Another Great Job by the Libs

[wishniwasfishn]

Read this, and if it dosent make you sick at your stomach, I dont know what will!!!! Its absolutely shameful, and these people need to be targeted for removal of office.

"CNSNews.com) - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has 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 National Day Laborer Organizer Network and ACORN launched petition drives and rallies in support of the probe.

The investigation focuses on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and dozens of officers under his command who were trained through the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ACCESS), which partners federal and local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws. (The Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division is known popularly as ICE.)

In a letter dated March 10, 2009, Loretta Smith, acting assistant attorney general at the DOJ, detailed what her department would be investigating:

"This is to inform you that the United States Department of Justice is commencing an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (''MCSO'') pursuant to the pattern or practice provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. §14141 ("Section 14141") and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968,42 U.S.C. § 3789d ("Safe Streets Act"), and pursuant to the prohibitions against national origin discrimination in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-7 ("Title Yr') and the Safe Streets Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3789d(c)."

The letter continues: "The investigation will focus on alleged patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures conducted by the MCSO, and on allegations of national origin discrimination, including failure to provide meaningful access to MCSO services for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals."

"In conducting the investigation, we will seek to determine whether there are violations of the above laws by the MCSO," the letter says.

Sheriff Arpaio's efforts to enforce immigration laws have been the focus of previous criticism, but Arpaio has defended his department and the results his ICE-trained officers have netted.

Concerning the DOJ’s investigation, Arpaio told CNSNews.com: “I will not back down. What I am doing is upholding the laws of the state of Arizona, and I will not be persuaded to turn my back on my oath of office as sheriff of this county.”

In an August 2008 press release, Arpaio's office detailed those results.

"While the Sheriff’s illegal immigration and human smuggling operations conducted on the streets and roadways here have netted nearly 2,300 arrests, another very successful effort to locate illegal aliens has been quietly happening inside Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails," the release said.

It continues: "Despite the growing criticism of the Sheriff’s illegal immigration fight by some valley politicians and activists, Sheriff Arpaio says 60 detention officers trained by ICE officials have conducted over 106,000 interviews and investigations of inmates booked into jail since April of 2007.

"In those 18 months, 16,000 inmates were determined to be illegal aliens. Either they have already been deported or will be deported after being tried and/or serving their sentences for crimes committed in the valley. The work being done be Arpaio’s detention staff is a likely contributor to the recent reduction in crime in the valley,” the press release added.

"That number of 16,000 represents a full one-third (1/3) of all inmates in the United States who have had holds placed on them after being identified by jail or prison officials as illegal aliens."

The press release goes on to say that 20 percent of inmates in the Maricopa County Jail are illegal aliens and that of those, 2,000 illegal aliens - 70 percent - were arrested for felony crimes.

Those felony crimes committed included the following: forgery, 12 percent; kidnapping, 10 percent; aggravated assault, 7 percent; driving under the influence, 7 percent; drug charges, 27 percent; robbery, 3 percent; murder, 3 percent; and theft, 4 percent.

The Democratic Congress members have also asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to launch an investigation into the training provided by ICE."

I didnt realize that someone here illegally had any civil rights, give me a %$&*ing break!!

[Tyme2fish]

According to my World Book Dictionary Published 1985 ( Yeh it's old and so am I )

Civil rights: The rights of a citizen, especially those quaranteed to all citizens of the United States,regardless of race,color,or sex by the Bill of Rights,the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th ammendments to the Constitution.

The dictionary service on AOL provides the following meaning:

Civil rights: rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than political rights, which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike natural rights, civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis. In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific rights guaranteed in the Constitution: freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, and the rights to due process of law and to equal protection under the law.

So someone has changed the term from citizen to inhabitant.

What letter in illegal do these people not understand.

Go get 'em Sheriff Joe!! Keep getting them and deport their illegal butts out of the U.S.A.

If you want to enter and live in my country, you play by the rules and obey all laws, including the law to enter this country legally.

[wishniwasfishn]

Its a shame they want to hang this man for doing his job, and doing it well. He is enforcing the laws put in place by these idiots. If people dont wake up soon, its going to be to late, and we will be overun with illegal immigrants, they are already putting a strain on our economy, and it will only get worse. I just dont understand why nobody wants to see the handwriting on the wall and do something about it.

[greenriverman1]

We need a Sheriff Joe for our pres!

DA

[apb]

I have no problem detaining illegals, deporting them, jailing those who broke the law and then deporting them. May be I am missunderstanding some of the other comments. Seems that some beleive that if someone is an illegal alien, then they can be misstreated with no recourse. Am I reading that wrong?

Andrew

[Bobby Headrick]

Honestly they have more rights at this time than citizens and our citizens are discrimated against while they are allowed to get benifits that if they were legal citizens they could not get. IE, if an couple comes in and they are born, bred, legal US citizens and they make over 1900 mth, which is the income limit for a hh of 3, they are denied food benifits/stamps, if an illegal family same size same income, they will receive that maxium amt of food stamps that one citizen would receive,, this is for the US born child, ancor baby, 200 mth food stamps. Why they divide the income by 3 and only a portion is counted. Fair I say not, it is a crime against legal citizens and discrimation. Just some food for thought so that all you tax payer know how your money is spent.

[DJD]

Like I said before about all our money being spent over seas for Hamas, Gaza Strip and whatever! Spend the millions/billions here and build a state of the art fence and hire more Immigration officials (more jobs in both cases). Heck man dig a 50ft ditch I don't care just stop the bleeding!

[BubbaBass1]

I have no problem detaining illegals, deporting them, jailing those who broke the law and then deporting them. May be I am missunderstanding some of the other comments. Seems that some beleive that if someone is an illegal alien, then they can be misstreated with no recourse. Am I reading that wrong?

Andrew

What is mistreatment? Detainment for crossing the border illegally? I don't believe most on this board want to continue to house, feed, and clothe illegals. I don't believe most on this board condone mistreatment of ANY human being. But the definition of mistreatment has many meanings. I for one do not believe an illegal alien has any constitutional rights inside the US border. The only right they may have is to "go RIGHT back where they came from.

BB1

[roadrunner]

We are going to have a revolution some day if this keeps up. They are already having tea parties.

[DJD]

Its a shame they want to hang this man for doing his job, and doing it well. He is enforcing the laws put in place by these idiots. If people dont wake up soon, its going to be to late, and we will be overun with illegal immigrants, they are already putting a strain on our economy, and it will only get worse. I just dont understand why nobody wants to see the handwriting on the wall and do something about it.

We don't have a Politician worth his salt that will ever stand up and do something about this, from any party! The politicians are self serving liars every last one of them.
Joe has been under attack for years and when he was asked during an interview if he would go into politics (years ago) he laughed and said no way. He is smart!

[pontooner]

Like I said before about all our money being spent over seas for Hamas, Gaza Strip and whatever! Spend the millions/billions here and build a state of the art fence and hire more Immigration officials (more jobs in both cases). Heck man dig a 50ft ditch I don't care just stop the bleeding!

That's just it. How do you stop them from crossing. They are a lot more resourceful than you think and no matter what you put up, dig........ they will find a way.