

Supporters said the law was needed because the U.S. federal government had failed to secure the porous southwest border with Mexico. President Barack Obama's administration challenged it in court, saying the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government sole authority over immigration policy. Arpaio, who has become the public face of local efforts to enforce tough immigration laws, denies the allegations and is to fight them in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

Lisa Allen, a spokeswoman for Arpaio's office, said that neither it nor its attorneys would comment "until after the case is decided."

LITTLE IMPACT ON ARPAIO

The lawsuit's plaintiffs include four other Hispanics stopped by deputies and the Somos America immigrants' rights coalition. It was later expanded to include all Latino drivers stopped by the office since 2007. Arpaio, who turned 80 last month, faces a separate, broader lawsuit lodged by the U.S. Justice Department in May, alleging systematic profiling, sloppy and indifferent police work, and a disregard for minority rights by him and county officials.

That suit contends Arpaio's office routinely violates the First Amendment rights to free speech of political opponents by retaliating against them with unsubstantiated complaints and lawsuits and by having them unlawfully arrested. But despite mounting legal problems, any win by the plaintiffs in the Melendres suit is unlikely to harm Arpaio's chances as he seeks re-election to a sixth term in November, analysts said. "More than anything else, the conflict with the (Justice Department) and this civil suit are seen by his supporters as evidence he is endeavoring to combat illegal immigration and as a result is being persecuted by the Obama Administration and liberals," said Mark P. Jones, a political scientist at Rice University in Texas.

"At this point I do not see these suits as adversely affecting his re-election efforts," Jones added.

But attorneys for the plaintiffs hope a win would bring about broad changes in the way the sheriff's office conducts its policing in Maricopa County, where nearly a third of the 3.9 million residents are Latino. Attorney Andrew C. Byrnes said the plaintiffs are not seeking monetary damages, only injunctive relief to put a stop to what he said was "racial profiling" by Arpaio's deputies. Victory would lead to the implementation of "generally accepted police practices" to avoid racial profiling, including "training, monitoring and supervision" of deputies, and the collection of data detailing the ethnic group of those stopped.

Judge Murray Snow is hearing the case. It is not clear when he will return a verdict.

http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sheriff-arpaio-under-scrutiny-racial-profiling-trial-120238201.html

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Mexico, NOT the US ... The General Law on Population says,

- “A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article 123)

- Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. (Article 125)

- Foreigners who “attempt against national sovereignty or security” will be deported. (Article 126)

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During a recent newscast, reporter Morgan Loew revealed that Correction Corporation of America gets $11 million a month for inmates in the company's Arizona facilities. follow the money go to ALECexposed, see how CCA wrote the immigration laws in all these states, why? 11 million a month just from arizona. see what politicians are getting their pockets stuffed from corporations like this one. look at the laws passed in your state, written by corporations, that benefit them at your expence........ALECexposed

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There's a lot of people in the U.S. who no longer go to Mexico because of the violence and problems. So here's a thought, if you're Mexican and don't like the way Mexicans are treated here.....stay in Mexico... address the problems in your own home.

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And in old Chicago the mayor, Obamas ex chief of staff, proudly refuses to carry out the immigration laws and boldly brags of helping illegals with tax dollars. Wheres the Justice department? Only goes after Obamas targets. SOME JUSTICE!!!

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Although Mexican authorities have harshly criticized Arizona's SB1070, a law that requires local police to check the status of persons suspected of being illegal immigrants, in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive terrible treatment from corrupt Mexican authorities.

And Mexico has a law that is no different from Arizona's that empowers local police to check the immigration documents of people suspected of not being in the country legally.

"There (in the United States), they'll deport you," Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, said as he rested in a makeshift camp with other migrants under a highway bridge in Tultitlán. "In Mexico they'll probably let you go, but they'll beat you up and steal everything you've got first."

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I haven't noticed many white illegals crossing from mexico so profiling is the only way to go and should be continued. They can't try Joe by a jury of his equals because he has none. He's a one man army fighting the governments failure to protect its citizens.

If 95% of illegal immigrants in this country are from South and Central America and Mexico .... and 90% of those are crossing our borders in AZ and TX ... is it "profiling" or "Statitical Analysis" ?

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what is the real reason they want the sheriff to leave illegals alone ??

[hblueeyes]

I love it when illegal Mexicans are pulled over and cry racial profiling when they look white, have blonde hair etc. It has nothing to do with them being illegal, no license, no insurance etc. Profiling? Not!

