The Justice Department filed a massive discrimination suit against Arizona sheriff Joe Araio on Thursday. Here is what the Feds say Arpaio did wrong according to the Huffington Post: Maricopa County Employees Call Latinos Derogatory Names Jail employees frequently refer to Latinos as “wetbacks,” “Mexican bitches,” and “stupid Mexicans,” according to the lawsuit. An...
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Joe Arpaio took time out from persecuting immigrants to declare Obama one. Sheriff Joe held a press conference today to declare Obama’s birth certificate a forgery. Of course he did not test Obama’s actual birth certificate, only an online version. Arpaio claims his cracked team found that the Adobe document it found on-line was...
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The latest indication that Rick Perry’s re-enactment of the Hindenberg disaster is nearing its fiery conclusion came this week when he named America’s most racist sheriff head of his Arizona presidential campaign. Joe Arpaio is supposed to rescue the Texas zeppelin. Perry, who once accused Mitt Romney of not having a heart on immigration,...
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On Friday a Federal judge ordered Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office to stop detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants. The Associated Press reported that: The ruling…sets the stage for a possible trial in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in the patrols in Arizona’s Maricopa County, and would further...
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Last week the Department of Justice issued a stinging report on massive civil rights violations by Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County Sheriffs Office (MCSO). Within hours, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would no longer use MCSO officers as immigration deputies under the 287(g) program. When a police department enters into a 287(g)...
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Today’s New York Times lays out The Case Against Sheriff Arpaio in an editorial: After a three-year investigation, the Justice Department has accused Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., and longtime darling of the anti-immigrant crowd, of “unconstitutional policing” and creating a “pervasive culture of bias” against Latinos. So what did Gov....
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Janet Napolitano just announced that because of a finding by the Justice Department that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s department has engaged in systematic civil rights abuses, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is being suspended from participation in ICE’s 287(g) program. Suspension means that Arpaio’s will no longer be authorized to enforce immigration laws.
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The Justice Department released the findings from its three year investigation of violations of the rights of Latinos in Arizona by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Here are some excerpts from the Arizona Republic: The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday morning accused the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office of racial profiling in traffic stops and immigration...
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The New York Times reports that Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio has just endorsed Rick Perry for President: Gov. Rick Perry of Texas on Tuesday said he would back a federal law “to detain and to deport every illegal alien that we apprehend.” Mr. Perry, in his most expansive comments about illegal immigration since last...
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Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are already courting Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but Michele Bachmann sees his endorsement as a key to keeping her presidential campaign alive. The Associated Press reports that Bachmann has called Arpaio “several times” looking for support. Her run from the right at front runner Rick Perry would pick up momentum...
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