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Given ACORN’s criminal history of voter registration fraud and the more recent stories concerning their breaking-and-entering into foreclosed homes, it’s no surprise that they are now screaming bloody murder over the actions of the great Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona.
ACORN is one name among many liberal politicians and organizations wanting Arpaio investigated.
CNSNews.com has the scoop:
(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.”
So let’s get this straight. Obama’s former employer ACORN, a corrupt community organizing and government shakedown organization is mad that Sheriff Arpaio isn’t allowing illegals to just go free about their business? I’m thinking that ACORN is concerned with getting more illegal voter registrations and employees than determining if Arpaio violated the illegal’s civil rights.
Fox News reports on the issue with Arpaio on the phone:
Of course, we know the truth in this matter really has to do with Arpaio’s undisputed success in his 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 bottom line is that liberal organizations and politicians don’t want our immigration laws enforced and they hate Arpaio because he actually enforces them, it’s that simple. Arpaio should be given a medal and made the head of Homeland Security. He’s doing his job effectively which, of course, means he’s going to be targeted by fraudulent groups like ACORN.
ACORN’s most recent actions:
ACORN and illegal aliens seem to have a thing for breaking-and-entering.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a hero for simply enforcing the laws we have on the books. ACORN is a scam. The whole thing against Arpaio is all politics. Arpaio is an efficient, effective and very competent government official, something the Obama administration wouldn’t know if it bit them in the rear.
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A lawsuit was filed today by the NAACP for more on the story see: “NAACP Says Bank Giants Steered Blacks toward Bad Loans”:
http://www.wtopnews.com/?.....id=1623415
Thats right it’s the banks fault!
Isn’t “civil rights” something that US citizens have a right to? Since when does anyone in this country illegally – and commiting felonies – have civil rights????
You’re right, this man is a hero. And if the rest of the country would do their job as he has, we would ALREADY HAVE SAVED OR CREATED OVER 2 MILLION JOBS, MR. PRESIDENT!!!!
What’s up with this country? Have we all gone mad?? We can’t house our own citizens – what in the world do we owe felons who enter the country illegally? Hey, it’s easy enough to get in legally. Send them home and let them try again!
I will be seriously P.O’d if this Sheriff is racked over the coals while ACORN has received a pass. Nothing came of the voter fraud during the election, or all of the money they received from the democratic party. Now this so-called President of ours is letting his former employer “organize” as they see fit. But it’s ok that ACORN breaks and enters into peoples homes. I just hope that the next house they break into, the owner’s utilize there 2 amendment rights!
A email I received. Did not find a source
Illegal immigration is KILLING this country
State of Sonora is angry at influx of Mexicans into Mexico. 9-state legislators from the Mexican state of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizonas new employer crackdown on illegal’s from Mexico. It seems that many Mexican illegal’s are now returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off about it.
A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona’s new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora – Arizona’s southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns – cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers here return to their hometowns without jobs or money. The law, which took effect Jan. 1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don’t have valid legal documents to work in the United States
Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license.
The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on their state government. ‘How can they pass a law like this?’ asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales.
‘There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,’ she said, speaking only in Spanish.
‘Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs,’ she said.
‘We are one family, socially and economically,’ she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.
Wrong!
The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico, and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexicos citizens.
It’s time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to stop parasitically feeding off of th e United States and to start taking care of its/their own needs.
Too bad all the US states don’t pass a law just like Sonora . Maybe that’s the answer, since our own Congress will not do anything!
New Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message…
1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
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2. All ballots will be in this nation’s language.
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3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
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4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
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5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office
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6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
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7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
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8. If foreigners come here and buy land, options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
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9. Foreigners may have no protests, no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
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10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted & when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.
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Too strict? The above laws are the current Immigration Laws of MEXICO!
These sound fine to me, NOW, how can we get these laws to be Americas immigration laws?
Wake Up America . . .
We Are Losing Our Country!
We are paying for the arrest of illegal or undocumented aliens in this country. Not all aliens are from Mexico or are of Hispanic or Latino descent. Some people came here on visas whether for work or education and couldn’t find a way back home and were denied visas to stay. They sometimes sit in prison waiting deportation or a court hearing to get a green card to stay but U.S. citizens are paying for the unlawful incarceration of them even though they didn’t commit murder, rape, assault, sold drugs, or anything that would be considered illegal by citizen standards. They were unable to find any way out or a way to stay in this country. But U.S. taxpayers are paying through the nose for them until they are to be deported or if they cannot find the proper legal help. Right now there is a non Hispanic man sitting in prison for over 3 1/2 years who is married to a U.S.citizen for over 5 years and has children with this woman but has not been deported or given any chance of getting released from prison. But we as taxpayers have been paying for this man for years at $100 per day which comes to approximately $127,750 for the total incarceration time. There is no sight of him being deported and the taxpayers are paying for his wife and children as well because they need help with their finances because of being a single parent family which is back on the taxpayers. Why is he not deported or released? Why is it other countries like England can release aliens for deportation within a couple of months but it takes years for the U.S. to deport their aliens and leaving families in a limbo of U.S. red tape and taxpayers flipping the bill?
They should praise this man for doing his job and doing it well and doing it right. Something obviously our own government doesn’t know how to do.