Arpaio makes only 36 arrests (and only 6 suspected 'illegals') in latest two-day sweep

[pinboy3niner]

Arpaio makes 36 arrests in latest sweep
by Dustin Gardiner - Jul. 31, 2010 01:36 PM
The Arizona Republic


Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest crime-suppression sweep netted 36 arrests, including six people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

The two-day Valleywide enforcement effort, which ended at midnight Friday, was hampered by delays caused by protesters and monsoon storms, said Jeff Sprong, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.

The sweep was scheduled to start Thursday morning but was postponed for several hours while deputies dealt with protesters blocking roadways in downtown Phoenix.
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Arpaio's deputies have arrested 968 people in their operations dating back to March 2008. Of those, 714 were suspected of being in the country illegally, according to the Sheriff's Office.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/07/31/20100731arizona-immigration-arpaio-sweep-arrests-rbrk31.html#ixzz0vJsvRgtW

It looks like Sheriff Joe's sweeps yielded only about half his average number of arrests--thanks largely to the protesters in Phoenix. Unintended--but positive--consequences that probaby didn't put the Sheriff in a good mood. :thumbsup:

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #2 for, the p.o.s. needs to be charged for denying Constitutional rights

Not that wingnuts observe the Constitution at the same time that they are yapping about how they hold it sacred.

ARPAIO was threatening to arrest demonstrators when the court ruling came down. Uh, isn't there something about "peaceful assembly" and "redress of grievances" involved?!1

What about his tent prisons in the heat and sand, uh, "cruel and unusual punishment"?!1


As Shrub said, "It's just a gawddamned piece of paper!1"

[lbrtbell]

8. Arpaio violates every race's rights equally

White and black people have died while in his custody, and many more of them have been abused by his goons. It's just that Hispanics are in vogue right now, so that's what gets all the attention in the media.

FWIW, there's no "sand" in Arizona, just dirt. As for the heat, Arpaio's justification is that, if America's troops can handle being in the intense heat in places like Iraq, criminals can handle the heat of Tent City. DISCLAIMER: His philosophy, not mine.

I was, however, highly amused when he offered to house Paris Hilton in Tent City, when California claimed overpopulation as a reason to let her get off nearly scot-free. I would have loved to see her in Tent City. She wouldn't have been the first millionaire there (*cough* Charles Barkley *cough*). :D

[JonLP24]

13. I know it is not your philosphy

but he is incorrect. The tents (most troops live in trailers or buildings) are powered by generators which blow air conditioning. They go out from time to time of course but most of the time they are blowing cold air. Arpaio's tents don't have any AC whatsoever.

[UTUSN]

17. My point with the demonstrators was not that Hispanics are "in vogue"

They happen to be the ones in his direct aim and proximity with regard to violation of their rights. That "White and black people have died while in his custody" and "abused by his goons" underscores his trashing of universal rights.

[spanone]

2. he's a good little nazi soldier

[Bobbieo]

3. What the hell did he expect. That illegals would stay here waiting to be picked up by him.

Arpaio and that idiot governor have ruined this state.

[lbrtbell]

6. No, Obama ruined Arizona

He's the one that offered Janet Napolitano a job in his administration. Not that anyone put a gun to her head to force her to take it, but if the offer hadn't been there, she would still have been governor until her term had expired.

That's why I get so sick of him whining about Arizona's immigration law. Hey, Obama, if Janet were still governor, she would have vetoed the law, and none of this would be happening!

Oh, yeah, and if you'd send more than roughly 550 guards to the Arizona border, maybe the locals wouldn't be desperate enough to want a law like this.

1200 people to guard the U.S./Mexico border...that's like trying to stop a flood with a Shamwow.

[Bobbieo]

9. I see you are starting off to win the DU popularity contest. of the year. I know

how you feel about Janet and somewhat feel the same way. i wish things would have turned out differently and she would have turned down his offer, but she didn't. So, shit happens!!!!

[pinboy3niner]

10. You mean in addition to the 20,000 feds ALREADY on the border...

...thousands of them in Arizona?

