Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I don't take orders from anybody

[SoCalDem]

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/10/17/sheriff-joe-arpaio-i-dont-take-orders-from-anybody/

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: I don't take orders from anybody. Christian Science Monitor

Refusal by ‘America’s toughest sheriff’ to stop immigration sweeps fits into the career of a controversial populist.
By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer/ October 17, 2009 edition

Much like the late Jefferson Parish, La., Sheriff Harry Lee did, Maricopa, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio walks the line between all-powerful baron and populist champion of law and order. On Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Mr. Arpaio to stop using the authority of the federal 287g program — which deputizes local law enforcement to help federal agents target illegal immigrants — as part of street sweeps in Phoenix that have primarily led to arrests of people who haven’t committed any serious crimes. Arpaio refused as he headed a 12th major anti-immigration operation through the metro Phoenix county today.

“The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is the only law-enforcement agency in the country to lose its authority to enforce federal immigration laws on the street under a revamped and controversial program that lets local and state agencies act as immigration officers,” the Arizona Republic reported.

“”You know what? They can take away anything they want. I’m still the elected sheriff,” Sheriff Arpaio told Fox News’ Glenn Beck this week. “I’m still going to enforce the state laws and I’m going to enforce the federal laws.”

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Federal courts have fought back against Arpaio, finding him guilty in 2008 of constitutional violations after cutting inmate meals back to two a day (at a cost of 15 cents each) and sometimes serving moldy bread and fruits. Arpaio says he gets his power from state and federal authority, not ICE regulations. Now it looks like it may take another federal judge to determine not only whether Arpaio can legally continue the sweeps, but whether they, as critics charge, amount to racial profiling — a charge that ICE has tried to avoid.

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He's setting up for an armed confrontation
Joe also probably wants to force SCOTUS to get into this, and to set precedent for immigration..and to stir up the MinuteMen gang..

[bluestateguy]

1. Eric Holder can send a couple of beefy FBI agents to Phoenix who may help you change your mind Joe

nt

[wroberts189]

11. That would be very nice.. like a glass of lemonade in his desert tent prisons. nt

[hurricanesfan27]

2. scumbag

I sincerely hope DOJ indicts this POS and he becomes someones bitch in his own jail.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Ah! Glorious martyrdom awaits!

It worked for General Singlaub ...

--d!

[LuvNewcastle]

4. He needs to be brought down hard.

No elected official should ever say that they answer to no one.

[havocmom]

16. Having his deputies arrest people for politely applauding at an open meeting of county commissioners

Oh, baby, busting brown people who were NOT being disruptive at an open meeting... that should have ended his career in America right there.

Evidently, Racist Joe doesn't think the US Constitution and various state instruments are the boss of him either. Time to make the little dictator hunker in a bunker to contemplate his fate.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/arizona-sheriff-turns-county-meeting

[47of74]

5. He's going to enforce the laws? That'd be a first.

The only laws that idiot ever gave a damn about were the ones that let him act like a Nazi.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

6. I predict this won't end well for Ol' Joe............

He's a little too hungry for power and ready to make examples of his prisoners for my likes. He needs to be reined in big-time.

[wroberts189]

10. If there is such a thing as Karma ...he is long past due. nt

[cynatnite]

7. Who needs the law when you are the law?

I do hate people like this.

[paulsby]

8. arpaio may be right

in other words, it's going to take the federal legislature to CHANGE 287g. ICE doesn't have (as far as i know) the authority to cherry pick which agencies can and can't take part in activities authorized under 287g.

if he's committed violations of the law, then he can certainly be prosecuted/sued. but i don't see where ICE has the authority to tell him not to enforce a law.

[struggle4progress]

13. 287g permits a delegation of authority by the Secretary of Homeland Security; ultimate authority

is still Federal, and there is no obligation to delegate it

Section 287(g), Immigration and Nationality Act;
Delegation of Immigration Authority
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/factsheets/070622factsheet287gprogover.htm

[paulsby]

19. thank you

that's an excellent link .

i now change my view to arpaio MAY be right, to arpaio is WRONG.

kudos to you for educating me.

fwiw, i've always thought arpaio is a putz. my in-laws are both retired cops and live in maricopa county. they think he is a putz too.

[wroberts189]

9. Time to put him in pink underwear and stick him in his own tent city...

What a big jerk... "I am the law ..but I do not have to follow it."

wrong answer


on edit ..I am sure he will love those 15 cent bologna meals and 120 degree heat.

[Monk06]

12. What we have here ............

...... is a failure to communicate.

[XanaDUer]

14. He'll take order from the Justice Dept.

It's about time this despot has had some oversight. I hate this prick.

[Joe Chi Minh]

15. What's he saying? He's lawless .... a criminal on the wrong side of the bars?

[SoCalDem]

20. He wants a confrontation, so he can be a martyr

Apparently he's "the right guy for the job", in the area he "serves", and knows his devotees will hear the dog-whistle & rise up to glorify him. He wants the national spotlight.

[ecstatic]

17. Lock his ass up! Preferably in the same cell as the people

he detained. He is not above the law!

[rucky]

21. Fit him for a pink jumpsuit!

[SoCalDem]

22. 2 sizes too small..so it binds , chafes & pinches

:rofl:

[havocmom]

18. Five part, multi-media report for more background on Storm Trooper Joe

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/page/reasonable_doubt

Love the interactive map/chart showing the slowing response times of his officers. Law and order my ass! He is a vigilante who serves his own agenda, not the law. Reminds me a bit of a vigilante sheriff in Old Montana who was more the problem than the solution to crime in the area.

One wonders how much better Maricopa criminals are faring with the Sheriff's posse so focused on rousting innocent brown people. Taxpayers not getting their money's worth for sure.