FILE -- In this July 17, 2012, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a press conference in Phoenix. The tough-talking sheriff is the last man standing of the three Phoenix politicians who made Arizona a leader in the crackdown against illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
FILE -- In this Nov. 8, 2011, file photo, Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, left, joins Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpiao during a press conference in Mesa, Ariz. Pearce, the sponsor of Arizona's groundbreaking SB1070 immigration enforcement law, and a close ally of the sheriff, was pushed out of politics in a recent recall election, leaving Arpaio the last man standing of the three Phoenix politicians who made Arizona a leader in the crackdown against illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
FILE -- In this April 11, 2012, file photo, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas arrives at a press conference in Phoenix. Thomas, the top prosecutor in the state’s largest county and a close ally of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, lost a Republican primary bid to become the state’s attorney general and was later stripped of his legal license. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
FILE -- In this July 17, 2012, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a press conference in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
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chatmandu002 posted at 9:39 am on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
So the Administration Press (AP) is getting involved with misinformation and all egged on by liberal open boarder and pro-illegal activist/supporter Randy Parraz.
Go Sheriff Joe, we got your back. Enforce all the laws all the time. (the liberal/progressives hate it when I say that) LOL
one of the last posted at 10:25 am on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
No mention of the 400+ Pedophiles that Arpaio let slide by not investigating so they could go out and rape more children.
e5282003 posted at 10:36 am on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
[beam
] Come on Joe,you are the only one that seems to care if we get over run and over taxed because we are over run by criminals..
Keep Joe,or you may get another Napolitano...
k33j88 posted at 11:27 am on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
Thank you Sheriff Arpaio for enforcing the laws on the books. We are a nation of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens, not law-breaking, tax users.
phxvato1202 posted at 1:26 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
you have the sheriff himself breaking the laws of this state and you thank him? state law says that taxpayers money and rights have to be protected right? but yet arpaio for all those years refused to have his dept audited which is a law and requirement so is this breaking the law? you bet it is but your blinders will never allow you to accept that FACT. If anything we need to thank the sheriff for is the millions of tax dollars wasted because of his inept ability to do the job required. we really can't thank him him for his failure to investigate over 400 sex crimes that were within his jurisdiction right? Let's call it what it really is, most of you that have posted in arpaios favor is due to your racists hearts. The spin so many that think like you k33j8, e528003, especially a major racists like chatmundu is that you want others to think you are so patriotic and want the laws followed but yet the politicians here in arizona break them constantly and you have no problem with it, it's called hypocrisy and that is because they are all white like you and you see no blemish on the white of their skin. pure and simple you are racists and probably hardcore too.
downtownresident posted at 1:56 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
Joe's a joke. A sad joke. It would be nice to see a professional law officer as the head of the sheriff's office, not some bungling old publicity hound.
I wonder who Olivia Cortez will be endorsing?[beam]
samkat posted at 5:17 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
Last: Do some honest research and see what the backlog is for sex crime cases in the various local law enforcement offices. Sorry that your liberal blinders keep you cloistered in your small world. Ditto for DTR.
samkat posted at 5:19 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
PS: Randy Parraz does not speak for me. In fact, as far as I am concerned, he can stuff it.
Brittanicus posted at 8:22 pm on Thu, Sep 13, 2012.
THE LAST RESORT? THE TEA PARTY OF AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
President Obama should he win the election has promised that he would force passage of another Comprehensive Immigration policy. This would then substantiate that both parties would never fully enforce immigration laws, whether going against the U.S. constitution by presidential authority as we saw with passage of the Dream Act. Since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill signed into law, everything has been compromised by a failure to fully fund the policies. This has been proven by systematic failure to make illegal entry a felony, the fact the real double layer fence doesn’t exist, that the instigators of Sanctuary city ordinances are not punished by ICE and that the Birth instant baby citizenship law hasn’t been amended in the name of saving taxpayers over $100 billion dollars annually.
America has giant magnetism to people who are drawn here for public programs, that Obama czars have compromised welfare essentially drafted for citizens and lawful immigrants. These illegal entries that skirt our laws know more about our benefit laws than a good many U.S. citizens? This has especially drained the treasury of states run mainly by liberal-Marxist assemblies as California, Nevada, and New York with bloated populations of illegal aliens. Over past decades our nation has been under assault by the poverty of other countries, bringing their unborn babies here to take advantage of a passionate country that in this present climate can no longer afford to feed the world, or offer uncompensated health care. Even more significant is the onslaught of parents and children that lawfully enter our country through Chain Migration.
These hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars should be spent on the legal population, not in harboring foreign nations that continually challenge our laws and succeed with Liberal interpretation of our laws in the courts. Neither Obama nor Romney will enforce immigration laws, but the thorough saturation of TEA PARTY legislators into the Republican Party will have great influence and empowerment to propel the Senate and House into fighting against the Socialistic conspiracy or the GOP elitists who want to keep things as they are?
Here are a few of the issues that can be altered by the TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP:
1. The TEA PARTY can force a vote on the ‘Legal Workforce Act’ (E-Verify) and enact it as mandatory in every business nationwide. Those who feel they are not accountable will be looking at hefty fines, loss of assets and even prison. All those who ignore the I-9 audits in not implementing the computer to detect illegal aliens in the workplace will be sanctioned?
2. The TEA PARTY will force a vote on the ‘Birthright Citizenship Act’ concluding once and for all, that pregnant women can no longer gain citizenship through a misguided loophole for a child, just by slipping past Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) at the border or over staying a visa, leading ultimately to yet another ‘Blanket Amnesty’. What about American teenagers, who have been pushed out of jobs that were the monopoly for our kids a couple of decades back?
Both major political parties wants a true end to illegal immigration, but the millions of citizens and residents in the TEA PARTY will insure that citizens and lawful immigrants always get first priority—not pandering to foreign nationals. Incidentally—readers should go to teaparty.org and then judge for yourself, if Obama is Liberal friends in the press are concealing the truth?
ATTN: The TEA PARTY will be safeguarding the nationwide election procedure, watching for non-citizens voting in November. As for Sheriff Joe, if the election for him is not derailed by “Voter Fraud” he will certainly win? Joe Arpaio must fight against such radical organizations La Raza, that are is being funded by the U.S government, with taxpayer’s money.
bobunf posted at 9:32 am on Fri, Sep 14, 2012.
Those who congratulate Sheriff Arpaio for enforcing "all the laws all the time" must have some sense of disappointment when considering the Sheriff's actual record in that department:
From 2002 to 2009 in the jurisdiction of Maricopa County’s Sheriff VIOLENT CRIME rates INCREASED 58%. But in Phoenix such crime DECREASED14%, in Mesa DECREASED 31%, in Scottsdale DECREASED15%, in Tempe DECREASED 26%.
Maricopa has become a “sanctuary county” for burglars, thieves, rapists, child molesters and murderers.
The Sheriff even has a policy to this effect: thefts up to and beyond $100,000 are not investigated (unless the victim is a VIP of the proper kind). Just give the victim a case number so he can call his insurance company.
It's part of the whole "expensive, incompetent, corrupt and sadistic" thing.