
"This week's ruling by the Supreme Court was a step in the right direction but it was hardly enough." -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, immigration hardliner, in a fundraising appeal. On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down three of four parts of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070, and left open the possibility of striking the fourth later.





It's amusing to think of that turd standing there, fingers in his ears, as the verdict is described, going LALALALALALA so that he can imagine it said whatever he wants it to.
If you listen to the mainstream media the Court upheld the key provision of the Arizona law, but if you read the decision, that didn't really happen. In the right case that provision is gone. The Court ruled against Arizona, but apparently Joe and the mainstream media didn't read it that way.
These southern states ought to ask the northern states how they handle illegal immigration. How do you deport anyone Canadian looking?
It appears that to the extreme (and not so extreme) right, the Supreme Court, much like the Constitution, is the law of the land only when it agrees with your opinion, otherwise it can be ignored.
Why doesn't this guy retire, isn't he 70 or so? Certainly he could do that and afford to, but sometimes people keep working just to prove their ideology in some businesses and also to cover up things that may bring them to court in lawsuits or criminal investigations...Sickening that some very well off old folks in positions like these don't get out and let the young ones have jobs, his replacement will bring in openings below him and all the way down to the youngster just finishing law enforcement training. That is a big problem with employment in America, knowing when to retire and letting youngsters have your job - well maybe there are some real sadists like him that enjoy looking at young graduates sweating unemployment and looking for any work to support themselves independently, what do you think? Parents, you should be making an issue of this too because your grads are coming home to your place when jobs are not open for them like his link that should be.
Sheriff Joe is 80, which may explain a lot. Here in Maricopa County his support is eroding, as even the Arizona Republic(an) is raising serious questions about the $50 million the county has been forced to spend on litigation of Joe's egregious abuses of power. Looks like we won't have Joe to kick around for much longer, but he'll certainly try to enforce the part of this law left standing while every other head law enforcement official in the state raises questions about how to keep from being sued no matter what police do. Of course, being sued is grist to Old Joe's mill
I'm surprised the sheriff has time to worry about immigration reform laws. I thought he was busy searching for the president's birth certificate.
The citizens of Arizona do not have a problem with illegal immigration, we do have a problem with our state selling guns to known drug dealers in Mexico. Perhaps we need to start occupying gun shows.There would be no problem at the border if they decided to legalize drugs in order to stop the violence and innocent murder of Dea officers who risk their lives everyday, not to mention there is absolutely no help for addicts in the state of Arizona, our Mental Health dept. is one of the worst in the nation which advocates the use of prescription drugs.Mental Health facilities actually get paid by the amount of prescription drugs you give to a patient(which they now refer to as clients, moving the definition away from serving to selling.)