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- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
What one Arizona county is doing about illegal immigration
Via the NYT:
PHOENIX, May 9 — To people who say round up more illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County here has an answer: send out the posse.
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.
Already, a small team of deputies roams the human-trafficking routes to enforce a nine-month-old state law that makes smuggling people a felony and effectively authorizes local police forces to enforce immigration law.
Not only do deputies charge the smugglers, but many of their customers have also been jailed. That has drawn criticism from several quarters, even the politician who sponsored the law and has generally supported Sheriff Arpaio’s position.
“That was not our intent,” said the sponsor, State Representative Jonathan Paton, a Republican, who added that he would prefer to detain smuggled immigrants under trespassing laws, a move lawmakers are considering under a package of bills intended to crack down on illegal immigration.
Take a border state wrestling with the effects of a surge of illegal immigrants. Add Sheriff Arpaio and his unorthodox, well-chronicled brand of law enforcement — he forces male and female inmates to wear pink underwear, among other often-questioned tactics. And watch the sparks fly.
“I have compassion for the Mexican people, but if you come here illegally you are going to jail,” said Sheriff Arpaio, an elected Republican, whose county is the fourth most populous in the country and among the fastest growing.
To avoid suggestions that deputies practice racial profiling, the sheriff has ordered them to find probable cause, usually a minor traffic infraction, before pulling over suspect vehicles.
I like this guy 
Hat tip: ST reader Mahwah, who sent me this link last week (that’s why the date on the article is 5-9… I’m catching up on emails tonight. Better late than never!)
Thursday AM Update: More Illegals Nabbed by Sheriff’s Posse. Heh.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- The immigration debate: room for middle ground?
- The Prez speaks on immigration
- The President’s immigration speech tonight
- House panel votes in support of bilingual voting
- Speechless re: the border patrol alerting the Mex. gov’t to the Minutemen’s whereabouts
- I’m sorry but … the Spanish version of the US national anthem sucks
- About those illegal immigrant rally organizers
- Not all Latinos are on the same page on the immigration issue
- SF Mayor once again vows to ignore the law
- Senate immigration bill stalls
- High school baseball coach: “We gots 2 show the U.S. that they aint (expletive) with out us”
- Figures – Howard Dean accuses Republicans of “scapegoating” Hispanics
- Victor Davis Hanson on illegal immigration
- Clearing up the myths on the immigration reform bill
- Hanging our flag upside down, underneath the Mexican flag
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Illegals have no rights only citizens have rights. GW the first fought for representation not for anarchy.
“To avoid suggestions that deputies practice racial profiling, the sheriff has ordered them to find probable cause, usually a minor traffic infraction, before pulling over suspect vehicles.”
Thats really not how you avoid that.
“Illegals have no rights only citizens have rights.”
Neither of these are true.
Andrew is partially right. Illegals have their Miranda rights before being carted off to detention and deportatioin, period.
Wow andrew, what a cogent, hard hitting, and informative post! You taking lessons from he that is not to be named?
How about not shooting from the lip and giving us the benefit of your vast wisdom on the issue insead of a pouty “neither of these is true” before you sulk back off into the ether.
“How about not shooting from the lip and giving us the benefit of your vast wisdom on the issue insead of a pouty “neither of these is true” before you sulk back off into the ether.”
Its just that its not. Read the constitution. It doesn’t say that rights belong to citizens.
Stunning, don’t give up your day job andrew…
- andrew, your ignorance concerning the 14th amendment is astounding. Read it, then get back to us. while you’re reading, pay particular attention to the word “citizen”. Its sort of important.
- Illegal aliens, or any other name you want to give them, anyone who is not a legal citizen of the US has no such “Constitutional rights”.
- What they have is “human rights”, under the Geneva Convention. Thats it.
- If you’d stop for just a moment, remove your lefthanded BDS deluded head from the nether regions for a moment, you’d realize that if everyone, legal or none-legal, could expect Constitutional protections they’rd be no reason for citizenship. None. Is common sense like some sort of missing gene among the moonbats?
- Bang
- The dirty little secret is that what the Leftards want is wide open borders and a mass influx of immigrents from all over the world because so many will be “fleeing” from Socialist paradises like France and places in South America.
- They know that only with that sort of change in demographics, people they hope share their Utopian Marxist ideas, will they be able to achieve a majority, and impose their ideology on our religion based Republic. So it has nothing to do with humanity and “caring”. Thats rhetorical cover for their real agenda. America as its composed, 85% Judao Christian, will never support Euro-Socialism, and they know it.
- Bang
This Sheriff Arpaio just knocks me out. What a great no-nonsense kinda guy. He’s in the mold of that kick-butt military officer who said, “Don’t get stuck on stupid.” (Can’t recall the name) These guys are a breath of fresh air and the type of take-charge in-charge people this country needs more of. I think they’re what’s called “men”.
Marshall – If Bush signed a bill giving “on demand deferments”, the population of the moonbat gaggle would fall by 80% the very next day.
- Bang
“andrew, your ignorance concerning the 14th amendment is astounding. Read it, then get back to us. while you’re reading, pay particular attention to the word “citizen”. Its sort of important.”
privileges and immunities. But thats not what gets you your rights.
andrew. Heres the extent of your “rights” as an illegal alien:
- You have a right to humane treatment.
- You have a right to deportation in liue of imprisonment if found guilty of illegal entry.
- You have a right to consul.
- you have a right to trial, as outlined in the Geneva conventions.
- You have a right to minimal nourishment and medical attention.
- You have a right to family contact, and or visitation.
- Thats it.
- Bang
William Murchison write this piece for the Washington Times. While I disagree with his conclusions about immigration, he had this to say:
To [reduce the problem of illegal immigration], we need to start taking away basic, especially economic, freedoms, such as the right to save and invest and make a profit. We need a judicial system rigged against the productive and imaginative. We need to nationalize basic industries and freeze wages and prices. We need to clamp down on capitalistic success, partly by confiscatory taxes. We need to stir class warfare and jealousy of the affluent. We might be on the way had we elected Howard Dean president two years ago.
Hmm – is this the Democrats’ stealth strategy for dealing with illegal immigration? Turn the USA into a leftist hellhole worse than Mexico so that people cross the border going south?
“You have a right to deportation in liue of imprisonment if found guilty of illegal entry.”
I don’t thikn people that are deported are found guilty. I dont’ think they go to court. I think its an administrative hearing.
“- you have a right to trial, as outlined in the Geneva conventions.”
Here’s an example. Amendment 6 is about “all criminal prosecutions.” Which I take it would need in order to declare someone illegal. It doesn’t limit itself to certain laws.
“- Thats it.”
Read your constitution again. You’ll find that most of it doesn’t mention citizenship, but rather ‘people’ or other things.