Me

[Jolie Rouge]

11:21 am ET July 24, 2012
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Set to Testify in Discrimination Case Against Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America,” is known for his tough stance on illegal immigration. Today, Arpaio is set to testify in a class action racial discrimination lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department.

The suit, which was filed by the ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, claims that Arpaio and his deputies racially profiled Latinos in an attempt to root out illegal immigrants. It does not seek money, but wants Arpaio to agree to an outside monitor and admit that he engaged in a pattern of discrimination.

The suit alleges “that he assigned multiple deputies to these Latino neighborhoods, based not on actual crime stats, but racially-motivated citizen complaints in these areas.”

La Jeunesse commented, “For many, they believe that probably over his lengthy career, he’s probably said some things that could damage his case.”

La Jeunesse concluded, “People in Arizona they love or hate this guy. But definitely, the financial stakes for the county are very high.”

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/07/24/sheriff-joe-arpaio-set-to-testify-in-discrimination-case-against-maricopa-county-sheriffs-department/

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You have my support Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It is surprising Eric Holder is pressing allegations against Sheriff Joe, yet Holder has violated more Federal laws and is a party to murder case(s) involving killing of Mexicans and an American Citizen! Related to all of this, President Obama has violated his Oath of Office and the Constitution many times, therefore should held accountable and charge with Malfeasance.

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I stand with Sheriff Joe 100%. We have up to 20 million illegal aliens overrunning our border and the ACLU along with President Obama is trying to stop the one man that is trying to do something about it. There is something really wrong going on in this country. We can't do anything about the ACLU but we can get rid of President Obama and that would automatically solve a lot of problems.

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Ya gotta love Sheriff Joe! He was elected to do a job, and it looks like he's doing it. Now if only the whiners can find a bleeding heart judge, they can cost the people of Arizona millions. After all who does he think he is...a law enforcement officer...The nerve...

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The problem I am having with President Obama is that he spends millions of dollars of taxpayer money in advertising to encourage Americans to get on Entitlement programs. He then uses Executive Orders to circumvent the U.S. Constitution to keep illegal aliens in the country and encourages others to come into the country illegally to take the jobs that Americans on welfare and unemployment don't want. It borders on treason that President Obama's intent was to knowingly circumvent Congress and the U.S. Constitution as earlier in the year he made a statement that he knew it was unlawful.

[pepperpot]

I can't pick and choose which laws I will obey. Why does Obama pick and choose which ones he will enforce? :shrug

[Jolie Rouge]

Janet Napolitano tells us not to pay attention to what President Obama says about immigration: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/napolitano-obama-made-inaccurate-statement-on-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-killed-in-immigrant-smuggling-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.

[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

[pepperpot]

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. :shrug That would make too much sense.

[Jolie Rouge]

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=player_embedded&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/2012/08/17/sheriff-joe-arpaio-blasts-obama-amnesty-vows-to-continue-to-enforce-immigration-laws/

[Jolie Rouge]

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/2012/08/31/13597578-feds-end-probe-of-americas-toughest-sheriff-joe-arpaio-no-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/2012/08/31/epic-fail-obama-admin-drops-3-year-witch-hunt-against-sheriff-joe-arpaio-no-charges/

[boopster]

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!

[Jolie Rouge]

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-charge-ariz-sheriff-isnt-end-215432230.html

[Jolie Rouge]

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/politics/arizona-latinos-urged-to-oust-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html?_r=0

Inquiry Finds No Misdeeds by Sheriff in Arizona (September 1, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/us/arpaio-is-not-charged-as-us-inquiry-ends.html?ref=politics

When a Taste for Publicity Bites Back (August 2, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/us/an-arizona-sheriffs-fondness-for-publicity-may-bite-back.html?ref=politics

[boopster]

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!

[Jolie Rouge]

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"

[Jolie Rouge]

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/2013/04/12/police-explosive-device-sent-to-sheriff-joe-arpaio/

[boopster]

i hope they catch who did it and put them in a metal box with their own explosive device! It's a sad state when enforcing the law becomes a crime in the eyes of others. I believe this administration's decision to ignore the constitution feeds those who go against the laws and constitution to set their own rules. If this country stopped those who are impeding the laws and constitution, it would eliminate those who feel they are above the laws. A do-gooder should be a person who works with the laws and not one who works to break the laws. (and that should also include elected officials who were elected by the american people for the american people of the american people who seem to forget that!)

