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Title: Justice Dept. Investigates Arizona Sheriff for Enforcing Immigration Law
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Published: Mar 12, 2009
Author: Penny Starr
Post Date: 2009-03-12 14:12:14 by Jethro Tull
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(CNSNews.com) - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona following requests by congressional Democrats and allegations by liberal activists that the department has violated the civil rights of illegal aliens. Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), and Robert Scott (D-Va.) requested the investigation, and activists groups such as National Day Laborer Organizer Network and ACORN launched petition drives and rallies in support of the probe. The investigation focuses on Sheriff Joe Arpaio and dozens of officers under his command who were trained through the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security (ACCESS), which partners federal and local law enforcement to enforce immigration laws. (The Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division is known popularly as ICE.) In a letter dated March 10, 2009, Loretta Smith, acting assistant attorney general at the DOJ, detailed what her department would be investigating: "This is to inform you that the United States Department of Justice is commencing an investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (''MCSO'') pursuant to the pattern or practice provisions of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994,42 U.S.C. §14141 ("Section 14141") and the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968,42 U.S.C. § 3789d ("Safe Streets Act"), and pursuant to the prohibitions against national origin discrimination in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,42 U.S.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-7 ("Title Yr') and the Safe Streets Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3789d(c)." The letter continues: "The investigation will focus on alleged patterns or practices of discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures conducted by the MCSO, and on allegations of national origin discrimination, including failure to provide meaningful access to MCSO services for limited English proficient (LEP) individuals." "In conducting the investigation, we will seek to determine whether there are violations of the above laws by the MCSO," the letter says. Sheriff Arpaio's efforts to enforce immigration laws have been the focus of previous criticism, but Arpaio has defended his department and the results his ICE-trained officers have netted. Concerning the DOJ’s investigation, Arpaio told CNSNews.com: “I will not back down. What I am doing is upholding the laws of the state of Arizona, and I will not be persuaded to turn my back on my oath of office as sheriff of this county.” In an August 2008 press release, Arpaio's office detailed those results. "While the Sheriff’s illegal immigration and human smuggling operations conducted on the streets and roadways here have netted nearly 2,300 arrests, another very successful effort to locate illegal aliens has been quietly happening inside Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails," the release said. It continues: "Despite the growing criticism of the Sheriff’s illegal immigration fight by some valley politicians and activists, Sheriff Arpaio says 60 detention officers trained by ICE officials have conducted over 106,000 interviews and investigations of inmates booked into jail since April of 2007. "In those 18 months, 16,000 inmates were determined to be illegal aliens. Either they have already been deported or will be deported after being tried and/or serving their sentences for crimes committed in the valley. The work being done be Arpaio’s detention staff is a likely contributor to the recent reduction in crime in the valley,” the press release added. "That number of 16,000 represents a full one-third (1/3) of all inmates in the United States who have had holds placed on them after being identified by jail or prison officials as illegal aliens." The press release goes on to say that 20 percent of inmates in the Maricopa County Jail are illegal aliens and that of those, 2,000 illegal aliens - 70 percent - were arrested for felony crimes. Those felony crimes committed included the following: forgery, 12 percent; kidnapping, 10 percent; aggravated assault, 7 percent; driving under the influence, 7 percent; drug charges, 27 percent; robbery, 3 percent; murder, 3 percent; and theft, 4 percent. The Democratic Congress members have also asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to launch an investigation into the training provided by ICE.
Poster Comment: Well done Sheriff Joe. Tell Obama's dyke appointee Napolitano that illegals have ruined AZ and it's time to cage them followed closely with deportation.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
It's a LEPer colony.
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Really? I haven't heard that...one of Hitlery's lezzie sisters??
