IT GETS WORSE: OBAMAS FEDS INVESTIGATE ARIZNA POLICE 4 CRACKING DOWN ON ILLEGALS

[SavetheWest]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_us/arizona_sheriff_probe

Ariz. sheriff's department target of federal probe
       
PHOENIX – Federal authorities told a high-profile Arizona sheriff Tuesday that they will investigate his department over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.

The U.S. Justice Department said in a letter to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that investigators will focus on alleged patterns of police discrimination based on national origin.

The letter offers no specific allegations. But Arpaio said he believes the investigation was spurred by his department's often controversial efforts to combat illegal immigration in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.

Arpaio's department is the largest participant in a federal program that allows local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws.

The department has aggressively pursued investigations under Arizona's employer sanctions law and a state anti-smuggling law.

The smuggling law was designed to help local police fight smugglers, but an interpretation by Maricopa County's top prosecutor opened the door for Arpaio's deputies to arrest people who pay smugglers and accuse them of being co-conspirators.

Arpaio has also launched crime sweeps in areas around Phoenix with high concentrations of Hispanics. Most recently, Arpaio began to separate illegal immigrants from other inmates in Tent City, a section of the county jail where all inmates are housed in tents.

Those tactics have attracted national attention and have led some critics, including immigration activists, to accuse Arpaio's department of racial profiling.

The sheriff said he will cooperate with the Justice Department. "If they want to come down, let them come," he said. "We'll open our books. We have nothing to hide."

[arksis]

This is such a crock! He is the ONLY law enforcement that is actually doing something and treating these crooks as they should be treated!

Jails are usually on alot of property, I say let the inmates "farm" the property for their food, make them toil and pay for their crimes. Too much tolerance has done this country nothing but harm. 

[Debbie Shafer]

This is all part of Islam's takeover of the US.  We are already weakened financially.

[briann]

Arizona and Texas had done a reasonable job enforcing the law... But our Gov cant have that.  They want to make them more like Cali, a sanctuary.

[New Yorker]

"The U.S. Justice Department said in a letter to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that investigators will focus on alleged patterns of police discrimination based on national origin."

What a complete crock!!! Of course they're going to have the same f***ing national origin! What do they expect on the border of Arizona, illegal aliens from Iceland!!? Damned leftist traitors!!!! 

[SavetheWest]

Maricopa county is actually enforcing the law.  They wouldn't look at the local police unless they was making a dent into the drug trade and illegal immigration.  Someone or some pressure group got their voices heard within the Obama Administration. 

[arksis]

Maricopa county is actually enforcing the law.  They wouldn't look at the local police unless they was making a dent into the drug trade and illegal immigration.  Someone or some pressure group got their voices heard within the Obama Administration. 

This makes perfect sense.