Feds limit Arizona sheriff's immigration powers

[mikesilvia]

First, Obama has cut the number of people paroling our boarder with Mexico and now he is limiting the power of local law enforcement to enforce immigration law.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office faces racial profiling allegations over crime and immigration sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix, said officials from Washington won't let him renew a deal that let his deputies make federal immigration arrests.

The U.S. government, which does most of the nation's immigration enforcement, is changing its rules for allowing local police to enforce more expansive federal immigration laws. Nationally, more than 1,000 local police and jail officers have been granted the power since 2002 to make immigration requests and speed up deportations.

Arpaio has more officers with the special powers than any other local police agency in the country. For more than two years, 100 of his deputies have made immigration arrests and another 60 jail officers have identified inmates who are illegal immigrants.

I find this the funniest:

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office faces racial profiling allegations over crime and immigration sweeps in some heavily Latino areas

Apparently, the police should stop profiling for Mexicans and be more broad by searching for Canadians, Africans and Japanese. Because we all know that Canadians are taking a boat to Mexico and entering the U.S. through the Mexican border. Silly for him to actually look for South Americans here illegally!

And my favorite part:

"All he has to do is get people to the jail, rather than being able to question them about their immigration status on the street," said Friedland, whose group advocates for low-income immigrants.

Apparently we get to pick and choose what laws are actually laws. Going across the border illegally is legal I guess.

It is like arresting a guy for rape in a house, but you can't actually ask anyone if he entered the house illegally.

[Titantron]

The racial profiling thing is such a joke. Its so sad that people pretend to take it seriously. This is worse than the racial profiling accusations(ploys) in all black neighborhoods. Those are rediculous because 95% of the area is black. This is not even possible since 100% of the sweep has to be Mexican. There is nothing racial about it. It would be legal/illegal profiling and wouldnt the profiling be the entire point of the sweep. Its just more underhanded attempts to cheat the system.

[jvansande]

how else are they able to vote and get healthcare

[angel0430]

I think this has to do wiht the idea that they are going to give the Health Care to Illegal Immigrants. Now they really want them in here so they can get more votees