Inhofe: ‘I Believe in Racial and Ethnic Profiling’

Not many senators are willing to own up to this, but here’s Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) in today’s Fort Hood hearing in the Armed Services Committee. He made it clear he’s talking about the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 case as well. Notice how he portrays himself as a brave truth-teller More…

Tale of Two Joes: Arpaio Meets With Biden

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this morning that he’d met with Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Phoenix fundraising for Democratic members of Congress who could face tough Republican challengers in 2010. Biden was also touting the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Sheriff Arpaio Claims He Can Arrest Illegal Immigrants Even Without Federal Authority

Unhappy that the federal government took away some of his powers to enforce immigration law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona last week cited a non-existent law to support his claim that he can continue to arrest illegal immigrants on the street anyway, The Arizona Republic reports.

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Sheriff Joe Loses Some of His Immigration Enforcement Powers

Looks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., has lost some of his authority to arrest people he suspects are illegal immigrants. Under the controversial 287(g) program of the immigration law, Arpaio was one of many local sheriffs who were empowered to enforce federal immigration laws. Comments More…

ACLU Sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Arrest and Detention of U.S. Citizen

Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio is already being sued by the federal government for alleged racial profiling and related civil rights violations. Now, he’s being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, which claims he and his deputies abused their authority to More…

Obama, Racial Profiling and Immigration Law

When President Obama made unexpected comments about the long history of racial profiling by police in this country at his press conference last night, it was a surprise to many observers who’ve seen the President position himself as a “post-racial” political figure.

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Immigration Program Expands, Despite Abuse Record

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made a name for himself using controversial tactics targeting illegal immigrants in Arizona. The chief law enforcement officer of Maricopa County and author of the book “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Arpaio boasts that he’s arrested some 30,000 undocumented immigrants, many More…

Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio Instructs Deputies to Protect Themselves From Illegal Immigrant-Borne Swine Flu

It was the perfect opportunity for Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio. After all, it’s been more than a month since he was in the national spotlight when the federal government announced that it was investigating his office in Maricopa County for racial profiling and other civil rights abuses More…

Justice Department to Investigate Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Federal authorities told Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that they will investigate his department over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures — a claim his critics have been making for years.

According to The Associated Press, The Justice Department wrote in a letter that More…

‘Flying While Muslim,’ the New ‘Driving While Black’

The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a comment about airline safety.

Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from

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