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Obama Administration strips illegal
immigration policing powers from Arizona sheriff
A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking
a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his
powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama administration.
Joe Arpaio, a gruff lawman who styles himself as America's toughest sheriff,
has won acclaim from US anti-immigrant forces for his relentless pursuit of
llegal immigrants in Maricopa county, Arizona, a fast-growing county of 4
million people that is home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city.
Arpaio's aggressive tactics include the jailing of illegal immigrants in
tent cities surrounded by barbed wire.
Arpaio also came in for criticism when he appeared on the Fox reality show
Smile: You're Under Arrest.
Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland
security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorized to enforce federal
immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and
by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.
But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation
from the justice department, Arpaio was stripped of his federal authority
to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of
Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal
immigration".
For his part Arpaio has promised to continue chasing illegal immigrants
using state laws. In an angry press conference, he called US homeland
security officials "liars" and said he would personally drive those caught
on the streets to the border if federal officers refused to take arrested
illegal immigrants into custody. "I'll take a little trip to the border and
turn them over to the border," he said.
Arpaio's critics decried his continued plans to arrest illegal immigrants
and said the Obama administration should sever all ties with him.
The now-rescinded authority to conduct field sweeps of illegal immigrants
yielded only about 300 out of the roughly 33,000 total arrests of illegal
immigrants since 2007, the Obama administration has done little to curtail
Arpaio, said Frank Sharry, executive director of immigration reform advocacy
group America's Voice.
"He's going to go down in history as a man who terrorised the Latino
community for the sake of his own visibility and political popularity,"
Sharry said. "The fact that the Obama administration would lend any of its
legitimacy to any of his activities is surprising and disappointing."
Arpaio was first elected sheriff in 1993.
"The department of homeland security is making a historic mistake if it
continues its relationship with Sheriff Joe Arpaio," said Paco Fabian,
spokesman for immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice. "The
federal government is lending its full force and legitimacy to a rogue cop
certain to go down in history as a serial violator of civil rights and an
enemy of the Latino community."
An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the US. The federal
government is virtually paralysed over how to react, with conservatives like
Arpaio calling for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants and
increased border enforcement. Obama, many Democrats and some Republicans
call for a system that will allow most to gain legal status after paying a
fine and learning English, but reform efforts in 2006 and 2007 withered
under sustained rightwing opposition.
More than 60 law enforcement agencies across the country have signed onto
the same programme under which local officers are effectively deputised to
enforce immigration law. But critics of the programme say it wastes police
resources needed to fight street crime, promotes racial profiling of
Hispanics, targets peaceful workers, breaks up families and breeds distrust
of police among immigrants, who become afraid to report crime for fear they
will be asked for immigration papers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/09/obama-immigration-arpaio-arizona-sheriff
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