maricopa county: Page 1
Discussed in (click each link for the full post):
DOJ investigation claims Sheriff Joe Arpaio engaged in "unconstitutional policing" (immigration, Arizona, Maricopa County) - 12/15/11
... politically-motivated quasi-witchhunt of Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has concluded with a report claiming that Arpaio engaged in "unconstitutional policing" and unreasonably targeted Latinos.
You can read the report here, and make sure and see my notes below. First, from the New York Times writeup by Marc Lacey (link):
After an investigation that lasted more than three years, the...
DOJ sues Joe Arpaio over civil rights investigation documents - 09/02/10
... sued Joe Arpaio - sheriff of Maricopa County - claiming that he's obstructed their investigation into possible racial profiling. This is, needless to say, the Obama administration's latest attack on Arizona in an attempt to prevent states from doing the job the federal government won't do: try to reduce illegal immigration. And, those attacks are preventable if people would work to reduce...
Mexican flag, Cuban flag with Che fly at protest against Arizona immigration law - 07/30/10
... arrested in total by Phoenix and Maricopa County officers... In Tucson, authorities arrested 13 in similar street demonstrations.
Arizona helped deport 26,000 illegal aliens under 287g (Arpaio, Maricopa County) - 07/28/10
... article, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona helped deport more than 26,000 illegal aliens under the 287g program. That's of course without that state's new immigration law, which is set to take effect tomorrow. Maricopa was responsible for about one-quarter of all those deported under 287g (115,841 total); 64 local agencies are part of the 287g program.
Also:
Joanne Lin, legislative...
Arpaio deputies to get private training in enforcing immigration law; ACLU outraged (Kobach) - 02/10/10
According to this, all Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies will receive private training "on the authority of local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law". Previously, just 100 of their deputies had received training from the Department of Homeland Security, but the DHS dropped that last year. Law professor and candidate for Attorney General of Kansas Kris Kobach will be providing the...
ACLU sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged racial profiling (Dan Pochoda) - 08/19/09
... activity inside the U.S. - is suing Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for alleged racial profiling and related issues (aclu.org/immigrants/workplace/40777prs20090819.html). According to the ACLU, a father and son - the first a long-term legal resident, the second a U.S. citizen - were detained by Arpaio's deputies while they were conducting an immigration raid at a business:
The...
Maricopa County board delays Arpaio immigration enforcement funding - 04/02/09
... Washington DC about the 287g program, Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has problems on the home front (link):
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday voted to postpone the acceptance of $1.6 million from the state to help pay for illegal immigration enforcement by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Republican-majority board until now has consistently supported Arpaio and generally...
DOJ investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio over supposed racial profiling (Lofgren, Conyers, Nadler, Robert Scott, ACORN) - 03/12/09
... launched an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona following requests by congressional Democrats and allegations by liberal activists that the department has violated the civil rights of illegal aliens.
Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), and Robert Scott (D-Va.) requested the investigation, and activists groups such as (...
Janet Napolitano blocks Sheriff Joe Arpaio's funding for immigration enforcement - 05/13/08
... this:
Much of the money for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration-enforcement efforts lately has poured out of a special pool of state money.
But New Times has learned that Governor Janet Napolitano's turning off the spigot.
In what appears to be a prelude to a major fight between Napolitano and Arpaio, the governor issued an executive order last week to develop a new task...
Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon files FBI complaint over Joe Arpaio raids - 04/13/08
... wants the FBI to investigate Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over whether any civil rights laws were broken civil rights laws during his recent immigration sweeps (link).
In the letter, Gordon race baits, does something no one should do and relies on the characterization of an Arizona Republic editorial ("guilty of looking latino", link), and he also apparently included other news reports...
WFMOJALI: Kyrsten Sinema (Minutemen as "domestic terrorists") - 01/19/07
... Arizona's new anti-smuggling law. Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has been arresting and trying to prosecute illegal aliens for smuggling themselves into the U.S. under that law. The sponsor of the original law, Rep. Jonathan Paton, says it was meant to be applied just to the smugglers. However, his original intent is probably not the major consideration in Sinema's, and Lujan's, and...
Maricopa County sued over anti-smuggling law; Mexico links - 11/22/06
... filed by various groups against Maricopa County, Arizona (home of Phoenix) concerning a state law designed to stop human smuggling. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been using that law to arrest and charge illegal aliens with smuggling themselves into the country. Since starting that earlier this year, they've managed 180 convictions (two by jury) out of 360...
- Want more coverage? Sponsor posts here
- Help hold politicians accountable: promote the plan to intellectually engage politicians by asking them tough questions on video. Take a few minutes right now and promote that plan.
- Tired of CNN's bogus debates? Help promote policy debates, with experts - not newscasters - quizzing politicians about the downsides and side-effects of their policies.
- Actually, there is a debate about skilled immigration.
- Vote up this plan to get immigration enforcement considered as a way to reduce unemployment.
- How to stop amnesty and minimize illegal immigration
- To reduce illegal immigration, discredit intermediaries
- How to ask politicians tough questions
- Get anti-"Birthers" to take this test
- Join the TiredOfTeaParty page on Facebook
- Follow FWD US (Forward US) is wrong
- Topics - easy-to-use categorized listing of our 9,000+ posts since 2002
- Top topics
- How and why the Teaparty movement should be opposed.
Random topics:
- 07/19/2008: Newsweek at least tries to ask about Juan Hernandez (John McCain)
- 08/17/2006: Hazleton's immigration enforcement to be only after the fact
- 12/23/2006: George Bush's Christmas gift for railroaded Border Patrol agents
- 02/17/2005: "License Denials for Immigrants Are Blocked"
- 04/17/2007: Hillary Clinton's Very Bad DREAM
- 03/07/2007: ICE raids Michael Bianco Inc. in Boston; Yvonne Abraham
- 06/13/2007: welcometousa.gov: the U.S. commodified and reduced to a possible convention location
- 12/06/2005: AP: "Illegal hiring fuels problem"
- 12/15/2004: "Former Claremont professor who faked vandalism gets year in jail"
- 10/08/2003: "Where can I buy crack in the mid-Hudson River Valley region of New York State?"
- Illegal immigration: an introduction
- See the top posts in the last 45 days.
- Monthly archives
- Here are five things you can do about the Obama administration's lawsuit over Arizona's immigration law.
- Need a correction? Spot an error? Post about it here
- See the Assignment Desk.
