Feds detail pattern of discrimination by MCSO

[MikeG]

Feds detail pattern of discrimination by Arpaio

The findings seem pretty lame. All civil. Based on statistics. Statistics that say illegal aliens are more likely to drive a car with expired tags, no insurance and no drivers license than legal residents. Also, statistically in Arizona, illegal immigrants are more likely to be of Hispanic origin. So, therefore, stopping cars with expired tags is racial profiling because they are more likely to be Hispanic. There are apparently no specific incidents they can point to. Just numbers. There are apparently no criminal violations.

The interesting part is the following and I believe is the underlying intent of the probe. This is the fastest I have ever seen the Feds work. I am not sure how significant this will be but it seems this is what the Obama administration was really after. Someone with more knowledge than I can answer what will happen to an illegal immigrant that is arrested for a misdemeanor and taken to the county jail. Will they know? Hopefully, felony arrests will still be run through the system. Every community that regularly runs their arrests through "Secure Communities" program is now on notice. If you catch too many, they will cut you off. As I understand it, everyone is run through so DHS isn't even alleging a misuse of their system so tying it the DoJ report to DHS seems like they are implementing their own discrimination by tying the "Secure Communities" program to Hispanic arrests.

But the fallout from the report was quickly evident: within two hours of Perez revealing the findings, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the federal government would remove the sheriff's authority to conduct immigration screenings in the jails.

"The Department of Homeland Security is troubled by the Department of Justice's findings of discriminatory policing practices within the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office," Napolitano said in a statement. "Discrimination undermines law enforcement and erodes the public trust. DHS will not be a party to such practices. Accordingly, and effective immediately, DHS is terminating MCSO's 287(g) jail model agreement and is restricting the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office access to the Secure Communities program."

[Norm357]

The Feds are just pissed because Joe is doing their job and showing them up.

[Joeyd6]

The Feds are just pissed because Joe is doing their job and showing them up.

And even worse...he is doing a better job than the feds....at half the cost....with support from the majority of the residents!

[retdetsgt]

Obama needs the Latino vote and he's willing to sacrifice the SW to get it.

[MikeG]

Obama needs the Latino vote and he's willing to sacrifice the SW to get it.

Joe's a politician so I expect the Dems to try and embarass him.

But this is the county jail which means this is where all the people arrested by every local agency goes. As I understand it, that means a if a city of phoenix cop arrests someone and brings them to the jail, they can no longer run an immigration check. The jail used to run everyone through it. So now, agencies with no ties to Arpaio and a jail program that was indiscriminate in it's use has been discontinued due to a completely unrelated investigation. "Secure communities" my a!!.

I am hoping some lawyer somewhere is drafting a motion to force them to open it back up. But it would have to go through the 9th circus so I have little hope.

Wait for the first arrestee that is an illegal alien files an appeal of his conviction because the consulate wasn't notified quickly enough because the jail was denied access to immigration computers.

And the illegal immigrant arrested for a misdemeanor and has a firearm. His immigration status would have made him prohibited possessor but now he walks because they can't up the charges and hold him on the felony. We had a case this year of an accidental shooting of a toddler with a gun from prohibited possessor (due to immigration status).