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AZ Sheriff On CNN Says, "I'm Going To Fool Them All"
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told Wolfe Blitzer on CNN that he "fooled" the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Wednesday afternoon, just days after losing his ICE immigration agent authority, which had previously authorized Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputies to investigate and detain people suspected of living or working in the country illegally.
Critics who have decried Arpaio as the "modern day Bull Connor" for his immigration enforcement tactics celebrated this week when news spread that DHS would no longer authorize MCSO to investigate and detain people on immigration violations on the streets of Phoenix, but Arpaio says his immigration efforts will not be derailed. Instead, he told CNN that he "fooled" DHS by signing the new enforcement agreement, one undoubtedly meant to hamper his efforts.
Arpaio says a little-known U.S. law gives him the authority to continue enforcing immigration laws with fewer restrictions than he had been required to follow under his previous agreement with DHS. Arpaio also said both yesterday and again today that he lost his ICE authority due to a conspiracy against him.
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It is Az Corporate Farms that want him to stop not ICE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Will Mexico have a Sheriff like this when Americans have to sneak into to Mexico to find work ?????
Sheriff Joe is a good man. He has the the Right Stuff.
Speaking of Phx, Sheriff Joe, here is an article in the AZ Biz Journal...Another atrocious act against President Obama that happened in PHX.
Read below:
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/10/05/daily72.html?surround=lfn#tp_newCommentAnchor
A good man? - check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio#Controversy_and_criticism
Love Joe!
Sheriff Joe is a fighter. We need him in AZ.
Good. You take him.
Sheriff you need to retire... your burnt out, your angry, and your a liar. If you don't need this Bush give you a psss deal to do your job than why the heck are you talking crap? You are not the law.. you serve and protect...... that is your job. The red hate is written all over your face.... buster your picking up Americans of Mexican descent who have generations rooted here longer than your short family history in this country!
New Mexico doesn't pull this nonsense, and its state economy is thriving, thanks to the forward-thinking of Governor Bill Richardson.
Arpaio is destroying AZ. What sane businessman would want to open up in AZ with nutcase cowboy law enforcement like this having free rein?
Arizona has become Redneck Central in the USA. Stay out of it. The cops are accusatory if they stop you when you are driving through to NM or TX. The attitude of most Arizonans are that Mexicans have destroyed their economy, when it is the Arizonans themselves. If it's the Mexicans, and Arpaio is rounding them up up, where are these supposed out-of-work Arizonans taking up the slack. Ohhh...they're not. The slackers didn't want the jobs anyway.
What they don't want to admit is that those people who are not illegal and "other" are the natives of AZ, and they are the intruders who ruined everything.
We love Sheriff Joe in AZ.
Speak for yourself - a lot of us recognize him for what he is, not what he pretends to be.
No, WE don't!
I'm thinking it might be time for Joe to retire.
Sounds more like the government needs reforming.
No, actually Joe needs to retire. He's almost 80, and 90 years behind the times. He should have retired 20 years ago. The folks that keep voting him end, must be his "peers", so this "problem" may correct itself naturally within the next few years.
His basic principle is sound -- enforce our laws, secure our border -- it's his style that is questioned. I support him, but his style could use some moderation.
If he wants to secure our border, he needs to get a job with the Federal Government. A county Sherrif does not enforce Federal Law.
Him and his "Men" go door to door in Low income areas and arrest all the non-whites. If he can't find a reason to stick them in his jail, he tries ICE, then dumps the rest of the people in the middle of the desert.
ITS SICK!
i get that we need immigration reform, i get that we need secure boarders, but this is not in any way, shape or form how to go about it in the United States of America.
Let's all remember this when Pot is legalized in California. When the federal government tries to tell California law enforcement how to ignore California law and goes after individual officers that do not comply.
Funny you should mention this. Remember how Eric Holder supposedly called off the DEA to raid medicinal marijuana dispensaries? Well, that was ignored because the DEA recently raided 10 clubs in southern CA. Also the city of LA attorney is trying to shut down all dispensaries in the county of Los Angeles. What I don't get is how will this help bankrupt California? So we're going to run out the last few businesses that are left to pay tax revenue to the state? Is this against the law since it was passed as a proposition? I'm pretty cynical about most things that corporations and government are involved in and the one rule to follow in our capitalist society is to always follow the money. I don't see any logical explanation for the state to raid businesses that our paying them taxes. Who and how are they going to profit from this nonsense?
i can first handedly tell you that the raids were actually conducted by LAPD-illegally, of course but by the LAPD. They raided one of the dispensaries i used on a regular basis.
i wasn't surprised about this. in most of the dispensaries you go in, buy your product and leave. at this place people would actually buy their stuff and thenhang out playing pools, doing bong hits, watching tv, etc.
although i enjoyed having the place so close to home, it was easy to see that they weren't going to be acting in that capacity for too long.
In Cali all these Dispensaries must be non-profit. AS soon as they make any money, its a crime. Cali's medical pot law was a huge step forward, but the non-profit piece is simply stupid.
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I'm with you??
Joe would have been a better head of DHS than what's her name. Now she is actually telling law enforement to not enforce the law??
The AZ Bully with a badge and gun power is coming to an end!
Never going to happen. This Sheriff is not only effective (though over the top), but he has a tremendous resume to bolster his qualification for the job. He is no slouch, but he can be abrasive.
Sounds like typical government. Yes he would of been better than her by a long_shot.
You're joking of course??? Not even Bush would have hired this loose cannon to come anywhere near DC. With the possible exception of Dick Cheney, most federal officials at least "pretend" to be following the law, and cooperating with the Administration's agenda.
Arpaio is claiming that he owes no allegiance to the federal government OR the state's governor because he was elected by the people in his COUNTY. What do you do with somebody who uses that kind of convoluted reasoning?
I sincerely hope that the Governor, and the Attorney General are paying attention to this man, and if he crosses the line ONE time, he should be prosecuted, 80 years old or not., to the fullest extent of the law. He has certainly made life a living hell for many residents in Arizona, and not just illegals.
God forbid if someone like that had gotten any power in Washington. Half the people in the country would be in Gitmo like facilities.
Maybe Joe was humiliated and embarassed by an adult when he was a child
and he's been getting even ever since. His whole operation seems to be "I'll show 'em!"
Could have been all those John Wayne and Tarzan movies, or depictions of ordinary men turning into Superman. Some of those old guys believed that nonsense.
If the federal government isn't going to do their job................
Then Sheriff Joe has to the government's job. He needs to go get all those employers and put them in jail. Illegal problem solved.
Poor Joe, he should have learned from Mike Carona. If you do the ICE job too well, it makes ICE look redundent, and we can't have that.
i wonder why the fbi says the crime rate continues to rise in maricopa county.
especially murder and theft.
i dont know.. but the rate is rissing in certain counties in west virginia.... i guesss we need to lock up all the... oh im sorry no mexcans in west virginia.
Let me explain something to those who may know but act as if you dont. There are alot of people who are US citrizens in Arizona but of latin descent. stopping these americans, pointing guns at them and asking them to present documents that we as americans are not required to carry is plain WRONG!
But I did not shoot the deputy....
He feels morrally superior to the people he is arresting.
sp. morally
He feels morally superior to everyone else on earth. But he is certainly NOT.
He also feels he is above the constitution -- again, he is wrong.
He's a paranoid, egomaniac with delusions of grandeur.
Faved.
And that's an understatement.
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