Once again, you expected something different?
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial “crime suppression operations” despite a Department of Homeland Security decision to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status, the East Valley Tribune reports.
“It’s all politics,” says Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County.
Arpaio will still have the power to check the immigration status of people booked by his officers, but not the authority to conduct street patrols looking for illegal immigrants…
…Arpaio said he will be able to still conduct the crime sweeps under state human smuggling laws and an obscure federal law that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants…
Our Department of “Justice”, too busy to check in to voter intimidation, but the government has the time to go after one of the premier law enforcers of the United States? DHS has nothing better to do than this? Oh, wait a second; I think I understand this:
We have to be careful, here…you see, the criminal gangs which ruthlessly exploit the illegals might have their profits cut if we start enforcing immigration laws and so, naturally, the government is engaged in the vital task of making certain the laws aren’t enforced.
Makes sense to me…
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