Posted on 08/04/2009 8:07:47 PM PDT by freespirited
Perhaps Joe should arrest 0bama. Some of those Mexicans have stronger paper trails than he does.
LOL!!!!!
Might be an interesting standoff if Joe tells the feds and obammy to go to hell.
I don't know if I understand, but I thought:
Illegal entry was a misdemeanor punishable by fines, jail, and deportation, while illegal re-entry is a felony punishable by fines, jail, and deportation, while illegal presence was a civil violation punishable by fines, jail, and deportation.
Keep in mind that these are federal laws and have nothing to do with the county sheriff
But, Maricopa County, AZ has a law unique to the state and the nation.
The County Attorney, Andrew Thomas, interpreted a state law making human smuggling a felony to include any illegal who paid a smuggler(coyote) to bring him in. Under this interpretation, the illegal, by paying the smuggler, had entered into a conspiracy with the smuggler and had committed a felony.
When Sheriff Joe arrests an illegal on this charge, the county attorney usually pleads the illegal down to a misdemeanor and time served. Occasionally he will charge an illegal with the felony but gives him unsupervised release with an order to appear, but of course he doesn't.
Ice is not going to take these conspiracy felons.
They forced him to let them go and then blamed him for letting them go?
ping
Most loal police chiefs in Major cities will tell you the Fed Gov will not do their job. ICE even refuses to run the names submitted through their databases.A large merto area is damn if they do or damned if they do not participate in ICE training. One, it takes cops off the street to fight violent crime. Two, even if the cops arest them, ICE will not check them and often refuses to do anything. Add the sactuary cities. Next, even illegals in prison who are reported to ICE are often never checked in ICE’s database.
ICE is a damn joke IMHO.
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