Posted on 12/20/2011 11:38:27 AM PST by SandRat
PHOENIX - 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.
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The Fed usurps State law.
I wish we were in the middle of the debates where Perry could bring this to light and Newt and Santorum would pound on it.
The story appears to say the sheriff’s efforts are doomed because Arizona/Maricopa County was getting federal funding. This is why the ability for the Federal Govt. to take money from us, about 50% of the population, must be removed from the authority of evil individuals. This kind of matter really raises my hair. People keep talking government this and government that when it is all about people using government. If you have evil people there will always be evil government unless the people outside of the government make sure to minimize government like the Founders recognized and intended.
Perry has been all over this issue, but no one is listening.
It is frustrating.
50 more of Sheriff Joe's guys can be back on the street's then!!!
Joe ought to arrest the agents for breaking Arizona law and put them in pink shorts picking up litter on the border.
“Don’t get all uppity with states rights.”
No, the County Sheriff is the chief law enforcement of his county. From what I understand the Constitution says on the matter, Joe Arpaio has more law enforcement power in his county than do any federal officers. So, here’s hoping Sheriff Joe arrests all fifty of these guys and puts them in his lockup in the general population along with the illegals. Of all the real LEOs on the scene today, Sheriff Joe is the only one with the balls to do it. Maybe Sheriff Paul Babeau from neighboring Pinal County can come and assist.
The sheriff is a higher authority in his own state than the federal government, and their ouster of him for political reasons is all kinds of illegal. They must have physically overpowered or threatened him. He’s a top cop in Arizona, and they have no jurisdiction over him. Too bad he and his deputies didn’t fend them off, for it would be perfectly legal for them to do so.
And the sheriffs in our country are our last hope of taking it back again. Once the feds remove the strong, conservative sheriffs, all is lost. There goes the last “controlling legal authority.”
The authority of sheriffs is clear. I don’t trust the courts to uphold it though.
I like the way you think.
Perhaps the Sheriff can contact the Sheriff’s in Texas and have them get Homeland Security database access, then download a copy to Sheriff Arpaio. Why do other states allow the federal government to usurp their authority? Wake up state governors lets get some guts already!!
I believe that the feds are trying to say that Arpaio was violating the “constitutional rights” of the illegals by not offering each one of them the opportunity to register to vote under the Motor Voter Fraud Act.
That seems about right for this crew.
Don’t take your eyes off the prize boyz...This is a diversionary tactic to take the heat off F&F. Sheriff Joe can take care of himself. No one can usurp his authority in that County but the residents of Maricopa.
since this is “in custody” then the sherriff’s office has the right to have a deputy there during the interview to prevent any illegal action.
since when was a criminal database “secret” from locals?
could this be more fast and furious issues that the DOJ wants to cover up? iow: have the criminals who know too much removed from jail and ...
Lots of Internet comments many saying that it's a hoax.
If so then of course this means that some dim-witted "it all counts toward 30" GS-12 in Washington, D.C. is the supreme master over all local matters.
So why even have local government? Let's just adopt the North Korean model. Obama Barack Il The Glorious Master and Father of All in This His Paradise.
” - - - engaged in a pattern and practice of civil rights and constitutional violations and discriminated against Latino inmates in its jails.”
Duh, a Latino illegal alien belongs in Arpaio’s jail until he can be quickly transported to the nearest border with a Latino Country.
BTW, is it legal for the Jack-boot heel of the Feds to crush local jails?
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