My hero - Sheriff Joe - strikes another blow
Arizona County Uses New Law to Look for Illegal Immigrants - New York Times:
"On Wednesday, the posse, a civilian force of 300 volunteers, many of them retired deputies, are to fan out over desert backcountry, watching for smugglers and the people they guide into these parts."
As tenacious as McGruff the crime-fighting dog, Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R-Maricopa Co., AZ), has taken another bite out of crime. His office is actively enforcing a new Arizona state law forbidding the human smuggling trade. Both "coyotes" and those who employ them to enter the US illegally, as well as other illegals encountered in the normal course of law enforcement, are being charged with violating state laws and/or transferred to the custody of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel.
Not mentioned here, but published recently elsewhere, is the fact that Arizona state and local law enforcement officers encounter illegal aliens in the normal course of their work over one-half million times each year - that's about once every minute.
Now, if we can get Congress to fund completing the fence and hiring enough Border Patrol personnel and providing enough bed space to end the "catch and release" policy that freed Beltway Sniper John Malvo to go on his killing spree, we can send back large numbers of illegal border crossers with some confidence they won't be back the next day or the next week.
posted by J. Keen Holland @ 1:59 AM
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I too like Sheriff Joe Arpaio. What a "say what you mean, mean what you say" type sheriff. I caught him being interviewed on the radio today. (5/11/06)
I didn't quite follow him.. You might know more about this then I. Sheriff Joe said if communities along the border all expanded their sheriff department, they could put a huge dent in illegal immigration. Sheriff's have more leeway than the police and even the border patrol when it comes to the law.
I could see tent prisons popping up all along the border. (Pink underwear and all) I think he said "it only cost about .35 cents a meal to feed these illegals. Tents don't cost much. Illegals can stay as long as they want in my prison. Remember, the desert gets up to 110 degrees."
He cracks me up!
I didn't hear the Arpaio interview, but I suspect he means the power of a sheriff to raise a posse to assist him in emergencies as he has done with respect to the illegal immigrant problem which the Gov. Napolitano cited in declaring a state of emergency in the border counties. The posse power varies from state to state as does the scope of the sheriff's authority. In some places they have statewide arrest powers, in some they do little more than process service and that only in their own counties. Generally, sheriffs in the South and West have wider powers than those in the Northeast.
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