Justice Department Sues Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

America’s toughest sheriff takes on America’s weakest president.

Tell em to eat Cow Droppings Joe.
Holder is a wimp, no worries.

Dontget818,
A great on target post. I especially liked the small “p” in president. I’d bet you would not see a post saying President George W. Bush was weak on American pride and keeping her safe. God Bless you.

It’s easy for Arpaio to act like an idiot, when the consequences don’t affect his pocketbook ! But then again hate trumps common sense.

“Every one should thank Arpio for their now lesser Home Values.”
I just found the stupidest thing written on the Internet today. Thanks.

Thank you Sheriff for your service. They aren’t called “aliens or immigrants without passports”. They are called ILLEGAL immigrants for a reason. Does the DOJ actually know it’s against the law to be in America without proper entry? Thank you DOJ for spending my tax dollars foolishly….again or still…..come on November!!!!!!!!!!

Read the story in the Washington Times about how Obama promises not to go after mayors and police chiefs of sanctuary cities. Yet, they’ll spend tax payer money punishing Arizona for enforcing federal immigration laws codified into their own state law. Maybe this guy deserves what is coming to him but I’m sick of the double standard that Democrats are perpetrating here.

“Arpaio, the man who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” is known for carrying out bold immigration sweeps across Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Tucson, cracking down on minor traffic offenders and then arresting suspected illegal immigrants.”
Tucson is not in Maricopa County. Perhaps you mean Phoenix?

Let’s take a look at this. Arpaio protects Maricopa County in Arizona, a state that borders Mexico; his county includes the city of Phoenix. Is it so difficult for some people to believe that if Arpaio detains individuals trespassing or committing crimes, that those detained would likely be illegals from Mexico, or other central or South American countries? And just what race of people would most likely be trespassing into this country from those countries? Whites? No. Blacks? No. Asians? No. Hispanics? BINGO!!!!

Feds were left with no choice, had to sue him. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has not been cooperating as he claims today. Has actually done multiple press releases saying he wouldn’t cooperate. He sure has never cooperated with Maricopa County Board of Supervisers very well.
This Fed investigation was started June, 2008 by President Bush. Has continued on since, now todays law suit is announced.
NOTE – he is also being investigated by state of Arizona – for abuse of power
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has many possible serious issues that exist with his sheriff office in Maricopa County. Sheriff Joe Araio is/has been quite savvy about using news media to politicize his voter elected position. His crime statitics reveal crime rate have increased 58% in his jurisction, while cities in his county, under city police departments have decreased 18-30%. Crime statitics state of Arizona decresed as well.
Conservative Think Tank – Goldwater Institute – did two very damaging/derogatory investigations on him. Real crimes are not pursued by him, while illegal immigration is per Goldwater Institue and East Valley Tribune reprts. They state if you are robbed, raped, murdered, don’t expect an investigation by his office. Investigation of his stats were sdhocking. Revealed possibly illegal doctoring of way his office report statistics and close cases. East Valley Tribune reports recived Pulitzer Prize for their multiple lengthy investigative reports. Reports were very damaging. Many abuses reported. Many possible illegal arrests of anyone, not just Hispanics. Includes 4 judges, mayoers of cities in his county, superintendent of schools, county board of supervisoers, businesses, county business manager, copunty public employees, private citizens who had done nothing except publicly criticize him and have some positioin in county leadership, etc. Two judges made as part of court decisions – former Maricopa County Attorney and Sheriff Joe Arpaio abused power of their office.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has 9,000 inmates in his jails, but has had 2100+ law suite. Cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, ? combined have 60,000+ in their jails. Only 45 law suits have been filed againmst all of these cities combined together. Sheriff Joe Arapaio has 18% of their jail population, but get sued 50+ times more.
If Sheriff Joe Arpaio is innocent and good as he claims – All he has to do is cooperate. He should come through investigation just fine. He is not above the law.
His office receives multiple Federal money grants, and per law must cooperate with Federal investigations/inspections. It has been over two years since investigation started. Don’t blame Feds, multiple complaints have been lodged, Feds are required to act/investigate per the US law.
Please everyone try view the real facts. Possible serious issues may exist.