_________________________________________________________________________ Arpaio is an embarrassment to AZ citizens and the entire AZ law enforcement community. My younger brother (commander/asst. police chief at a town here in AZ) says they are ashamed to admit he is part of law enforcement. Even his own deputies say he is a jerk and constantly embarasses them. There are 40,000 felony warrants outstanding in Maricopa County because lazy-ass Joe won't do his job. 2,700 lawsuits have been filed against Arpaio Joe even staged a phony murder plot against himself! Truth about goofball Arpaio from the conservative Goldwater Institute AZ (Full report at the link) MCSO falls seriously short of fulfilling its mission in all three areas. Although MCSO is adept at self-promotion and is an unquestionably “tough” law-enforcement agency, under its watch violent crime rates recently have soared, both in absolute terms and relative to other jurisdictions. It has diverted resources away from basic law-enforcement functions to highly publicized immigration sweeps, which are ineffective in policing illegal immigration and in reducing crime generally, and to extensive trips by MCSO officials to Honduras for purposes that are nebulous at best. Profligate spending on those diversions helped produce a financial crisis in late 2007 that forced MCSO to curtail or reduce important law-enforcement functions. In terms of support services, MCSO has allowed a huge backlog of outstanding warrants to accumulate, and has seriously disadvantaged local police departments by closing satellite booking facilities. MCSO’s detention facilities are subject to costly lawsuits for excessive use of force and inadequate medical services. Compounding the substantive problems are chronically poor record-keeping and reporting of statistics, coupled with resistance to public disclosure. www.goldwaterinstitute.or...sion%20Unaccomplished.pdf Joe Arpaio, MCSO Can't Back Up Bogus Claim that Fox Reality Show Collared 400 Fugitives blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com...o_mcso_cant_back_up_b.php Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Sheriff claims he has a .50 caliber machine gun for use in shooting down terrorist aircraft or explosive laden tractor-trailer rigs. He also claims the machine gun is the only one owned by a U.S. law enforcement agency and that he has authorization from the federal government to shoot down commercial airliners if he believes they have been hijacked. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: The Norberg wrongful death lawsuit was settled out of court for $8.25 million. Sheriff Sheriff Joe Arpaio has repeatedly claimed that this cost the taxpayers nothing since it was paid by an insurance company. Truth: At the time of the settlement the county had a $1 million "deductible" on its coverage. The taxpayers had to pay the first $1,000,000 on this case and now the deductible has been raised to $5 million. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He arrested Elvis Presley. Truth: Actually, Sheriff Joe Arpaio sometimes claims to have arrested Elvis and other times he claims to have stopped him for a traffic violation. No police records nor Presley family records have ever surfaced to show any contact between Elvis and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He was a Korean War veteran. Truth: He was in the Army during the Korean War but he never set foot there. His overseas assignment was in France. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He broke the famous "French Connection." Truth: The people really involved in this case never heard of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He was involved in "numerous gun battels" and "weekly shootout" as a DEA agent. Truth: Arpaio has never fired his weapon in the line of duty. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Recidivism in the jails was reduced during his time as sheriff. Truth: Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent $10,000 in taxpayer money to have Arizona State University study recidivism in the jail system. The result showed that there was no change in the rate at which inmates returned to jail. Sheriff Joe Arpaio immediately declared that ASU was wrong. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: On the two occasions where he spent a night in the tent city jail he claimed that there were no special security arrangements to protect him. Truth: The Sheriff's Office Tactical Operations Unit (SWAT TEAM) was on-duty, on overtime, all night, guarding him from a nearby building. