Taking Aim at Arpaio -- Napolitano Seeks to Emasculate Immigration Law Enforcement

Taking Aim at Arpaio
Napolitano Seeks to Emasculate Immigration Law Enforcement

Wall Street Journal -- October 16

"We arrest anyone who breaks the laws in the streets, including enforcing illegal immigration." -- Joe Arpaio

Sheriff continues tough tactics against illegals
    In defiance of efforts by the U.S. government to rein in his tactics against illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., on Friday launched a major crime-suppression operation in the suburbs of Phoenix.
    The operation took place on the same day that the Department of Homeland Security announced that it had signed revised agreements that enable 55 state and local law-enforcement agencies to arrest illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes. The revised agreements are meant to assert greater oversight over a federal immigration program that enlists and trains local police to identify suspected illegal-immigrant criminals in jails and on the streets. [...]
    Mr. Arpaio has said he can persevere with the backing of a state law targeted at human smugglers. According to the law, illegal immigrants can be arrested for smuggling themselves into the state.
Arizona Republic -- October 16
Arpaio launches crime sweep in northwest Valley
"What's changed?" Arpaio asked. "Politics has changed, because they don't like us going on the streets to catch illegals." This round of sweeps, Arpaio's 12th, is set to end late Saturday.