Hey tinas,
“You Americans are something else. But the last shall come first, and the first shall come last. The tables are beginning to turn and once you’ve realized that the very statement that comes out of the Bible that you cherish so dearly is predicting your future, you’re scared…”
Nice try with the “You Americans” start to your post. You just dropped your pants. Maybe you can now apply for a job at The White House and help serve the the kobe beef. Remember, knives on the right, forks on the left.

to Sharon…This guy may deserve what’s coming to him. The problem is the double standard by which this DOJ chooses to selectively enforce the law. Just like the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. This DOJ has an agenda and I question its sincerity.

Hey Sharon, Are you an ILLEGAL immigrant? In your post you mentioned something about being above the law? Did you mean the legal law or the ILLEGAL law? Seems like the Feds live above the law (or under it).

Everyone here is missing the point. The US is stolen. None of us are in any position to keep anyone out. What goes around certainly comes back around.

Tucson is in Pima County, not Maricopa County. Phoenix is in Maricopa County

Sharon, bless your heart. Yours is the voice of reason (And fact) among these comments.

“America’s toughtest sheriff” is a bombastic ego-driven bully who’s forgotten that he is NOT above the law nor is he Arizona’s sheriff. What he’s protesting and refusing to comply with is exactly what he tried to bully out of the rest of the county government offices so he could persecute and, with the help of his cohort former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, prosecute anyone who gainsayed them. I don’t live in Maricopa County but I DO live in the neighboring county so I’m affected by what happens in Maricopa.

What does it take to have a President that, actually cares about the American people? Illegals, and law breakers are taking over this country. This Sheriff was just doing his job, which was rounding up illegals. Now he’s being sued for it. Between Clinton, Bush, and now Obama, our country as we knew it, is gone.

“I kinda like sheriff joe (making inmates wear pink undies & sleep in tents) but in light of Jan Brewers ties to for profit private prisons does anyone know is Sheriff Joe has similar ties?”
I don’t he does but I could be wrong. I am not a fan.

Only in America. Joe is someone who is actually getting it right, so the Politically Correct want him stopped.
I think Americans need to make him the next President.

This sheriff was being probed by Bush and people are screaming at Obama for being too liberal. What is wrong with people using that Obama is wrong for an argument? This sheriff only had to cooperate, now his county is in trouble. More like America’s Dumbest Sheriff.

Honorable Sheriff Joe, BE AS STRONG AS YOU COULD BE AND PRAY TO GOD AS YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG, BUT PROTECT THE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS OF ARIZONA. DON’T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT. WE HAVE YOUR BACK. IF YOU FALL, SO DOES THE NATION.
**YOU ONLY NEED TO HOLD OUT UNTIL THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. BY THEN, THE TABLES WILL BE TURNED**
**SINCE THE FEDS ARE SUING THE SHERIFF, THEY HAVE TO BE “SPECIFIC” ON EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE SEEKING AND WHAT DAMAGES THE SHERIFF DID TO INCUR A LOSS OF FEDERAL DOLLARS, IF ANY**
**THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WERE GIVEN NUMEROUS REQUESTS TO PUT 3000 TROOPS ON THE AZ BORDER AND RESPONDED WITH JUST SOME TACKY SIGNS AND 30 TROOPS. AND THEY GO AROUND ASKING TEXAS IF THEY NEEDED TROOPS. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS PLAYING POLITICS WITH OUR BORDER AND NATIONAL SECURITY.
**SHERIFF JOE WILL HAVE HIS DAY IN COURT, AND IN THE END, WILL BE EXONERATED OF ANY WRONG DOING. AND AT THAT TIME, HE SHOULD COUNTERSUE THE FEDS FOR FRIVILOUS LITIGATION, SINCE THE SUIT AGAINST HIM WAS MOST LIKELY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.**

“This sheriff was being probed by Bush and people are screaming at Obama for being too liberal.”
Being probed and sued are two different matters. Obama administration has an agenda and is intimidating anyone who disagrees with his immigration agenda.