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He has saved the taxpayers millions of dollars. Truth: He has cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees, lawsuits, attorneys fees, settlements, judgments, photographs of himself, videos of himself, and maintaining his personal public relations staff. Imagine you are the mother of a mentally handicapped thirty-three-year-old-man. Your son functions on the level of a twelve-year-old boy. His disability often causes him to act erratically, but you still hope that one day, he can lead a normal life. One night in August, 2001, he is arrested on a misdemeanor loitering charge when he begins acting strangely in a convenience store. When officers arrive to arrest him, he is clinging to the store's coffee machine and won't let go. Four officers forcibly remove him from the store, handcuff him, and throw him to the ground to be hogtied. The force seems excessive, since your son is disabled and only weighs about a hundred and thirty pounds. A few minutes later, his limbs bound behind his tiny frame, officers load him into the squad car to take him away. Before they pull away, your son asks you, like a little kid: "Mom, will you ride in the car with me?" "I can't," you tell him, "the police won't let me." You figure that the police will probably hold your son overnight, and you head home to get some rest. Two hours later, your son is dead. When Charles Agster arrives at Madison Street Jail, he is confused, as is typical of his condition. He tries to wriggle underneath a bench, and although he is still hogtied, three or more officers and a sheriff's deputy jump on him, punch him, and knee him in the side. One officer grips his face, pressing upward toward his chin. Although he is now unresponsive, the officers drag him, face down, into the Intake area and strap him into a restraint chair. They place a spit-hood over his head, encasing him in darkness. Minutes later, he stops breathing. The original autopsy lists "positional asphyxia due to restraint" as his cause of death. Videotape of the incident shows guards trying to resuscitate Agster, but he's already brain dead. A 2002 Amnesty International report expresses concern "that the degree of force used against Agster was grossly disproportionate to any threat posed by him." Forty-year-old Brian Crenshaw was serving a short sentence for shoplifting. Although Crenshaw had been in and out of jail for years and had a drug problem, he had never been accused of a violent crime. He was also legally blind. After an altercation with officers, Crenshaw reported injuries to jail medical personnel. His eye and nose were sutured, and his vitals were taken. Crenshaw stated that he was pushed to the wall, punched and kicked by officers. Apparently, the struggle ensued when Crenshaw refused to show his ID in a lunch line. Due to the altercation, Crenshaw was placed in lockdown. For the next six days, nobody entered or left his cell. On March 14, Crenshaw was found unconscious next to his bunk. He had a broken neck, several broken toes, and extensive internal injuries. He was comatose, his intestines had ruptured, and his vertebrae needed to be straightened with a halo. Doctors told Crenshaw's mother that his internal injuries were so severe they had to surgically open his stomach to relieve swelling. The sheriff's office asserts that Crenshaw's struggle with guards did not cause the injuries that led to his death. Despite the severity of Crenshaw's injuries, the sheriff's office maintains that these injuries were incurred when he fell from his bunk. On a CBS 5 program after the incident, interviewer Chris Hayes asks Arpaio, "Is it possible your guards beat Brian Crenshaw to death? "Is it possible?" Arpaio sneers. After an uncomfortable pause, he continues, "No, they did not, they did not, and if that's what your critics, or that you're insinuating we went into that cell block and beat him up and threw him to the floor is ridiculous. We did a thorough investigation on that. The man fell off a bunk." Crenshaw's bunk was 4'2" high, about a foot shorter than a child's bunk bed , or as Chris Hayes pointed out in his investigation, a little taller than a desk. More at the link www.arpaio.com/blood-on-hands/3.php Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s decided to put journalists on notice that “freedom of speech” has its limits in his county. He ordered his tax paid attorney to send a letter to the West Valley View newspaper threatening legal consequences over a head line that the sheriff disliked. Other items
His sins are forgiven as long as he keeps those wetbacks behind barbed wire and dressed in pink panties.
So far he has been responsible for costing AZ taxpayers appx $49,000,000 because of all the lawsuits caused by the stupid things he has done. And don't buy the numbers he uses in his claims about arresting illegals. Research done by the AZ Republic and a few other newspapers here have determined that most of them are just publicity/propaganda BS. Because of something I said to him once the look he gave me told me he wished he could put me in tent city. Two coworkers and I just laughed at him about it and walked away. I must admit, I enjoyed embarassing him in front of about 30 people.
I'm sure he's a grade A prick regarding all we hold dear, but AZ, among other
border states, is under active invasion. That it has become the kidnapping
capital of the USA is a sad tribute to these rats. I understand more than 20%
of the prison population are illegals? If true, he has his hands full. That
said, from the article I posted, he has all the right enemies including the
twat Obama hired to replace Chertoff. I'd give Joe all the tools he needs to
kick the
snot out of the illegals and their supporters. Nothing less than the
sovereignty of the greater part of our Southwest is at stake.
