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Arizona Rep. Giffords Shot; Details As They Come In
by coldwarrior ( 537 Comments › )Filed under Assassinations, Crime, Open thread at January 8th, 2011 - 3:30 pm
Republican Election Day Hotline 1-888-775-8117
by 1389AD ( 192 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2010, Republican Party at November 2nd, 2010 - 8:30 am
From ResistNet:
The Republican Party has set up a Hotline for election day, 1-888-775-8117, which will be staffed by attorneys, to handle polling issues and possible voter fraud or intimidation. If folks even guess that it might be taking place, they should call for free advice.
Thanks to Burn The Koran For Freedom.
(In)Justice Department Sues Sheriff Joe Arpaio
by 1389AD ( 159 Comments › )Filed under Barack Obama at September 5th, 2010 - 10:00 am
Just. Plain. Wrong.
I would be the first to admit that, both now and in the past, I’ve had mixed feelings about Joe Arpaio, the high-profile sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.
Be that as it may, this lawsuit is just plain wrong. It is a federal government attack, not only on the sheriff himself, but also on the state and people of Arizona.
F wrote:
FNC just had breaking news that the Justice Department is suing AZ Sheriff Arpaio in a civil rights case.
Fox News: Justice Dept. Sues Arizona Sheriff in Civil Rights Probe
Published September 02, 2010 | Associated Press
The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.
The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office’s defiance “unprecedented,” and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against people with limited English skills.
Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15 months ago.
Arpaio’s attorney, Robert Driscoll, declined immediate comment on the lawsuit, saying he had just received it and hadn’t yet conferred with his client.
Arpaio’s office had said it has fully cooperated in the jail inquiry but won’t hand over additional documents into the examination of the alleged unconstitutional searches because federal authorities haven’t said exactly what they were investigating.
It’s the latest action against Arizona by the federal government, which earlier sued the state to stop its strict new immigration law that requires police officers to question people about their immigration status.
“The actions of the sheriff’s office are unprecedented,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department’s civil rights division. “It is unfortunate that the department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities.”
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix and names Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the county.
Arizona’s new law — most of which a federal judge has put on hold — mirrors many of the policies Arpaio has put into place in the greater Phoenix area, where he set up a hot line for the public to report immigration violations, conducts crime and immigration sweeps in heavily Latino neighborhoods and frequently raids workplaces for people in the U.S. illegally.
Arpaio believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration sweeps, patrols where deputies flood an area of a city — in some cases heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders.
…The sheriff’s office has said half of the 1,032 people arrested in the sweeps have been illegal immigrants.
Last year, the federal government stripped Arpaio of his special power to enforce federal immigration law. The sheriff continued his sweeps through the enforcement of state immigration laws.
…In a separate investigation, a federal grand jury in Phoenix is examining allegations that Arpaio has abused his powers with actions such as intimidating county workers by showing up at their homes at nights and on weekends.
But wait, there’s more…
Obama Justice Dept. Files Another Lawsuit Against Arizona Authorities
August, 31, 2010 — nicedeb
…This time, the lawsuit is against Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges for (if you can believe this) requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.
No I’m not making this up.
This is from The Washington Post, okay?
The Justice Department filed another lawsuit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requiring noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.
The suit against the Phoenix area Maricopa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer (R) over the state’s new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.
In Monday’s lawsuit, Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work. That violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, the department said.
The law’s anti-discrimination provision “makes it unlawful to treat authorized workers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status,” said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
He said the government “is acting now to remedy this pattern or practice of discrimination.”
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The government is asking a judge within the Justice Department unit to order the Maricopa colleges to pay a civil penalty of $1,100 for each of the 247 non-U.S.-citizen job applicants it says were required to produce the additional documents. It says the colleges ended the practice in January.
As Doug Ross notes, this lawsuit will intimidate employers into more permissive hiring practices:
A quarter of a million dollar fine will definitely have employers thinking twice about checking job candidates’ bonafides. And that is the intent.
And it’s but one step among many.
Keep reading. Among other things, the Justice Dept is investigating Joe Arpaio for enforcing immigration laws.
Up is down, black is white, night is day…I’m not sure how much more of this the country can take….
And more…
As nicedeb also reminds us:
And, of course, they’re suing the State of AZ for enforcing immigration laws with SB1070.
Last week, the Obama State Dept handed in its first ever report to the UN Human rights council, and besides being sickeningly self-congratulatory about it’s own wonderful accomplishments in the area of human rights, it singled out the State of AZ’s new immigration law as a human rights deficiency “that is being addressed in a court action.”
In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to “internationalism run amok.”
An AZ Sheriff recently opined, “Our own government has become our enemy”.
It sure looks that way.
Also see:
Illegal immigrant drunk driver who killed Catholic nun was released by feds not once, but TWICE!
by Bob in Breckenridge ( 169 Comments › )Filed under Political Correctness, Progressives at August 3rd, 2010 - 4:30 pm
But, you have to remember that the scumbag was just here doing jobs that us lazy Americans wouldn’t do…/So give him a break, won’t you please?
The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday.
The man, Carlos Montano, a county resident, had been arrested by police twice before on drunk-driving charges, and on at least one of those occasions county police reported him to federal authorities.
“We have determined that he is in the country illegally. He has been arrested by Prince William County Police in the past,” said Officer Jonathan Perok, a police spokesman, who said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was notified at the time of one of those arrests.
Officer Perock said Montano was in deportation proceedings at the time of this weekend’s killing, but was out on his own recognizance.
(Liberalism. The gift that keeps on giving. But I digress.)
A call to ICE was not immediately returned, but the incident raises questions about the agency’s policy of only detaining some illegal immigrants awaiting deportation, while releasing others.
The latest ICE statistics show the agency is actually detaining fewer people now on an average daily basis than they did in 2009.
The Sunday morning crash killed Sister Denise Mosier and injured two other nuns as they were driving to a retreat at the Benedictine Monastery in Bristow, Va. The two injured nuns were in critical but stable condition, according to St. Gertrude High School in Richmond, run by the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia.
I happened to find a list in the Washington Examiner of some of the crimes previously committed by this piece of shit criminal illegal alien-
April 2009…he was arrested for driving without a license and convicted in June.
October 2008…he was stopped for driving 55 in a 35 mph zone, and was found to have a .17 blood alcohol level. Montano was sentenced to three years probation and his driver’s license was suspended.
December 2007…he was arrested for being drunk in public.
July 2007…he was charged with DUI and convicted later that same year.
Though Immigration and Customs enforcement ordered Montano to be deported in March 2009, he continued to have run-ins with the law, and remained free.
According to spokesman Jonathan Perok, Prince William County Police notified ICE after both his first and second DUI arrests. The department is now investigating how the illegal alien was able to obtain a valid driver’s license.
Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William Board of Supervisors, issued the following statement on the case: “The despicable thing is that this criminal was … handed over to ICE twice, and released by ICE twice. He’s gone out an killed a nun. That’s a perfect example of what’s wrong with immigration enforcement in this country. The blame is on representatives in Congress for being so flaccid on the issue, and they continue not to fund the deportation of illegal immigrants in this country.”
This case is a tragic example of how the federal government has abandoned their duty to all of us. How many more innocent Americans have to die before either the feds do their job and enforce immigration laws, or the states ignore Obama’s meddling and do it for themselves?
Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano are just as responsible, through their inaction, for the death of Sister Denise Mosier as is the illegal alien who smashed into her.