The federal government "doing nothing" about border security is an RW talking point, and it's false. Border security is tighter than it has ever been. It's not perfect, but we could put 100,000 troops on the border and it still wouldn't be perfect. And conservatives would still insist that we can't tackle comprehensive immigration reform until we "secure the border first". It's a BIG mistake to buy into the RW BS. There's an agenda there, and it's not pretty...

[blondeatlast]

12. I wonder if the people posting this drivel over and over again realize that no one, but no one,

knows the border security issue better than Napolitano--and I trust her advisement to the POTUS implicitly.

[pinboy3niner]

14. And selecting a Secretary of Homeland Security...

...shouldn't be driven by collateral political implications. Blaming Obama for Arizona seems like something only someone who has an axe to grind would do, reaching for anything, no matter how ridiculous, to use to accuse him. And what a reach (more like a stretch) it is! Should he have chosen someone less qualified, less capable, because of the politics? Could he have foreseen the actions Brewer would take? It smells to me like more of the kind of scapegoating the Right is so good at.

[rhett o rick]

4. I am curous how much that costs per illegal arrested. nm

[rhett o rick]

5. With about 10 million illegals in the US, and Sheriff Joe arresting them at the rate of about 300

per year, it would take 33,333 years to get them all. And that's only if no more enter the US (currently they are entering at the rate of 4 million per year). I would say Sheriff Joe has job security.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Your figure for the current rate is wrong--it's dropped to 175,000

According to the Pew Hispanic Report:

As for immigration to the U.S. from Mexico, data from several sources attest to recent substantial decreases in the number of new arrivals.

The inflow began to diminish in mid-decade, and has continued to do so through early 2009, according to an analysis of the latest available population surveys from both countries. This finding is reinforced by data from the U.S. Border Patrol showing that apprehensions of Mexicans attempting to cross illegally into the United States decreased by a third between 2006 and 2008.

Immigration flows from Mexico, like those from other countries, surged in the late 1990s. Immigration flows dropped by 2002 before beginning to grow again in 2004. But the slowdown in immigration after 2006 was such that by 2008, flows were down at least 40% from mid-decade. The change was driven largely by unauthorized immigrants; flows of legal permanent residents have been steady this decade.
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By the period spanning March 2008 to March 2009, the estimated annual inflow of immigrants from Mexico—about 175,000 as estimated from the Current Population Survey—was lower than at any point during the decade and only about half of the average for the previous two years (Table 2).

http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/112.pdf

[rhett o rick]

16. Thanks for the correction. Here is a link to one of my sources

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/11/national/main6197466.shtm

[pinboy3niner]

18. Not your fault

The media seem to be getting a lot of things wrong lately. Just a few days ago, AP mistakenly attributed "25% of US deportations" to 'Sheriff Joe' Arpaio. Actually, the story showed that his arrests led to 25% of total deportations attributable to the 60-odd communities participating in a federal program, not total U.S. deportations. His actual rate of all U.S. deportations--about 3.5%--was still high for a local jurisdiction, but AP was very sloppy and inaccurate in reporting the statistics (which made headlines around the country).

The nonpartisan Pew Hispanic Center is a good resource on immigration issues, and DHS and subordinate agencies have the government data (though it can be difficult to navigate to find the data you're looking for).

Too often, we're at the mercy of the media for information--which, too often, turns out to be inaccurate and unreliable.

[blondeatlast]

7. Give a guy a break; the tanks were in the shop (can't take the desert heat) so he was stuck to a .50

caliber machine gun...

What a tax-wasting assbutt media toe-licker he is.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/07/joe_arpaio_heads_to_gila_bend.php

[pinboy3niner]

15. What, he didn't have drones on call?

I bet he'd love to get his hands on those.

One report on the arrests of protesters on Thursday described officers watching remote feeds from videocameras--and officers on the street being directed via their headphones to get "the guy in the gray hat." I'm wondering whether that might be problematical in the cases where a journalist and two legal observers were arrested. The journalist was hemmed in by the protesters, but the legal observers seem to believe they were targeted.