Joe Arpaio Vs. Justice Department: Arizona Sheriff Is Latest Target Of Civil Rights Lawsuit
Joe Arpaio, the controversial Arizona sheriff, will soon be the target of a Justice Department lawsuit, which claims that the sheriff and his office have violated the civil rights of citizens, including racial profiling Latinos.
The lawsuit comes after a months-long review into the civil rights allegations against Arpaio’s office. The department has also refused to accept a court-appointed monitor to assist with the department’s training of officers on how to make constitutional traffic stops, to collect data on people arrested in traffic stops, and also to reach out to the Latino community and make amends between them at the sheriff’s department.
The DOJ states that Arpaio’s office has had the DOJ’s findings report, but they have not heard anything about it. Authorities have also not been able to meet with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s attorney since February 6th, a meeting that is necessary to discuss terms of a consent agreement.
Joe Arpaie has refused the court-appointed monitor, stating that it will undermine his authority. DOJ officials have responded, saying that this refusal is a deal-breaker, and will end settlement negotiations, resulting in the lawsuit.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez sent a “notice of intent to file civil action” to an Arpaio lawyer on Wednesday, the first step in filing the promised lawsuit.
The civil rights allegations against the self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff” have caused critics like the National Council of La Raza, an outspoken advocacy group for Latinos to call for his resignation.
Joe Arpaio’s office is also facing tough criticism after it came to light that more than 400 sex-crime investigations had not been examined adequately, or even at all, during 2004-2007. These crimes included dozens of alleged child molestations. The Arizona sheriff has since apologized for the inadequate handling of the cases. The department has reopened 432 sex-crimes investigations, which has resulted in 19 arrests thus far.
A separate probe into Sheriff Joe Arpaio by a federal grand jury has been going on since December 2009, involving criminal abuse-of-power allegations against his office.
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May 10, 2012
Joe Arpaio is being railroaded by this illegal DOJ led by the BIGGEST CROOK HIMSELF-AKA ERIC the slimeball HOLDER! GETRIDOFHOLDERNOW! GO JOE! We're all WITH YOU! KEEP UP the good work OUTING OBOZO! NOBOZO 2012!
May 10, 2012
Voters need to insist from Washington and especially from RNC House speaker, John Boehner of Ohio and Dave Camp of Michigan, Chairman of the empowered Ways and Means Committee to stop blockading the 50-state E-Verify bill. Each citizen voter should call the Congressional switchboard at 202-224-3121. The State of Arizona challenged the feds who are entirely to blame for not enacting strict immigration laws, but encouraging foreigners by free welfare assistance for decades? Entry through stealth when impersonating a visitor and then intentionally overstaying their expired visa. Others just slipping past the agents at the border; all should classified as a felony. Government and special interest state the numbers of people coming here has been minimal for the since the prolonged deep recession? But if you ask the ranchers and other property owners along the border, they have a different story to tell? Even if less illegal aliens are arriving here, that cannot assuage that the U.S government has 20 million plus to contend with?
In a report this month it was revealed that illegal immigrants are filing tax returns and claiming nephews and nieces that live in Mexico as dependents. They're claiming up to 20 dependents and collecting $30,000 income tax refunds. The IRS is doing nothing about it even though they know it's occurring. In a calculation by this agency, those illegal aliens have claimed $4.2 Billion dollars with their government sanctioned ITIN number, which circumvents the use of a official Social Security number.
So the best they can do, is provoke individual states trying to protect their citizens from unfunded mandates. Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and a very few other states are the ‘Patsy’. They are being victimized by the Liberal run Obama’s Justice Department, although they turn a blind eye to violations of federal law, with the emergence of Sanctuary States like California, Nevada, Colorado, New York and more. Not only will the Attorney General Eric holder and his leftist attorneys bear down on states that defy his power, but anybody, who gets in the mix, is political fodder as with Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa Country. His only violation is he loves his country, observed the terrible consequences of the influx of illegal aliens who have damaged badly the state finances. Amongst the illegal invaders are criminals, that have saturated the city of Phoenix bring in the drug dealers, prostitution, robbery, sexual assaults on children and women and as widespread across the country drunken drivers; hit and runs.
