Sheriff Arapio was found guilty of racial profiling in the eyes of public opinion with the help of pro illegal alien advocacy groups. Looks like Phoenix is well on its way to becoming another sanctuary city for illegal aliens thanks in large part to our ACLU.
The controversial agreement that authorized Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies to act as federal immigration agents on the streets appears to have ended. The jail-screening effort helped officials catch nearly 30,000 illegal immigrants since the program began in February 2007, but it was the street-level enforcement that caused the most controversy.
Without an agreement that authorizes immigration screenings on the street, deputies will need probable cause to detain a suspected illegal immigrant until federal agents can determine the suspect's immigration status.
The Sheriff's Office had been operating under an umbrella agreement that authorized the street-level enforcement and jail operations, but U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced that all the contracts with local law-enforcement agencies were under review. Federal officials have come under increasing pressure from civil-rights, labor, religious and pro-immigrant groups to end the program, known as 287(g), because of fears of racial profiling.
Sheriff's deputies will still enforce the state's human-smuggling law, which allows illegal immigrants to be charged as co-conspirators in their own smuggling, but a conviction requires proving clear links to some sort of smuggling activity, said Dan Pochoda, Arizona ACLU legal director.
Analysis of arrest records from 10 of the sheriff's crime-suppression operations showed that more than half the illegal immigrants arrested during the sweeps were held on federal immigration violations and hadn't committed another crime.
ICE agents told sheriff's deputies that they could not arrest suspected illegal immigrants who met that criteria and instead had to free them after giving them a "notice to appear" at ICE for processing.
A new Arizona sheriff has dissolved a policy that once helped the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement keep immigrants behind bars and sparked civil rights woes against his predecessor.
Penzone said that going forward, if ICE wants to keep immigrants in the state's most populous county in custody, they will be required to "take a more aggressive position" and obtain an arrest warrant meriting the additional time in custody.
"MCSO has implemented a policy which will undoubtedly result in dangerous criminal aliens being released to the street to re-victimize the innocent citizens of that community," ICE spokeswoman Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe said in a statement. “Additionally, the new policy puts ICE officers at a higher risk as more fugitive operations teams will need to arrest criminal aliens outside of the secure confines of the county jail."
The legal trouble that may have sparked the new rule may have been a federal case lodged against outgoing Sheriff Joe Arpaio in December. He lost his reelection bid to his Democratic opponent, Penzone, in November.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2976588President Trump has been clear in affirming the critical mission of DHS in protecting the nation and directed the Department to focus on removing illegal aliens who have violated our immigration laws, with a specific focus on those who pose a threat to public safety, have been charged with criminal offenses, have committed immigration violations or have been deported and re-entered the country illegally.