Posted on 12/19/2011 5:44:42 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Homeland Security Department will use 50 immigration agents to screen jail inmates in Arizona's most populous county after it revoked the sheriff's authority to access its systems, the agency said Monday in a letter to U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl.
The letter from Homeland Security assistant secretary Nelson Peacock and obtained by The Associated Press said that the 50 dedicated agents will "screen, identify, apprehend and remove criminal aliens" found in Maricopa County jails.
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No one working for the Federal Government can be compelled to obey illegal orders.
If I were the Governor of Arizona I would IMMEDIATELY issue an executive order mandating that all state employees discontinue investigating, enforcing, or otherwise implementing ANY federal laws. I would remove all state police from the freeways and any federal highway. No more kidnapping, bank robbery, etc., investigations at all. I would also turn existing investigative material for federal crimes over to the local federal office of the FBI. I would then tell the federal homeland security office to flat GO TO HELL. Do not call us with any of your problems.
How do you withhold information the local sheriff needs, to enforce the laws these pricks won’t enforce?
Withholding that information might be a crime in and of itself.
Anyone not 100% in securing borders and 100% deporting all Illegals is just helping Obama and anyone supporting Illegal Alien Amnesty
So important that the next President be 100% on security and deportation...and not continue Obama (and Bush) policy of attacking Sherrif Joe and other pro-American law enforcement
Illegal Alien Amnesty is Anti-American Bigotry. Barack Husein Obama is an Anti-American Bigot
ARREST the agents Sheriff Joe ~ Arrest their sorry a$$e$ and throw them in jail ~
Under what authority do they have to ether the sovereign state and just start removing prisoners?
Hummmm
Ah
Hummmm
I don’t know
None that I can think of
While I am hardly convinced that many (any) "removals" will take place:
I have to congratulate Zero for creating fifty "new" jobs.
An illegal commits murder in Maricopa County and the agents remove him or her from the county jail?
In a small rural county here in Missouri 4 men got off a bus in the county seat . They ask for directions to the local Bank of America so they could exchange pesos for dollars according to the sheriff of that county. The county seat (population 632) only has two banks, one of them is a branch facility. Neither is associated with B of A.
The sheriff suspicioned that they might be illegal aliens so he ask for IDs. They could not produce any form of of identification so the sheriff called the area ICE office.
ICE told the sheriff that they had no interest in the men and if they had not committed any crimes locally, he should release them.
The sheriff took the men to the county line, released them, pointed west and said "Bank of America that way".
The sheriff disclosed all these events in a TV interview. It was evident that the sheriff was not happy about the lack of cooperation from "federal agents".
It appears Sheriff Joe is not alone when it comes to ICE not working with the local sheriff.
Charter a plane and deport them to DC, or Chi Town!!
Sounds like they will be profiling.
This is Obama attacking Sherriff Joe for investigating his Bona Fides. Sherriff Joe must have something.
This is a warning a threat to the sherriff.
This is Obama using his office to intimidate a State and County Official.
If John McCain was half a man he would be all over this Bullsh*t. As Senator from Arizona he should stand up for the men who perform their duty in his state, John McCain sucks if he isn’t on this like stink on a skunk.
Ya’ll re-elected him.
Deal with it.
All that wasted money to pay 50 people just so the DHS can keep Arpaio from using the computer system. I agree with whoever said the Governor should step in and put a stop to it. Jan Brewer needs to step up. Its ridiculous.
Really, the state needs to take steps to organize a militia to step in during the absence of a competent Federal government. Won’t happen, but it needs to. We are on our own out here.
McCain has benefited from crossover voting during primaries. The conservative voice is being crushed at both the state and national level. In Arizona, we have open primaries so anyone can request a ballot. McCain is the logical choice for any lefty.
I agree. Sounds good to me.
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