Seems that in the “era of oBama” and the DEMOCRAT majority, everyone must produce their records… expect for oBama, of course.

America is a country of laws, and the civil act of 1964 is just one the laws of the land to which no over zealous sheriff can trend on. The law must take its course if he violated the act laid by congress.
LOL, this whole debate is amazing to say the least. Somehow ILLEGAL ALIENS, these people whose mere existance in our country is AGAINST THE LAW, have granted more status in the eyes of the left than the people charged under the LAW with protecting this country’s citizens and enforcing the LAW. The left has been after this sheriff for years! How dare he actually do his job!
And DUH, the vast majority of those coming over the Mexican border are not Eastern Europeans or Japanese. They ARE, in FACT, Mexicans!

Some of the comments are baffling. For example, undocumented (or illegal)immigration isn’t on the rise in the United States, and both violence and crime on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico are on the decline.
Per the Washington Post: “A deep recession and tougher border enforcement have led to a sharp decline in the number of immigrants entering the United States illegally in the past five years, contributing to the first significant reversal in the growth of their numbers in two decades, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. ”
I’m wondering if the GOP plan is to keep the recession going– push toward a double dip, worsen the economy in any way possible– in order to stop undocumented immigration all together. “Forget job creation, folks, we have to get rid of these immigrants. Forget civil liberties and the rule of law, too, because we have to support Arpaio, the pink panties dude. He talks tough and has that cowboy swagger and penchant for theatrics we find so appealin’”
Wouldn’t surprise me all that much.
Meanwhile, I’m not into the all-powerful barron schtick.

First of all Joe really sucks. The Obama staff hasn’t been the only one trying to correct Joe’s wrong, but so has the Bush era although you crazy right wings won’t accept it because all you see is Obama hate. Joe is wrong. If you have a bigger agency that has less complaints than Joe’s agency, there is a problem. But no one will see it because of course, anything they can blame on this presidency, they will. This is a country of stupidity. You guys still will believe Obama is a Muslim, that he is not a real citizen, etc. You probably also believe aliens visit your town and they are trying to get you. The realy aliens is Joe….The common sense of Americans simply is not there.

Joe is the old man standing in front of the Redcoats saying no more, no further. We the people, all of the people must stand with him if he the Federal Government tries to strong arm him. If we allow the Government to harass and disarm our Sheriffs then we are no longer free in any sense. This is the line in the sand as far as I can see. If they can take down a Sheriff for doing his job well then they can do anything they want because the Sheriff is our strongest Authority against the Fed. Put the call out Joe and I will come and we will stand until the colors fade.

Posted by: Mike_C |
Puh-lease. Obama is in the center. You’re obviously so far to the right you can’t see or assess clearly.
Its kinda telling that you mention the record of the Justice Department, don’t go into that at all, rather you just say let’s look at it and don’t. Instead you go off track and bring up another case that involves race– a case that involves a cop arresting someone the President knows while that someone was in his own house. You also clip the President’s statement into a convenient sound bite. What the president actually said is this: “I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. (agreed) Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.(agreed) And number three — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that’s just a fact. (agreed)”
Undocumented immigration is on the decline, Mike C. On the decline. And deportation of illegal immigrants has increased– that’s right, increased– under the Obama administration.

“As far as job creation goes, Obama has gone out of his way to ensure that does not happen anytime soon.”
You think the President is the one who has gone out of his way to ensure that doesn’t happen???? Ha! Funny now they’re working on a payroll tax holiday — and by they I mean the admin– while the GOP and the tea party are attending rallies about Christianity and the flag and restoring the honor they destroyed in the first place, and red states are applying for those health care subsidies, and elected Republicans are busy running around being stimulus hypocrites, etc. etc. The entire tea party/conservative/confederate movement is built on scaring and lying to the choir, and the choir spreading that fear and those lies. It’s been wildly successful in this country.