Hang the "justice" dept idiots and the horse they rode in on. Stupid shyster bastards.
She's a bushmaster.
Dead on. It's time for people to stand up, especially sheriffs. Most cower to the bark from DeeCee.
Yes, illegals and crime by illegals is out of control here. What's funny and kinda sad about Arpaio is he claims as the county Sheriff that he is in charge of/responsible for all other law enforcement agencies in the county including the Phx police dept. As a result, any time one of the other agencies (Phx, Mesa, Scottsdale etc) police departments bust a holding house or anything to do with illegals he adds the numbers to those of his department and tries to claim responsibility. That is why the all the local police departments are constantly at war with him. One of the things that really pisses alot of people off here is how he used over $600,000 in taxpayer money to make a private purchase of property and then when the State Atty's General office began to investigate Arpaio used a friend who was a judge here to have the records sealed and then destroyed before they could be examined.
Put a $1000 bounty on all politicians and government shysters, dead or alive, and watch how this country blooms. We need a separate cemetery for the scum, they do not deserve to be among decent folk.
Isn't Phoenix a "sanctuary city"? That in and of itself is illegal. If it is, I'd be happy somebody stepped in and tried to fight the invasion. I honestly have no idea if his police power extends this far, but sheriffs do have expansive authority (tho rarely used).
Heads on a pike, left at the entrence to city hall, and bump that bounty up to 2k per.
You folks love to cite enumerated powers.. Usually...
Pfffttttt.
You folks belong behind the wire.
War is the snitch type that will run and tell on us. Like the third grade snitch that tattled to the teacher every day, remember????
"You folks"?
Oh how wonderful you would be 'twas that your usual comment to me 'twould remind of the rates Of how fattys like you deflates...
Tucker Carlson, bow-tie wearers to be dispatched early on.
When you and me are taken out to be shot, war will be dancing with glee on the sidelines, then they will shoot him. No one likes a snitch. No one.
They'll pat him on the head, then take back their government cheese before pointing him toward the river Styx.
Do you ever make sense or do you just string words together and hope that they do?
ROFLMAO...oh what a martyr you are...
Martyr???? You use words that do not fit the situation, seems to be a habit.
Nope. "Martry" was the correct word. You just don't understand irony.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29594464_ITM On June 5, nine-year-old Jordin Paulder, a towheaded boy with "chubby cheeks," as the newspapers described him, was playing in the parking lot of the Chastain Apartments in Sandy Springs, Georgia, part of metro Atlanta. Jordin saw a car go by and called out to the occupants. The car had a bum tire, the lad shouted. The car stopped, and Santos Benigno Cabrera Borjas emerged, wielding a hatchet. He twice smashed Jordin in the face between the nose and forehead. The second blow buried the hatchet, which paramedics feared removing en route to the hospital. Jordin died. When police cornered Borjas as paramedics worked on Jordin, the ax-murderer tossed a rimmed tire at an officer, breaking his arm. Borjas rushed the cop, who shot him dead. In New York on November 1, actress Adrienne Shelly died in her apartment in New York City. Shelly was found hanged by a bedsheet on a shower curtain rod, an apparent suicide. But the 40-year-old wife and mother didn't hang herself. Diego Pillco, who was renovating an apartment in Shelly's building, did the deed. He punched the woman and knocked her out when she complained about the noise. Fearing she was dead, he staged the elaborate ruse. Borjas and Pillco have something in common. They are illegal aliens, from Honduras and Ecuador, just two of the hundreds of thousands brutalizing Americans in a crime wave of unfathomable proportions. They are robbing Americans. They are raping Americans. They are murdering Americans. The crime data show that illegal aliens have unleashed a reign of terror that would have been considered an act of war 75 years ago. Consider these alarming facts: in 2003, according to the Government Accountability Office, illegal aliens composed 27 percent of the federal prison population. The majority of these, 63 percent, were Mexicans. Some 267,000 illegal aliens were jailed in federal, state, and local facilities that year. And, immigration writer Ed Rubenstein observed, while illegal aliens were an estimated 7.2 percent of the population in 2003, 12.9 percent of them were in jail or prison. In Los Angeles in 2004, 95 percent of the outstanding warrants for murder named illegal aliens. Yet the federal government, entrusted