The Department of Homeland Security has revoked the special immigration enforcement contract it had under Federal Law 287g with Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona.

An October 6 press release from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office reported that “the decision to curtail the Sheriff’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent status emanates from as high as the White House,” which is no surprise given President Obama’s support of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The move by Homeland Security ostensibly stems from complaints that sheriff’s deputies have engaged in racial profiling. But a 2008 audit of the law-enforcement operations supposedly fraught with racial bias found no violations.



So IF you do your job correctly they take your power away for the rights of illegal immigrates????

This is just more of what our idiot president is doing to our country.

what it shows is how much trouble we are in . when a criminel group has more influence than people who vote . its time to start buying a lot of bullets for the neer future .when the police are stoped from inforceing the laws we are in big trouble.this is how the liberials work best .

Oh no!!!

That guy is great and I wish more people were like him! I sent him an email last year telling him thank you for all his hard work and doing what is right. He actually responded!!

Great man, we need more like him. Hell, he would be a much better president than that so called moron in the white house.

the bad guys are taking over. we have a dept of homeland insecurity now. it is all a facade . terror oil money is buying everything. who says they should have one drop?

It's nonsense. Obama and the unions want these people to gain citizenship so they can vote for the democrat party and fill the pension coffers of labor unions.

Really an example of TOO little information. I would love to see the actual DOCUMENTED reasons the action was taken.

He heavens, don't ask for that, they are too content in their anxiety over everything Obama. After all we know that no sherriff could ever be guilty of such things. lmao

This is the rest of the article...
Sorry but I'm not sure how to send the link over on this site yet.

“The 2008 audit … cites utterly no wrongdoing on behalf of the Sheriff’s deputies and even goes so far as to praise Arpaio and his office for their professionalism and adherence to all the 287G contract guidelines,” the sheriff’s office release stated. “The results of the 2008 audit identically mirror other audits conducted over the last few years by several different agencies, all of which found no wrong doing in Arpaio’s enforcement of the federal immigration program.”

That Arpaio’s deputies could conduct their operations so faultlessly despite the severity of the illegal immigration problem facing Arizona is a testament to Arpaio’s leadership. The Milwaukee Examiner for October 7 pointed out that Arizona is “home to the second highest kidnappings in the world,” and that Arizona state data for Maricopa County shows “more than 53 percent of violent crimes committed in the county are perpetrated by illegal aliens.”

Arpaio has found some support in Congress from Representatives Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas). In a joint statement, Franks and Smith have urged Homeland Security and the White House to reconsider their action against Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies.

“The key to combating illegal immigration is federal, state and local cooperation,” Smith and Franks said. “This is why we believe it is crucial for the federal government to continue to support individuals like Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the implementation of agreements under section 287g, which provides for the Department of Homeland Security to delegate authority to enforce federal immigration laws to state and local officials.”

Smith affirmed the success of federal cooperation with local agencies: “The fact is, [the] 287g program works. Thousands of illegal immigrants apprehended for other crimes are being identified and deported.”

Franks would like to see local officials like Arpaio get a “thank you” from the federal government, not harassment and vilification. “Maricopa County has seen an increase in crime, drug trafficking and other issues because of the immigration problem,” Franks explained. “It is reprehensible for DHS to bully law enforcement officials who have honorably served this nation and the state of Arizona by enforcing federal and state laws and who are continuing to work to protect the American people.”

And Sheriff Arpaio’s deputies are indeed protecting America, not only from illegal immigrants from Mexico, but also from illegals who are not Mexican and who could be terrorists. As recently as September 23, a Sheriff’s office release pointed out that four illegals from Communist China had been apprehended.

Speaking through an interpreter, the Chinese suspects said they were from the province of Fu Jian and had begun their journey by boarding a plane in Beijing. Cuban currency was found in their possession, indicating the international scope of the problem. “If people are being smuggled into the United States illegally from a communist country like China through Mexico, who knows where else they could be coming from?” Arpaio said.

It is infuriating that the federal government under the Bush administration so eagerly used 9/11 as an excuse to crack down on American citizens, virtually strip-searching them at airports and illegally monitoring their electronic communications without warrants. Now, eight years later, the withdrawal of support from Sheriff Arpaio sadly proves that this same government under the Obama administration is willing to leave our borders open and invite another 9/11 to occur rather than enforce the immigration laws that would protect America.

LOL

What to read some other "versions" of the story?

http://www.arpaio.com/

This one is funny

http://guanabee.com/2009/10/joe-arpaio/





http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=44899

It was time to start buying lots of bullets a long time ago.. if you don't have a stash already, it's going to be hard to build one now..

as for Sheriff Joe, I don't find any part of this surprising.. He's got a history of hardline tactics enforcing the law and God love him for it!

This move out of Washington is a clear signal from the Administration how they feel about enforcing border laws and policing the border.. Janet Nepalitano has a very selective sense of how laws should be enforced. Her view of America's military veterans and classification of them as threats is more than a little offputting..

but I'm just being paranoid. I know..

As much as I agree with everything that you said I see it more related to healthcare and getting the immigration reform. I don't understand the thinking of having some people work very hard to become a legal citizen and others sneak in illegally and wait for the country to hand them citizenship...

The investigations started of this man in 2008. Obama wasn't in office in 2008

http://news.aol.com/article/sheriff-joe-arpaio-facing-limits-on/711589

Lets discuss it as if it wasn't Obama's idea since it wasn't.

It was still his administration that handed this down.. never happened under Bush..

and liberals have been whining about Joe Arpaio and his tough-guy ways for a long time mostly from the tent city prisons and the pink underwear he makes county prisoners wear

a couple of things I kept noticing in all those articles

1. his department has been audited already several times in the last few years and every audit found him in strict compliance with the law

2. the drive for another investigation seems to be coming from a ACORN petiition

If he did things to violate laws in 2008, that means no matter when he gets his deserved punishment, he deserves it. Right?

There had to have been violations unless our legal system is unfair to only guys who fit a certain profile?

I don't care who starts the investigation, if wrong doing is found and you end up getting punished for it that is what happens to all of us, this man is no different.

Yes, the investigation started in 08' and no wrongdoing was founded. BUT, as of recently it was homeland that revoked the special immigration enforcement contract.

I don't think that anybody in here would argue that. If you do wrong then you should get punished...

Obviously something wasn't right if revocation of illegal enforcement was revoked. He was in trouble before now.