So, what's the problem?

[Sassy]

Why would the Feds do that???   

Feds limit Ariz. sheriff's crackdown on illegal immigrants


Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial "crime suppression operations" despite a Department of Homeland Security decision to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status, the East Valley Tribune reports.
"It's all politics," says Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County.

Arpaio will still have the power to check the immigration status of people booked by his officers, but not the authority to conduct street patrols looking for illegal immigrants. His "crime suppression operations" are saturation patrols in designated areas where deputies would find illegal immigrants by stopping them for traffic infractions and minor violations, the paper says.

The Department of Justice and other federal agencies are investigating the sheriff's office on accusations of racial profiling during the operations, the paper says.

Arpaio said he will be able to still conduct the crime sweeps under state human smuggling laws and an obscure federal law that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants.

A spokesman for the Phoenix office of ICE declined to comment until after pending agreements with the country are signed.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/10/arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-says-he-will-continue-his-controversial-crime-suppression-operations-despite-a-department-of-homel.html

[bayview]

   Don't seek out and arrest people breaking the law?

[MountainDon]

There are many places that have that policy of leaving the illegals alone, even if the illegal may be arrested for some "real" crime such as burglary, robbery, etc. ABQ, across the river, is one of those; has been for several years. I'm uncertain how long. Yesterday the incumbent mayor got ousted, replaced by a Republican. Maybe that will be changed there?

[ScottA]

They pulled the same thing here in OK. I watched an interview with some Tulsa police who where frustrated by the fact every time they turn illegals over to ICE they just let them go. They said all the extra paperwork was a waste of time so now the cops mostly just let them go too. A freind of mine was hit by an illegal with no drivers licence and no insuance and the police did not arrest the guy. They let him walk away but impounded his car.

[Virginia Gent]

Why? Because it's the Government; if it makes sense, or is easy ... then it can't be the correct answer 

[pagan]

What else should we expect?

[Woodsrule]

Sheriff Joe for President!!

[pagan]

Wonder if he'd make members of congress dress in pink underwear?

[Sassy]

    That would be good!   

[RainDog]

Oh, but the authorities have the time to show up at my door with badge and gun a couple years back to present me with a warning/citation for the grass being too high at one of my rent houses during a long rainy spell. And then publish it on the web.

Go figure.

[Woodsrule]

Rain Dog,


Please report to the nearest re-education camp to receive your long grass indoctrination. You have committed the class A Felony of 1st Degree Grass Abuse. You may forestall this indoctrination via a donation to the Large D democrat party