[Jolie Rouge]

.‘Joe’s Law’: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Strategy to Derail Amnesty Enrages the Left
By John Hill on April 12, 2013

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is facing a campaign to recall him from office. They are collecting signatures, and already have more than half the required amount with two months to go. This follows a re-election campaign last year which saw unprecedented amounts spent on both sides, as George Soros committed $10 million to oust “America’s Sheriff”. http://www.infowars.com/george-soros-pledges-10-million-to-defeat-sheriff-joe-for-reelection/ Joe was forced to spend his entire ‘war chest’ of $8 million to (barely) hold onto office – the closest race of his career.

Why?

Why is the Left in America so focused on a single county’s Sheriff, and willing to spend Congressional-level funds to defeat him?

Well for starters, Sheriff Joe is the biggest national symbol in the fight against illegal immigration. He has refused to back down from enforcing the immigration laws most law enforcement officials ignore, even in the face of attacks by race-baiting activists and lawsuits from the Obama Administration. His ‘Tent City’, pink underwear and cheap eats for inmates are legendary across America.


In addition, Sheriff Joe has taken a strong stand against Federal gun control – further angering the Left. Joe deployed his Posse to defend schools from would-be madmen like the one who targeted the kids in Newtown. He also said he would refuse to enforce any new gun-control laws from Washington – by far the largest county Sheriff to do so.


But perhaps the real reason Sheriff Joe is endlessly (and expensively) targeted is because he aggressively pursues a strategy that hits at the very heart of amnesty proponents. Arpaio systematically conducts workplace raids on companies discovered to have employees who gained employment by using fake or stolen IDs. Those illegal aliens who are arrested in his raids are typically charged with felonies. And any illegals who are convicted of or plea to a felony are put on the fast-track for deportation, or at the very least are barred from ever gaining citizenship or legal status under any version of “immigration reform” legislation. They are even barred from Obama’s DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Understandably, this has enraged the Left.

The worksite raids began in 2008, after Arizona passed an employer-sanctions law meant to impose civil penalties on companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers. The Obama DOJ, La Raza and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce all challenged the law but Arizona prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011. But starting in 2008, Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Attorney decided to use the new law to crack down on workers using false documents and charge them with identity theft. This strategy would ensure that a criminal record would keep illegal aliens from ever obtaining citizenship.

Arpaio has conducted 71 such workplace raids since 2008, arresting many hundreds of illegal alien identity thieves in the process. Workers are often charged with multiple counts of identity theft, typically a Class 4 felony, and offered plea bargains to a lower charge, such as “taking the identity of another,” a Class 6 violation. But even with such a conviction, they are typically guaranteed to be deported, and regardless, can never gain legal status in the U.S. under any current or proposed legislation.

“Joe’s Law” has had an outsized impact on illegal immigration in Arizona. Maricopa County may be just one county, but it is the 4th largest in the United States. And Arpaio and his deputies arrest a staggering 25% of all illegals detained by law enforcement each year in the U.S. Coupled with the landmark immigration law SB1070, Joe’s Law has sent illegal alien fleeing from the state. Since 2008, when Arpaio began his raids, an estimated 200,000 illegal aliens have fled Arizona, according to DHS data. By contrast, since Obama took office, he has slashed worksite enforcement by over 70%.

There is nothing to stop other states from following Joe’s lead. Arizona-style employer sanctions and ID theft laws, with Sheriffs willing to prosecute illegals for felony crimes, is the model for states whose legislatures want to enforce the rule of law, in opposition to the Obama Administration’s multiple channels of amnesty.

The Left is seething at Sheriff Joe’s actions. In a piece in Salon.com, Arpaio is lambasted for “cheating immigration reform” and “shattering dreams of immigrants”, when of course he is merely doing what every Sheriff, police chief and ICE ought to be doing: enforcing the laws on the books.

The group behind the Arpaio recall, Puente, is quoted in the Salon piece:


“Maricopa County is the only county that is doing these raids. They don’t have to do these raids–that is immigration’s job,” said Carlos Garcia, director of Puente, a pro-immigrant and human rights organization in Phoenix. “If we don’t stop Arpaio…the people from the 71 raids are never going to be able to obtain citizenship or any other legal status in the country because of the felonies.”

That’s right. This is Sheriff Joe’s “secret weapon” against amnesty and it enrages the Left that a country Sheriff who cannot be fired is able to so easily stymie their plans for illegal alien amnesty – which explains why they are so desperate to recall him from office.

And so long as he remains Sheriff, no one – not the DOJ, nor the “Gang of Eight”, nor Obama or Napo0litano – can stop him from enforcing the law and torpedoing amnesty for every illegal alien he books for identity theft.

