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Joe is an grandstanding asshole. He's getting a good kick in the balls.
Note that his cruel and unusual punishment of illegals includes rounding US citizens, and does nothing to dissuade illegals.
Illegal Chinese are now coming again, too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...rizona-sheriff
Daniel Nasaw in Washington
A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama administration.
Joe Arpaio, a gruff lawman who styles himself as America's toughest sheriff, has won acclaim from US anti-immigrant forces for his relentless pursuit of mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants in Maricopa county, Arizona, a fast-growing county of 4 million people that is home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city.
Arpaio's aggressive tactics include the jailing of illegal immigrants in tent cities surrounded by barbed wire in the middle of Arizona's searingly hot summers, the reduction of meal costs to 20 cents per day, the use of pink jail clothing for men, and chain gangs for women inmates.
Arpaio also came in for criticism when he appeared on the Fox reality show Smile: You're Under Arrest.
Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.
But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal immigration".
For his part Arpaio has promised to continue chasing illegal immigrants using state laws. In an angry press conference, he called US homeland security officials "liars" and said he would personally drive those caught on the streets to the border if federal officers refused to take arrested illegal immigrants into custody. "I'll take a little trip to the border and turn them over to the border," he said.
Arpaio's critics decried his continued plans to arrest illegal immigrants and said the Obama administration should sever all ties with him.
The now-rescinded authority to conduct field sweeps of illegal immigrants yielded only about 300 out of the roughly 33,000 total arrests of illegal immigrants since 2007, the Obama administration has done little to curtail Arpaio, said Frank Sharry, executive director of immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice.
"He's going to go down in history as a man who terrorised the Latino community for the sake of his own visibility and political popularity,"Sharry said. "The fact that the Obama administration would lend any of its legitimacy to any of his activities is surprising and disappointing."
Arpaio was first elected sheriff in 1993.
"The department of homeland security is making a historic mistake if it continues its relationship with Sheriff Joe Arpaio," said Paco Fabian, spokesman for immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice. "The federal government is lending its full force and legitimacy to a rogue cop certain to go down in history as a serial violator of civil rights and an enemy of the Latino community."
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the US. The federal government is virtually paralysed over how to react, with conservatives like Arpaio calling for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants and increased border enforcement. Obama, many Democrats and some Republicans call for a system that will allow most to gain legal status after paying a fine and learning English, but reform efforts in 2006 and 2007 withered under sustained rightwing opposition.
More than 60 law enforcement agencies across the country have signed onto the same programme under which local officers are effectively deputised to enforce immigration law. But critics of the programme say it wastes police resources needed to fight street crime, promotes racial profiling of Hispanics, targets peaceful workers, breaks up families and breeds distrust of police among immigrants, who become afraid to report crime for fear they will be asked for immigration papers.
Joe is an grandstanding asshole. He's getting a good kick in the balls.
Note that his cruel and unusual punishment of illegals includes rounding US citizens, and does nothing to dissuade illegals.
Illegal Chinese are now coming again, too.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...5955OL20091006
U.S. to house detained migrants in converted hotels
That sucks that Homeland Security is against real security attempts of this nation...
It's a race and civil rights issue.
Screw thinking about American citizen > non-American citizen in America.
"Mostly hispanic illegal aliens" as if there are other illegal aliens that he is leaving alone.
"-his relentless pursuit of mostly hispanic illegal aliens" as if there are other illegal aliens that he is leaving alone.
It seems like a country would want to throw beneficial resources at all of its citizens before allocating any beneficial resources to citizens of foreign countries.
Perhaps if said country was not running a deficit they could then care for others. Damn, it must be nice to print money.
Pathetic. Joe Arpaio is doing a good job. We need stronger rules on illegals. I am for shooting them.
You have to remember. More liberals fail geography than conservatives. They forget the point of entry for different illegal aliens. Here in Oregon, we have allot of Asian and former Soviet illegals too. I'll bet they don't have very many non-Hispanic illegals in Arizona. Leave it to the liberals to think they need to equalize the prison population statistically."Mostly hispanic illegal aliens" as if there are other illegal aliens that he is leaving alone.
Me too. Just shoot anyone attempting to cross the border without going though a proper check-point.
That should stop the flooding...
You guys aren't serious, are you?
I am dead serious. No trolling here. 15 million is the joke. Shoot a few thousand as they run from border patrol, immigration officers and police. That will help alot. But it's only the begining to fix this crime.
Actually, I am.
Bullets are cheaper than deportation. If our elected officials continue to refuse to enforce immigration laws because of the cost, I say take the cheaper approach.
Illegal immigration is one thing destroying this nation. , it will cut down the drug trades also.
No . The problem is the politicians let this problem go on way to long. Now alot of Americans are used to the problem. Now more than ever we need to do something. But nothing will change so my solution means .
"alot of Americans are used to the problem."
lot of Americans (businesses, and the Repugs are famously pro-business, aka, screw consumers and employees) BENEFIT from exploiting illegal aliens, paying them wages, and even refusing to pay them at all.
It's not a BENEFIT. I love how you changed my words. 15 million illegals are in America. Most are living off Americans. America is close to 10 percent unemployment. The illegals are a big reason why. GO HOME! Playtime is over.
This is a moronic statement... on so many levels...
No matter their nationality, or race, 'illegal aliens' are still human beings... How a GOD-fearing person can justify shooting someone simply because they weren't born in this nation is beyond reproof and full of hipocrisy...
You want to keep them out? Enforce harder rules against those employers breaking the law... Shooting them because it's cheaper? What type of country are you promoting?Some ideals there buddy...
I wish we did. That's the problem. No matter how much we complain abot it, our government is not acting.
I said that it's cheaper because people use cost as a reason for non-enforcement.Shooting them because it's cheaper? What type of country are you promoting?
What's your solution?
... I say place kiosk operated machine guns on the border and post a sign that says BYOB... Bring your own Bullets!
How much would the government revenue increase?
You guys are ing idiots.
You guys wouldn't know what "Homeland Security" was if a tattooed with the phrase hit you in the face.
The funny thing is, we all know you're "internet touch guys". This thing isn't even about immigration, it's about your stupidity. I've met several dumb asses like you who think they're Rambo. Just be careful not to shoot yourself, blood transfusions were created by a black man. That might destroy your quest for racial purity.
BULL .
95% of the crap you post is against illegal immigrants themselves. The most latest posts, about shooting them. You're not complaining about businesses except for a secondary notion, don't even begin to bull .
great. can they shoot back?
They already do ask the border patrol. you haven't been paying attention.
And 95% of the you post ignores the responsiblity, and the complicity of the Mexican people and the Mexican goverment, it ignores the number of Mexican criminals and pyschopaths that are using this nation to profit and indulge their blood lust in. It ignores the ecological diasters created by illegals. Sure go after the bussinesses as hard as possible,but go after every illegal you can as well.
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