with the responsibility to defend our country from invasion, does next to nothing. The Bush administration gibbles and gabbles about secure borders while illegal aliens merrily inflict their mayhem. Granted, in June, the federal government conducted "Operation Return to Sender," a nationwide sweep that netted 2,100 illegals (.018 percent of them, assuming 12 million total), including 367 gang bangers nationwide and three- dozen child molesters roaming free in Orange County, California. And in White Plains, New York, in December, the feds arrested six illegal-alien sex offenders, some of whom were registered, on "routine visits" to the probation office. Illegal aliens are registered and make "routine visits" to the probation office? Clearly, the rest have nothing to fear. The reason? A lethal combination of federal inertia, partly due to the president's adamant refusal to deal with the problem, and state, local, and municipal "sanctuary policies" aimed at placating the Hispanic communities. The Data Paulder and Shelly are among the thousands of Americans who would be alive if the authorities stopped illegal immigration. Government officials frankly confess their lassitude. Federal bureaucrats can't even keep track of their own immigrant files, and lost some 110,000 of them, the Associated Press reported in November. Of course, 30,000 citizenship applications that lacked documentation sailed through the system anyway. Bad as that is, the crime data on illegal aliens reveal what the federal government's incompetence means. In April 2005, the GAO studied the 55,322 illegal aliens in federal prisons during 2003. The frightening facts? Those 55,322 illegal aliens were arrested 459,614 times, or eight times each. They committed some 700,000 crimes, 13 each. Thirty-six percent of them were arrested at least five times. Moreover, as Rubenstein notes, the number of illegal aliens locked in federal, state and local jails grew from 9,000 illegal aliens in 1980 to 267,000 in 2003. Even worse, Deborah Schurman Kauflin, who heads the Violent Crimes Institute, which studied illegal aliens and crime, discovered that a disproportionate share of illegal aliens are dangerous sex fiends. At her website, Kauflin presents her analysis of 1,500 illegal-alien cases covering nearly eight years. Most of the criminals were gathered in states with the highest number of illegals: California, Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. She uncovered a tsunami of drunk driving, robbery, child molestation, rape, and murder, including serial murders and brutal gang rapes. Frighteningly, she reported, sex offenders represent 2 percent of illegal aliens. Assuming a population of 12 million illegals, some 240,000 illegal- alien sex criminals are now in the United States. That, in turn, "translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sex offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day." This might be one reason Operation Return to Sender targeted illegal-alien sex criminals, and why the feds have arrested 100 sex fiends in White Plains since 2003. At any rate, Kauflin's 1,500 offenders victimized 5,999 people, about four victims each. Of those studied, 525, or 35 percent, were child molestations, 358, or 24 percent, were rapes, and 617, or 41 percent, were sexual homicides and serial murders. Illegal aliens, she calculated, victimized nearly 1 million people over the 88 months of crime data she studied. The data are even more detailed, but you get the picture. In another article, Kauflin recounts the grisly, appalling crimes illegal aliens committed. An illegal immigrant named Maximiliano Esparza "raped and sodomized two nuns and used their rosary beads to control them during the attack. The Sisters were beaten, raped, sodomized, and finally, Esparza used her own rosary beads to strangle Sister Helen Lynn Chaska to death." Esparza, who pickled his liver at a strip joint before the sacrilegious attack, was a career criminal deported once before. The Border Patrol nabbed him again, but released him. Meanwhile, Kauflin observed, television drama treats us to illegal aliens attacked by Americans. These illegal-alien sex criminals are mostly Mexican. As those concerned about what immigrants mean for American culture have observed, foreigners bring their culture and customs with them. One of those beliefs, Kauflin reports, is the Mexican "concept of rapto," meaning the abduction of a woman or girl to rape her. In 2002, the Washington Post published a long piece backing Kauflin's opinion that rapto is "socially acceptable" in Mexico. The piece also backed her bold charge of misogyny among Mexican men. One Oaxacan legislator called rapto "romantic," which is no surprise in a country where stealing cattle, the Post reported, is more serious than rape. "Many [Mexican] states," the paper revealed, "require