Sheriff Joe Arpaio challenges march in Washington with largest crackdown on undocumented in Arizona

[Joanne98]

Hundreds of civic organizations and activists are heading to the nation's capital to demand the White House and Congress the passage of an immigration reform that would allow millions to regularize their legal status.

Organizers are disappointed and frustrated at President Barack Obama for what they perceive as a failure to keep his campaign promise to work, during the first year of his Administration, on legalizing millions of individuals who lack legal documents but live, work or attend schools in the United States.

The mass mobilization is projecting thousands of people to show up in Washington this Sunday, March 21, and is seeking to pressure the government to move the prospect of an immigration reform from the back burner to the forefront of the political agenda.


In Arizona, however, Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio is launching a county-wide operation that, according to the press release, is mobilizing more than 400 personnel, including --for the first time-- patrol deputies who have received internal training to enforce immigration laws, as well as a number of volunteer posse and reserves. The operation will also utilize MCSO's air posse and a helicopter, according to the document.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio-challen-by-Eduardo-Barraza-100319-221.html

I hate this f***er!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. volunteer posses? Armed? Angry? Hell, where are their white sheets?

[havocmom]

3. Good thing AZ is broke. They can show empty pockets when they get sued for the shit that will ensue

Gonna be a trigger for a LONG HOTTER than necessary summer in Maricopa County

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. just as some sanity breaks out in some places, this happens.

he is a menace.

Rule of law? Hardly.

[Taverner]

2. Many of these folks ARE US citizens

Dad and mom were born here. They were born here.

But the life of a migrant worker means not a lot of paperwork is kept

[Loki]

5. The new Grand Imperial Wizard

Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio.....the new Klan just without the white sheet. I would like to see the Southern Poverty Law Center take this man down, and they could be the one's that do it. The only thing that the state of Arizona will understand is a civil rights suit that will bankrupt them. Go for it.

[howmad1]

6. Please people, stay the hell out of Arizona!

Bankrupt, state parks closing, last in education, speed cameras, anyone can carry a gun, guns legal in bars, rest areas closed, Jon Kyle, John McCain, rethuglican legislation, 120 degree heat, 60% rethuglican registration, Joe Arpio: Jeez, I could go on and on. Please keep out.

[proteus_lives]

7. Don't add 2nd Amendment rights to a list of bad things.

[classysassy]

8. Don't forget the minutemen

and their minutehags.

[amb123]

9. ALL HAIL KING JOE THE FIRST, EMPEROR OF THE KINGDOM OF MARICOPA!

Maricopa County is a Dictatorship, run by Joe and his Prime Minister, right-hand man, and grinning lackey, County Attorney Andrew Thomas. They have bombarded the County Board of Supervisors with $3.2 in lawsuits and charging them with supposed crimes designed to intimidate them and it's worked. And the people of Maricopa County keep reelecting Arpaio and Thomas because they're keeping them safe from the "Wetback Hordes!" And Arpaio consorts with Minutemen, Tea-Baggers and Neo-Nazis. And Andrew Thomas is thinking about running for Arizona Attorney General! And you wonder why Arizona's broke!

Arizona - Right-Wing Nutcase Capital of America! I think we've got even Texas beat!

:nuke:

[barbiegeek]

10. Give the Pres time, he'll get to it...we need the votes

If they are smart they'll pass it before 2010 elections so we can register them to vote. Repugs will fight this like mad, showing what racists they are.

[classysassy]

11. Just think what america would be like

without sheriff joe,the republican party,fox news,limbaugh,beck,sarah and the teabaggers(aka seabaggers),one word PARADISE.