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| Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Excellent Rating 6 Months Before Being Sued |
| 2010-09-03 |
| Six months before the Justice Dept stepped into Sheriff's Joe office — ICE and other organizations gave his department an "excellent" rating. ICE officials evaluated how the sheriff's office performed under a law that allows specially trained local law enforcement officers to enforce parts of federal immigration law. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, which is the largest sheriff's office in the Arizona, has 189 officers who have been trained by ICE to enforce federal immigration statutes. Those are the statutes that Arizona can't have in their own state law, right? The report, crammed with acronyms and bureaucratese, is not light reading. But struggle through it, and the key sentence is this: "The OI and DRO supervisors consider the conduct and performance of the MCSO ... officers to be professional and meeting the requirement of the MOA." Translated, that means officials from the Homeland Security Department's Office of Investigation (OI), along with officials from the Detention and Removal Operations office (DRO), concluded that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), in its handling of illegal immigrants, acted in a professional manner and complied with a memorandum of agreement (MOA) under which the government gave them the authority to enforce federal law. That agreement included a ban on racial profiling. ICE investigators also interviewed top federal officials involved in illegal immigrant cases in Arizona. They found an "excellent" working relationship between the sheriff's office and the feds. ICE talked as well to federal prosecutors in Phoenix, who described the cases brought by Maricopa County as "high quality." Were those Bambi-appointed or Bush-appointed prosecutors? Or perhaps career prosecutors who tell it like it is? In all, it's a quite positive assessment of an operation that just six months later would come under the Justice Department's microscope for alleged civil rights violations. It also lends indirect support to Arpaio's contention that the Justice Department investigation is politically motivated. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #4 BO and Holder's Alinsky methods are going to bite them in the ass. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-09-03 23:02 |
| #3 Glad to see Arpaio's house is in order. This makes BO and Holder look like spiteful idiots on a witch hunt. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-09-03 23:01 |
| #2 The Democrats, hell-bent on losing 100 seats in the House, and 12-14 in the Senate, continue to ignore the mood of the country, and proceed with actions contrary to the national interest. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2010-09-03 15:34 |
| #1 Barry AND Holder......stick it in yur A$$e$ |
| Posted by: armyguy 2010-09-03 14:12 |