“They are on the opposite side of the American people on just about every single issue.”
So what do you do when a growing number of Americans, as exemplified by the GOP-tea party-conservative-Fox viewer- Koch brothers-and wishy washy independent- coalition are on the opposite side of American ideals, the Constitution, civil rights, human rights, honor, common sense, science, education, the facts and justice?
They are elected to do the right thing in keeping with their campaigns and what they were elected to do. If they are booted out of office, so be it. But I don’t think it is Obama or the progressive Democrats who will be judged by history harshly. Unfortunately, I think Obama’s fate is linked with the economy the Republicans tanked and show very little interest in fixing (with a couple of exceptions as I do think there are a handful of earnest Republicans, but they’re not extreme or stupid enough to be in vogue right now.)

true blue
LOL, you Ryan C under a new name?
It is amazing that lefties like you think no one like Barney Frank or Chriss Dodd or a Larry Summers had anything at all to do with things that led up to the collapse.
Only simpleton lefties believe that BS. Simpleton that are olny repeating talking points that you have spent the last 3 posts making
you do understand what a CEO’s job is dont you. You may not like it, but their responisibilty is not to make your lefty world all roses. They are charged with getting the investors the biggest return on their investments. That is why when the economy is good your 401K and other investments grow they way they do!
Yes, when times are tough, companies cut jobs. Just like they will when faced with more and more impact on the bottom line from over regulation and increases from that stupid healthcare law.
Obviously it is harder now for buisnesses to get loans, in case you missed it, we just spent the past few years with policies that came along and told banks they needed to lend to people who NEVER should have been approved. Now they are looking at it in even tougher terms. Many small buisnesses have now had it tough for 2 years, their balance sheets are making it harder for them to qualify.
By the way, I do watch Fox, MSNBC, CNN and even ABC, CBS & NBC from time to time. Olbermann may be the biggest goof ever to be given a microphone. He was playing suck face a few weeks ago with Michael Moore who thinks the kid who leaked all the secret documents to wikileaks is a hero. I hope Moore sleeps well if any of that stuff leads to people in the field whose names are in those documents get killed. Since the left seems to love to boycott everyone and everything they dont agree with, I hope people boycott Moore’s movies for his insane comments and support of this act.

If Arapio has nothing to hide he will cooperate on this issue. The fear on Arapio and the Arizona Attorneys’ representing him are affraid of what will be found in those records. Ultimately it will come down to the documentation and in the end Arapio will be found to be a disgrace to the Badge that he swore to uphold. I knew another Sheriff of another county in another state years ago. I had to fight as a female teenager to get onto the Search and Rescue Unit. He had no women deputies in the field they only were in the offices. Two years later after I had moved the same Sheriff was indicted and convicted for theft from the department and the property room. He ended up doing time in prison. If Arapio is not careful he will be on the other side of the bars in the same pink jump suit he makes the prisoners in his jail wear. He is not above the law.

He is a crooked as the Arizona governor who put prop. 1070 into effect. Her campaign manager is one of the many friends she has who own private jails and most of the immigrants who have been picked up… guess where they are going? He helped her write this bill as it will be financially beneficial to him and probably to her. She claims that the immigrants are not going to the privately owned jails but she lies. Records prove otherwise. It really angers me that these people are getting away with such measures and others are falling in line with them hook line and sinker. People are so gullible..as soon as someone says something against the government everyone gets on board. They are the very people you go to when we have hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, bombings, laws, education, transportation, etc. and yet you let some morons tell you that government is bad. Government is necessary for order and to keep things going and without some form of government…there would be chaos.

hahaha The Dem’s are a gift that just keeps on giving, to their own demise.
I cannot wait to watch the DOJ put more nails in their coffin. After their misconduct in the stevens case and all those prosecutors that were fired. This is just more pre-election misconduct.
In the Stevens case The misconduct of government prosecutors, and one or more FBI agents, was stunning. Not only did the government fail to disclose evidence of innocence, but instead intentionally hid that evidence and created false evidence that they provided to the defense.
But how convient was it that Eric Holder dropped charges after the elections and pretended to be angered by the misconduct of prosecutors…we are going to continue to see more of this type of corruption under Obama’s administration. As the sheriff said he smiled in their faces, then turned around and sued. Obama is the lowest of
scum buckets that ever existed in politics…when the truth is out he will go down as the biggest traitor to this country of any figure in our history…Benedict Arnold will look loyal in comparison. After his 1 term is over and we get down to repairing the damage it will all come out in the wash and America will realize to never vote another person into office just based on the color of their skin. Hopefully it will awaken people to start paying attention to the actual character and experience of a candidate.

