Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpiao, is giving the Feds fits!

Again, the local county sheriff is the highest elected law enforcement officer in America... and the Feds can't stand it.

They are trying to shut Sheriff Arpiao down on his crack down on illegals in Maricopa County... the only problem is that they actually do not have jurisdiction over the county sheriff because the elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement officer in our land.

The Feds are trying every way to subvert the constitutional authority of our Sheriff's offices... because the Feds know that the Sheriff can stop them dead in their tracks when trying to work in his territory.

This is one of the most dramatic events going on in America today... the efforts to do away with the people's elected law enforcement officer, the county sheriff.

FOX News report

Arizona Sheriff Launches Controversial Immigration Sweep
PHOENIX — An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose sweeps have led to allegations of racial profiling, said the rebuff from Washington won't stop him. He said he can still arrest immigrants under a state smuggling law and a federal law that gives all local police agencies more limited power to detain suspected illegal immigrants.

"It doesn't bother me, because we are going to do the same thing," said Arpaio, whose deputies had arrested 16 people by Friday evening on unspecified charges. "I am the elected sheriff. I don't take orders from the federal government."

The officers were participating in a federal program that grants a limited number of local police departments special powers to make immigration arrests and speed up deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Arpaio of his power to let 100 deputies make federal immigration arrests, but renewed another agreement that allows 60 jails officers to determine the immigration status of people in jail.

The sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio's deputies racially profile people. Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Arpaio's office over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.

"He is doing this to thumb his nose at the Obama administration," said Lydia Guzman, president of the Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.....

Now... I wonder why our federal government would want to prevent a Sheriff from arresting illegal aliens?

Should be self evident.

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