that if a 12-year-old girl wants to accuse an adult man of statutory rape, she must first prove she is 'chaste and pure.'" Nineteen states simply drop statutory rape charges "if the rapist agrees to marry his victim." Outraged women's and human rights groups were trying to change Mexican law when the Post's article appeared, but whatever their success in Mexico, rapto has arrived in America. Two of the sex fiends in White Plains raped 14-year-old girls, and immigrant attacks on women and girls, including sadistic gang rapes, are rising. One example occurred on December 19, 2002 in New York, when Victor Cruz, Armando Juvenal, Jose Hernandez, and Carlos Rodriguez, all illegal aliens, joined as many as five other men in raping a 42-year-old woman for three hours near Shea Stadium. Three of the four illegals were violent criminals but were not deported. In a letter to the court, the victim wrote that the rapists attacked her like "a pack of wild wolves." Similar examples of beastly gang rapes, some involving more than a dozen men, are legion. While many illegal-alien criminals are run-of-the-mill murderers and rapists, if such a creature exists, some of them are serial rapists and killers. The annals of illegal-alien crime, as THE NEW AMERICAN reported in its August 7, 2006 issue, include the recently executed "Railroad Killer," Angel Maturino Resendiz. Between 1986 and 1999, he butchered at least 15 people across six states, eight in Texas and others in Kentucky and Georgia. He murdered a pastor and his wife with a sledgehammer in 1999, pulverizing the woman's face before he raped her. Sanctuary The bloody thread running through Kauflin's reports and other data is that many illegal aliens are caught for minor crimes and released ... but not deported. As the Los Angeles Times reported about Operation Return to Sender, "most of those arrested in the nationwide sweep ... served time in county jails.... But instead of being deported, they were released." If deported, illegals often return to the United States. "Nearly 63% [of the criminals Kauflin studied] had been deported on another offense prior to the sex crime. There was an average of 3 years of committing crimes such as DUI, assaults, or drug related offenses prior to being apprehended for a sexual offense," meaning their crimes escalated each time they were caught. The crimes Kauflin documents are so horrendous one wonders how the government erred and failed to deport the criminal illegals. Most Americans would be shocked, or perhaps they wouldn't, to learn that federal, state, and local governments, far from making mistakes, instead refuse to deport illegal aliens. Some federal immigration officials candidly admit they are not interested in "administrative" cases, meaning those merely involving illegal immigration. The feds are interested in "other crimes." But at the state level, where such "other crimes" are committed, a different worm is eating the apple of American sovereignty. Heather McDonald, writing in City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute, explains it in one word: sanctuary. Many cities such as Los Angeles and New York refuse to notify federal authorities when local police apprehend criminals they know are illegal aliens. And generally, it appears, it isn't police who suggest and approve the policies. It's politicians. In Los Angeles, McDonald wrote, police can't jail dangerous gang members, despite their violent criminal records and felonious re-entry into the country, because they would violate the police department's rule against enforcing immigration laws. That rule "mirrors bans in immigrant-saturated cities ... from New York and Chicago to San Diego, Austin, and Houston. These 'sanctuary policies' generally prohibit city employees, including the cops, from reporting immigration violations to federal authorities." The cops, McDonald reported, are at wits' end: "We can't even talk about it," a "frustrated LAPD captain" told McDonald. "People are afraid of a backlash from Hispanics." Sighed another, "I would get a firestorm of criticism if I talked about [enforcing the immigration law against illegals]." The consequences of this dereliction of duty are obvious, as Kauflin's report shows, but McDonald added even more examples of what not deporting illegal aliens means for law-abiding Americans. In 2004, "in Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens." In 1995, a study showed that a gang in southern California boasted 20,000 members, 60 percent of whom were illegal aliens. Unsurprisingly, public officials defend these sanctuary policies because they believe (or say they do) that illegal-alien victims who do not fear deportation will help police, and for the insane reason that "they encourage illegals to take advantage of city services like health care and education (to whose maintenance few illegals have