If each person did what they wanted regardless, what a crazy world we would have which I sometimes think we are headed.
Yes, It has already happened – We call them “Sanctuary Cities”. They decided not to follow the immigration law, but you do not see Holder sueing them – do ya?

“Undocumented immigration is on the decline, Mike C. On the decline.”
This single statement sums up the left on this issue.
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I’m asking a serious question of people like you and Ryan C. Where is your line in the sand? I know wher emine s, but I never hear anyone on the Left define where it is that we go from acceptable to unacceptable. How many American lives have to be destroyed before you ‘approve’ of action to be taken?
Posted by: Mike_C | Sep 3, 2010 12:45:00 AM
First, You can link directly to the report at “U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade”, Pew Hispanic Center. You can also check several analyses and stats on violence and crime on the United States side of the border with Mexico. That is also down.
Did you happen to see Governor Brewer’s very poor performance at the debate on Wed. night? The reason I mention it is that she is a fear monger of the worst kind, and not only did the governor struggle in her opening– which was painfully awkward and I admit led me to think Good God, what are the Republicans doing;all these candidates that are so inarticulate; but then I kinda felt sorry for her too– BUT then at the end, she didn’t respond to questions about her insane claims about beheadings. (Jan Brewer after-debate meltdown?, Tucson Citizen) Now, we were talking business before and frankly I think Terry Goddard gets it right when he points out that Brewer damages Arizona’s image when she lies and fearmongers and falsely portrays Arizona as a violent place because of border-related crime. It affects tourism, business prospects, and economic development.
So, when you ask where is my line in the sand, what do you mean? I believe in our Constitution and our lofty ideals even when its hard.
I find it highly offensive that Arpaio is or may be racially profiling to the extent that he is discriminating against Native Americans and American born Hispanics– and that he is hurting people, regardless of where they were born and their legal status– breaking jaws, killing people, humiliating them, mistreating them– when their only crime is crossing the border illegally. Deport them, with dignity, in keeping with basic human rights.
I agree with the President on a few things–
the politics of who is and who is not allowed to enter this country, and on what terms, has always been contentious
the borders are too porous
the system is broken and everybody knows it
we need comprehensive immigration reform
the law Arizona passed is divisiveand it puts huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable. Plus, they have the potential, at least as originally conceived, of violating the rights of innocent American citizens and legal residents, making them subject to possible stops or questioning because of what they look like.
our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons, those who broke these laws should be held accountable.
The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have more work to do.

If ya do the crime ya do the time with Sheriff Joe.
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If you look a certain way and happen to jaywalk, maybe…maybe you’ll do more than time.
Maybe you’ll die, be fed dog food, break a jaw and not be allowed to receive medical attention.Or maybe you’ll be harassed if you didn’t do a crime, if you look Native American or have brown eyes or speak Spanish.
Or maybe you’ll be the victim of a violent crime by an American and the crime will be largely ignored because he’s too busy abusing his power and racially profiling.
Let’s find out. Did he really destroy records? If so, why ?
It smells, Arpaio, it smells…

