Former members of a task force on Secure Communities sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program.
Following a storm of criticism of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s connection of an HPV vaccine to “mental retardation,” Bachmann is seeking to hitch her presidential bid to the controversial Arizona sheriff who houses inmates in a “Tent City” and instituted chain gangs.
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With midterms a day away and early voting already underway in a number of states, conservatives and anti-illegal immigration groups are claiming that large numbers of undocumented immigrants are attempting to vote in an effort to sway election results toward Democrats. Groups like the pro-enforcement Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, More…
Today in news too bizarre to skip: Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff who makes illegal immigrant detainees wear pink underwear as a humiliation tactic, gave Sarah Palin a pair of pink underwear last week to welcome her to Phoenix.
Arpaio became famous for his purposefully harsh treatment of More…
Three immigrants in Georgia filed what some experts said could be the first legal challenge to the 287 (g) program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows the agency to delegate some immigration enforcement responsibilities to local police. The immigrants are seeking to have the case declared More…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial “America’s toughest sheriff” who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office was accused Wednesday of misspending up to $80 million in taxpayer funds since 2006.
Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will head to New Hampshire Sunday to headline the Nashua Republican City Committee lunch, fueling speculation that he hopes to run for the GOP’s presidential nomination in 2012, the CNN reported today. Arpaio’s spokesman didn’t exactly shoot down the idea: “People More…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial leading law enforcement officer in Maricopa County, has been delaying a Department of Justice investigation over alleged civil rights abuses by refusing to hand over documents to federal investigators. The investigation started in March 2009, but the DOJ issued an ultimatum More…
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