Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a No Nonsense Stand Up Guy

Tough guy, no nonsense, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s posse arrested 73 illegals during March and April.  Most of you have heard of Joe Arpaio and his old school ways of running a prison, a tent city prison.  He has managed to save taxpayers thousands upon thousands of dollars by denying perks to criminals.  Let’s not forget that he likes to humiliate the criminals by making them wear pink underwear, tee-hee. 

Here is some of the recent article in MSNBC online. 

Sheriff raising furor with immigration raids

A total 73 illegal immigrants were arrested in recent crackdown

	In this file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sits behind his desk next to a sign for the Tent City prison camp with a vacancy sign. Among the rules for inmates there are hard labor, haircuts, bologna sandwiches, pink underwear and no smoking or coffee.  View related photos
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updated 3:58 p.m. ET, Fri., April. 25, 2008

GUADALUPE, Ariz. – The self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America” has been making forays into Phoenix and nearby Guadalupe and sweeping up illegal immigrants, drawing howls of protest from the cities’ mayors and other community leaders.

Oh, boo-hoo, I am crying a river.  Mayors and community leaders who care more about the “rights” of ILLEGAL ALIENS are upset.  I would think they would be cheering, but whatever. 

While Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has legal authority to enforce the law in cities within his county, politicians and activists are accusing him of grandstanding and, worse, racial profiling.

That’s right, he has legal authority.  Emphasis above is mine.

“I was upset. We did not request them here,” said Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez, who charged that the patrols were meant to raise Arpaio’s profile for his re-election campaign this year.

OMG, a mayor of a town is upset that the sheriff is doing his job.  WTF?  So, she didn’t request them.  I guess that means she didn’t want to get rid of ILLEGAL ALIENS in her town.  Hey, bring in the cheap labor and keep citizens on welfare or other assistance.  Cheap for business, expensive for hardworking taxpayers.  Nice.

Racial profiling alleged
As for Phoenix, Mayor Phil Gordon said Arpaio should be concentrating on more pressing duties such as finding people with warrants against them, and he has asked for a federal civil rights investigation, complaining the sheriff is singling out people who are “driving with a broken taillight or have brown skin.” The U.S. Justice Department refused to comment.

Blah, blah, wah, wah.  The U.S. Department of Justice should comment, and comment on the side of Sheriff Joe.

He began pushing the boundaries on immigration three years ago when he set up a special unit to deal with people sneaking across the border. Since then, his office has arrested 900 illegal immigrants under a state human smuggling law and set up a hot line for reporting immigration violations.

Good for him!

Arpaio said the recent sweeps were prompted in part by business owners’ complaints about crime among illegal immigrants.

Well I guess some business people care more about thier communities than just the old mighty dollar.

He said the 150 people arrested were approached or pulled over in traffic stops because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes. It was only afterward that deputies found nearly half were illegal immigrants, the sheriff said.

Civil rights advocates said Arpaio is spreading fear among Hispanics, illegal or not. “You have cooks, landscapers, nannies afraid to drive,” said Hector Yturralde, president of the group Somos America.

If they are here legally, they have nothing to “fear.”

Some praise efforts
Still, many others in Arizona are frustrated over the flow of illegal immigrants across the border, and the sheriff has received hundreds of letters of support, along with a request from a group of state lawmakers to go into Mesa. (Arpaio said he is planning a sweep in Mesa but is reluctant to warn the police department there for fear the chief will tip off the community and stir up demonstrations.)

That’s pretty freakin sad when a police chief works against law and order.

Judith Bederka, a retired postal worker from Mesa, said Arpaio is the only local official doing something about illegal immigration. “He is doing what everybody wants him to do,” Bederka said.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said the sheriff has stayed within the bounds of an agreement that gave special immigration training and powers to 160 of his officers. The agency said it knows of no abuses by Arpaio’s office.

Weeks after the crackdown, 20 Spanish-speaking day laborers gathered at a dusty intersection to wait for people to offer them work. Ramon Arajon Contreras, a laborer from Mexico who has lived in Guadalupe for eight years, said the sweep frightened him so much that he hid out in his house until it was over. He said he is still afraid.

Well now, MSNBC was able to find this dude and interview him.  What has happened to him now?  Has he been sent back?  Probably not.  If he is hear legally, he has nothing to be afraid of.

Oh, and now the best for last. 

“If I see immigration officers,” he said, “it’s like I see the devil.”

If you are so afraid of Diablo, go back home and Diablo won’t bother you. 

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