the law Arizona passed is divisiveand it puts huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable. Plus, they have the potential, at least as originally conceived, of violating the rights of innocent American citizens and legal residents, making them subject to possible stops or questioning because of what they look like.
Since we currently have the ACLU suing the govt over the idea of drone attacks against terrorists, I am very certain that they would have every cop in AZ who ever thought about racial profiling in the way all you lefties think in law suits already!
That arguement is a crock, and it is the source of fear mongering from people like you. It is an idiotic statement, if you honestly beleive that then there is no law that can be applied without profiling of some kind.
So a law is wrong if it is unenforcable or too difficult to enforce nicely? You have post after post after post, and nowhere in there do i see you standing up and saying they are breaking the LAW by being here!
It is just amazing that your so incredibly scared of enforcing the LAW we have. The system is broken, because we have allowed this to go on & on for decades. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are to blame. BUT – just because the task is difficult, does not mean that we ignore the LAW.
Local law enforcement is ALLOWED to be involved in the enforcement these immigration laws, the Supreme Court has already ruled on that.
People like you are constantly, purposely mis-representing the AZ law. It specifically forbids what you describe and you know it! Anyone who has ever been stopped for any infraction of the law is asked to produce id. As I stated before, and as border surveillance shows as FACT, undisputable FACT, it is not Japanese, South Africans, or Germans who enter the US illegally from Mexico. The vast majority are, surprise, Mexicans!!!!!
As far as your using the Constitution as you line in the sand, very commendable.
“our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders and set laws for residency and citizenship. And no matter how decent they are, no matter their reasons, those who broke these laws should be held accountable.”
LOL, You cant have it both ways here. being held accountable means being deported if your here illegally…PERIOD!!! But because we say the problem is too big, we have sanctuary cities and the claim we cant just deport 10 million people.
So, then what do you say to each and every person who ever came here legally and did it the right way? Oh, you should have just broken the law with everyone else, cause now we will just give you what you wanted all along. This entire debate is insulting to those who obeyed the LAW.
Liberals are constantly whining how horrible Wall Street or big buisness are. The claim is they always bend the rules to suit themselves, to somehow cheat the rest of us. How evil they are because they make all that money – how much it costs us. Yet, the left wants go out of the way to break the LAW for illegals.
The border needs to be secured now! All this insane spending by the foolish administration and we cant build a damn wall. Stop with the excuses – build it now! If nothing else, it would put a great number of people to work! If that border is left open and you guys create some foolish scheme for those here already to bypass the LAW, thne millions more will just come again and wait for their numbers to grow big enough that we have to do it again.

When will Arizona and all 50 states sue the federal government for not enforcing laws? When will the federal government sue Mexico for assisting illegal immigration? When will the invasion be stopped? If any other country purposely sent 12 – 15 million people illegally to the U.S. we would have declared war or at least began a “Police Action” using the military. U. S. Constitution article 4. Section 4 – Republican government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

ICE Refuses to Deport ‘Non-Violent’ Illegal Aliens
Friday, August 27, 2010
“When will Arizona and all 50 states sue the federal government for not enforcing laws? When will the federal government sue Mexico for assisting illegal immigration?” – panola
The answer does not lie in the court system. Taking the problem there is a Waste-o-Time™ and plays into the administration’s hands. What we need is for the Border States along with a few others to tell the US Government to stick it and start deporting illegal invaders themselves. Now that’s a message that will hit Obama and Holder in the head like a 4′ 2×4.

“Reportedly” that sounds like definitive journalism to me……
Yes, as in under Arpaio, addition to the numbers– violent crime rates have risen while they’ve fallen in throughout the rest of Arizona, 911 response times increased and arrest rates decreased and he admits he arrests very few non-Hispanics– he also reportedly forced a woman to give birth while handcuffed to a bed.
Um, I’m a commenter on a blog, not a journalist, and I don’t believe everything I hear, but since there are piles and piles of allegations and multiple sources have thought he was worth investigating, I say let the investigation proceed in accordance with the law. If he’s above board and as good as he himself claims, there won’t be a problem.
And/Or– at the very least– let him return the monies he’s received from the federal government in full.

“It specifically forbids what you describe and you know it!”
then you should support an investigation– the multiple investigations– to ensure the law isn’t being broken, right?

Our justice department is misguided, it goes after citizens instead of protecting them from illegal aliens.
My take is that Obama, whatever his origin, does not share our American values.
We can’t get rid of Obama in 2010, but we can clip his wings by prying his water-boy congress from his cold uncaring grip.

