Posted on 01/16/2008 11:13:25 AM PST by Tarantulas
Date: January 10, 2008
BROKEN BORDERS … BROKEN JUSTICE
SHERIFF STEPS IN WHERE THE COURTS HAVE FAILED
ARPAIO BANS JAILED ILLEGALS FROM WORK PROGRAMS
(Phoenix, AZ) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he is instituting a new jail policy aimed at fighting the illegal immigration problem which plagues not only the community at large but also the Sheriff's jail system.
The Sheriff is now suspending work release programs ordered by the courts which have allowed convicted illegal aliens to be released from jail during their work hours in order to go to jobs that they are prohibited by law from even having.
Despite the Employer Sanctions Law which took effect January 1, local law enforcement and courtroom judges continue to ignore arrestees' residential status which ultimately allows illegal aliens access to work release programs.
Arpaio says everyone connected to the criminal justice system, where possible, needs to inquire as to an arrestee's residential status to prevent convicted inmates from being diverted to work release programs when these same people are not allowed by law to be working in this country.
So far, it appears that only the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is working to ascertain this information from arrestees, Arpaio say.
In the last four months, nearly 160 illegal immigrants have been identified by ICE trained Sheriff's officers as illegal aliens participating in court ordered work release programs. The Sheriff is revoking their work privileges and placing those illegal aliens into permanent lockdown to serve their full sentences.
Upon completion of their sentences, these illegal aliens are subject to deportation to their home countries.
"To my way of thinking, judges have the opportunity to easily determine whether the person standing before them, who has been convicted of a crime, is here in this country legally or not.
Judges apparently have an attitude of don't ask, don't tell," says Arpaio. "So we're going to ask and we’re going to tell."
Arpaio says the criminal justice system is failing its citizenry by not adequately addressing the illegal immigration problem when the opportunity arises.
"The judges aren't asking and the police officer on the street is often prohibited by department policy from asking a person’s residence status," says Arpaio. "There are opportunities within our criminal justice system to identify and deport people who are in this country illegally and many are turning a blind eye. It's a travesty."
I want Arpaio in the Thompson/Hunter Administration
Perhaps Joe should be made the FENCE CZAR. He might actually get the job done, as opposed to Jorge, McLame and the rest of the RINO weasels in DC.
I don't think the ruling elite would allow any of that.
BUMP
Butler County, Ohio, eh? Very cool, glad to see it. The lefties are saying that local jurisdictions shouldn’t enforce federal law, and in some cases the local jurisdictions agree with that. But now that we have a State law saying the same thing, they can’t say much. All they can do is try to get a judge to declare the State law unconstitutional. So far they have failed miserably at doing that.
I like this guy, wish we had more people like him.
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