So long as he remains Sheriff, that is. Whether or not George Soros and his Leftist allies can recall Joe,only time will tell.


http://standwitharizona.com/blog/2013/04/12/joes-law-sheriff-joe-arpaios-strategy-to-derail-amnesty-enrages-the-left/

[Jolie Rouge]

When You Read What Sheriff Joe Said About Obama, You’ll Want to Pack Your Bags and Move to Arizona
August 26, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known as America’s Sheriff, is not one for mincing words when it comes to how he feels about the dangerous and disastrous presidency of Barack Obama. As the Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, he deals with the illegal alien invasion of the southern border enough to know and understand the reality of the situation, not the lies the Obama regime tells.

On Monday, Sheriff Arapaio sent out an email in which he excoriated Obama for his handling, or rather failure at handling, the increasing border invasion. His words are a much needed, eye-opening, and frighteningly informative.


Our country is under attack.

And Barack Obama is the aggressor. That’s right. Our own President has overseen the release of thousands of illegal immigrants…hundreds of whom are convicted criminals – even felons, which are flooding into America.

Every day you read the newspaper or turn on the news, there is something tragic happening, something Obama says is beyond our control.

But I must tell you: the state of the U.S. – Mexican border IS NOT BEYOND OUR CONTROL. In fact, it’s one of the key places where the safety of our nation starts. AND I am working around the clock to take criminals off the streets.

Every action Obama has taken since the border crisis began has led to an increase in the flood of men, women, children, AND CRIMINALS! The icing on the cake…Obama’s solution is holding events at the White House “honoring young adults who came to this country illegally.”

HE IS REWARDING CRIMINALS! We are arresting them just to have the Obama administration release them the next day!

Over the past seven months, I have compiled the statistics of over 3,000 inmates in my jail for various crimes that are here illegally. Over 36% of these illegals come back many times after they are turned over to the federal government for deportation.

But if they’re coming back at such an alarming rate, either our border is so porous or the federal government is releasing them out the back door. Either way is unacceptable! I have written every month to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security about this and just last week I sent a letter to the Inspector General’s office asking for an investigation. You know what I got back? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

Even the mainstream media is completely ignoring this problem.

If we lose control over our own borders and the rule of law no longer matters in the courts, then I fear our great American experiment will draw to a close. In Arizona alone, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants are being dropped off at bus stations in Phoenix and Tucson alone. We now have U.S. Border Patrol agents moving illegal immigrants from one city to another in our United States.

It’s a bad situation, but I refuse to sit back and watch it get worse. That is why I urgently need your support. We must stand together in unison against Obama’s pro-amnesty regime.

**Obama golfs on vacation while the borders flood** just like **Nero fiddled while Rome burned.**

Tough words from America’s toughest Sheriff.

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/26/when-you-read-what-sheriff-joe-said-about-obama-youll-want-to-pack-your-bags-and-move-to-arizona/

[boopster]

Joe for president! at least he knows the constitution, knows right from wrong AND is willing to enforce these laws.

As I have said in the past, should any american be harmed in any way by an illegal, those in this government should be held accountable, should be sued, and should pay for their crimes against americans!

PS i will not play judge and jury like this administration. they should all have to go on trial and let a panel of american citizens pass judgment

[Jolie Rouge]

You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb.

Well.............


SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!

Maricopa County was spending approx.$18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay.

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him.. Cost us $78. The prisoners get the benefit of about $0..28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals..

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.

He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later.... We have six trees in our yard from the Prison.

Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote.

Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of Sheriff.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona ) who created the ' Tent City Jail':

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but 'G' movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He Wouldn't Get Sued For Discrimination.

He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For Jails So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.

When asked why the weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna Be While They Are Working ON My Chain Gangs.

He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero Nutritional Value. When the inmates complained, he told them,
'This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton......If You Don't Like It, Don't Come Back.'

More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press Reports:
About 2,000 Inmates Living In A Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued Pink Boxer Shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached
138 Degrees Inside The Week Before.

Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS.

'It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,' Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year. 'It's Inhumane.'

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates:
'It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear, But They Didn't Commit Any Crimes, So Shut Your Mouths!'

Way To Go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

[boopster]

we could use one of sherriff joe in every town, county, state....and federal government. if you do the crime, you should have to pay the fine...and no person convicted of a crime should have luxuries that taxpayers can't afford. he is teaching them responsibility, teaching them that nothing is for free. what he is doing is basically what ben carson was saying that no one should expect a hand out. if you want something you have to earn it. thank you sherriff joe!

ps i would like to know why there is a federal law that says jails have to have cable!!!!!!!!!