contributed a single tax dollar, of course)." Sanctuary may encourage more illegal aliens to jump on the welfare dole, but it hasn't curbed the crime wave. As McDonald wrote, "no one has ever suggested not enforcing drug laws, say, for fear of intimidating drug-using crime victims." In truth, McDonald reported, sheer numbers energize sanctuary policies. Politicians are afraid of the "backlash" from immigrant groups and their vociferous supporters. Chillingly, a top presidential contender for 2008, Rudolf Giuliani, created a sanctuary policy and sued the federal government "all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court" over a federal law, passed in 1996, requiring cities to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. In a sequence of events so eerie it sounds fictive, six days before terrorist illegal immigrants flattened the twin towers on 9/11 and set the Pentagon ablaze, Giuliani's "handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government." Pandering to illegal immigrants and their supporters, Giuliani said the federal law was a tool to "terrorize people." Despite 9/11 and losing in court, McDonald wrote, "New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban" until the flagitious gang rape at Shea Stadium. Though three of the illegal immigrants in that case had lengthy rap sheets for violent crimes, the city "never notified the INS." What Will Americans Do? This compendium of mayhem and murder by illegal aliens does not count the carnage on the nation's highways inflicted by drunk-driving illegal aliens. These stories are too numerous to recount here, but a quick Google search will divulge countless deaths and maimings by illegal aliens hurtling down the highways on a tankful of gas and snootful of booze. As with their other categories of crime, cases abound where illegal aliens have been caught driving drunk, then released to kill. A particularly poignant example hit the newspapers the day after Thanksgiving. For the families of Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia, Maryland, and Jennifer Bower, 24, of Montgomery Village, it was truly Black Friday. Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, 25, an illegal Mexican, killed the pair on Thanksgiving night, prosecutors allege, when he slammed his Nissan Sentra into Bower's Toyota Corolla at a red light. Mathews and Bower were on their second date. Morales-Soriano was polluted, police allege, with four times the legal limit of alcohol. Before that fatal day, the Baltimore Sun disclosed, police collared him three times, the most significant being a wreck in February. Police allege he reeked of alcohol. Although he refused a Breathalyzer test, his license was not suspended, as the law requires. The charges were dropped. In July, the paper reported, police nailed him for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, speeding and negligent driving. The court exonerated him. In September, before the wreck that killed Mathews and Bower, he was convicted of driving on unsafe tires. For the third time, he was not deported. Brian Mathews, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps who survived duty in Iraq, never knew what hit him. Neither did Jordin Paulder or Adrienne Shelly, nor many others who died at the hands of illegal aliens. Their demises are tragic not just for what their families and communities lost, but for what they reveal about American officialdom, from the anti-American elites in Washington to the vacillating, tremulous elites in cities and counties. They will not act. They fear an "immigrant backlash?' Until they fear an American backlash, a backlash from the Paulders and Shellys and other victims, illegal aliens will continue to rob, rape, and kill.
ruined AZ
#2. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
dyke appointee Napolitano
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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What's funny and kinda sad about Arpaio is he claims as the county Sheriff that he is in charge of/responsible for all other law enforcement agencies in the county including the Phx police dept.
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Pfffttttt.
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war
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Tucker Carlson, bow-tie wearers to be dispatched early on.
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When you and me are taken out to be shot, war will be dancing with glee on the sidelines, then they will shoot him.
#25. To: war (#24)
ROFLMAO...oh what a martyr you are...
#26. To: Cynicom (#25)
#27. To: All (#0)
Crime wave: as an illegal-alien crime wave overtakes America, government officials do nothing because they either support open borders or fear to anger the Hispanic community.
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