I think all the lefties blaming Bush for the economy really need to read the Constitution. Who is in charge of the Purse strings? The House of Representatives. Who was in control of the House? Democrats. Who was the cause of the largest deficits on record? The Democrats. Were there some fiscally irresponsible Republicans? Yes. I estimate maybe 20% of the Republicans are too liberal with my money, however I estimate 90% of the Democrats are.

If this is a “fishing expedition”, then what do you call stopping hispanic looking people and asking for their papers?
I believe that DOJ has more probable cause than MCSO.

This sounds like witch hunt.
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Really?
I’ve noticed Beck’s and Fox News’s witch hunt for alleged socialists, Marxists and communists alongside their racial and ethnic scapegoating and smear campaigns, but I don’t see how this is a witch hunt.
Typically a witch hunt arises out of a Cause or orthodoxy and vilifies a class of people– women, Hispanics, blacks, liberals, etc. For example, Arpaio may be conducting witch hunts with his sweeps. The DOJ is following up on allegations and accusations– a very long list. Over 2,700 lawsuits have been filed against him; 40,000 felony warrants remain outstanding in his jurisdiction. Why on the latter? Well, perhaps he’s too busy conducting witch hunts to deal with more violent crimes. Violence and crime have fallen in the rest of Arizona, why not in his jurisdiction?
Its worth investigating.

Our government has turned against its citizens and armed forces…
This is an outrage.

When travelling out of the USA, I am required to carry my Passport or at least a copy. When asked for, I present with no problem and am polite as a “Guest” should be. If you are a “Guest” in our country, what’s the problem?
If you libs want to support illegal immigrants, fine, but leave my paycheck alone! Too many loud mouthed libs are giving our country away!

This isn’t about “guests”, and you know it. You can pretend all you want that the only people who are getting harrassed are people here illegally, but that doesn’t make it true.

I don’t care where you are from, if you are running through the bushes after dark You should be stopped & checked out by the police. If you look like a bum & smell like a bum, then you probably are a bum & if you were in my neighborhood I would want the police to check you out.IF YOU CAN’t SPEAK EINGLISH then most likely you are ILLEGAL & the POLICE SHOULD Check YOU OUT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE OUR LAWS GO HOME, WE DON’T WANT OR NEED YOU HERE
IF THE GOVERNMENT WAS DOING THEIR JOB THE STATES WOULDN’T HAVE TO SPEND THEIR MONEY & TIME TO CHASE DOWN ILLEGALS.
I DON’T CARE WHAT OBAMA THINKS, THE STATES HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR BORDERS, & THEIR PEOPLE FROM ILLEGALS.

“Isn’t it our right to refuse to cooperate” – SwingVoter
Not only is it our right but when faced with an anti-american regime such as the Obama White House it’s your civic responsibility to refuse to cooperate.

While the Feds gleefully go after an effective sheriff is it turning a blind eye to SEIU fund-raising tactics because they benefit the Obama and his congress?
Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the Obama Federal Election Commission (FEC) has refused to investigate the SEIU’s crooked PAC fund-raising scheme.
You be the judge, it’s your government in action but you can change it in November.

Just let this man do his job. Just because our Government are acting like pansies about the immigration problem don’t mean that they can make this Sherrifs job any tougher. You people should be helping him!

What do you call illegals. If you are stopped over and over again because you speak a different language or look a different way from the norm. I am a citizen, I do not carry a passport, drivers license but not a passport. How would you like to be stopped over and over again by people we elect just because of your hair color, eyes or a tattoo. This is racial profiling and there are laws agianst it. We have illegal immigrants from many different countries not just Mexico; we give them amnesty or rights because of what is happening in their country (ethnic cleansing) is this not we as Americans are trying to do even though we are all illegals in this country. We are diversified some of us have 4 to 10 nationalities. please trace your heritage, wake up. We should be past this, but 2000 years, we are still fighting. We should be able to hold our heads high and say we are Americans land of the free, you come here and you can become the next president, business owner, or doctor. We will not turn you away because we were turned away from our beliefs that is our history and we would not do that to anyone else, but this in not who we are some of us need to be parent with a caring hand and see people as human beings not an ant one can squishes because they are the big ant eater.