When are the lawmakers in power going to grasp that real thinking Americans, as the Tea Party Movement, are not some small group of disgruntled voters, but rather the once 'silent majority', who are hushed no more? Thousands have never been to the election booth before are joining the TEA PARTY. We the People are frustrated and angry with both parties and they need to get it through in their head to listen to every voter or find themselves in the unemployment Line with Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana.
Indiana Secretary of State, a TEA PARTY leader, Mourdock challenged Lugar in part because of his constant leadership in pushing for amnesties for illegal aliens who have illegally stolen U.S. jobs.
NumbersUSA rated Sen. Lugar on 85 immigration actions since 1989. When each action was weighted according to the numerical impact, we found that he acted 81% of the time in favor of foreign workers and dependents over the interests of U.S. workers and dependents. That earned him a D-minus over his career, making him the worst Republican in the Senate (Sen. John McCain of Arizona is runner-up). He acted 84% of the time in favor of the Chain Migration of extended family of immigrants over the interests of U.S. workers. He acted 100% of the time in favor of foreign workers brought in through a random lottery.
• He acted 98% of the time for amnesty enticements and 76% of the time for other rewards for illegal aliens.
• And in 30 votes and co-sponsorships that were about direct importation of workers, he acted more than 99% of the time for more immigrant competition for U.S. workers.
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He did give tepid support to secure borders (C+) and interior enforcement (C) but tried to kill a pilot E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens from getting jobs back in 1996.
Begin ‘Attrition through Enforcement’ by enacting federal E-Verify to cast out illegal aliens from the workplace. Complete coverage of ‘Secure Communities” for every state to locate the foreign criminals. Replace all profiteering lawmakers and thereby cleaning house; put familiar TEA PARTY leaders in their place Then according to a recent study by the Heritage Foundation another Comprehensive Immigration Reform package, better known as AMNESTY, would cost taxpayers an estimated $2.6 Trillion dollars to process and complete. Another giant price tag we cannot accept. Currently the 50 states have unfunded mandates of supporting foreign nationals of $113 billion dollars annually and counting.
The Tea Party does not discriminate against any citizen, naturalized citizen or permanent resident, but are in opposition to the illegal immigration occupation from any person, from any country who came here without consent. The TEA PARTY comprises of small and large chapters throughout America of every nationality, every race and every religious denomination? Their agenda is to replace all lawmakers, Governors, Mayor, police chiefs and all elected administrators in every federal, state and municipal agency that doesn’t have the same loyal ideology of the Tea Party leaders. Dump the Eric Holders, the Napolitano’s, the Senator Feinstein’s out into the cold. If you cherish your sovereignty it is imperative we reject the growing rot in Congress that will benefit all of us, and then the TEA PARTY is the place to be.
The TP demands is a urgent need for a balanced tax code with no subsidies, loopholes for corporations, sugar industry or anybody else; an end of bureaucratic tricks to stop drilling on public lands or coastal waters with its massive deposits of oil, natural gas, that can ease our need for foreign imports and lessen the out-of-control 16 trillion dollar deficit. Make obsolete the Department of education and return the power to states, communities and parents for better educational performance. Downsize the Environmental Protection Agency and reverse the many of the unnecessary regulations that is crushing entrepreneur and small business opportunities. No more government bail outs for the friends of the Oval Office, no more ‘cronyism’ to Wall Street and an end to massive spending by Obama’s Czars. Introduce a waste and reduction law, which begins the process of shrinking the size of government.
May 11, 2012
Sheriff Joe Arpiao is a professional Law Enforcement Officer and is being targeted by the Dept of Justice for so called Civil Rights violations. Arpiao is a bigger man than Eric Holder who has been stone walling Congress failing to turn over documents the want. This is nothing more than type of politics we can expect from Washington rats nest. Seems like Holder can't take anyone saying "NO" to him so this appears to be a vandetta against Sheriff Joe.
May 12, 2012
sheriff joe has brought the crime rate down out there
May 17, 2012
Just keep doing the Job that the Federal Government refuses to do and uphold the oath you took to defend the constitution and the citizens of this nation. The gangsters in the whitehouse will be gone soon.