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Arizona Immigration Reform Requirement: Nix Six Month Wait

Arizona has a different reality for the undocumented than in most parts of the country. So there are different demands the pro-immigrant community should make on the U.S. Congress in regards to comprehensive immigration reform, if any positive effect is to be felt soon in Sand Land. See also: -Jan ... More >>

Arizona's Top Ten News Stories of 2012

All in all, 2012 hasn't been that bad of a year. Some good stuff transpired, and some of it happened because New Times' scribes made it happen. Usually to some very deserving recipients. The great H.L. Mencken said it long ago, and it still holds true today: "Journalism is to politician as dog is t ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Early Christmas Gift from President Obama and the U.S. Attorney's Office

See also: Andy Thomas Needs a Perp Walk With His Papi, Sheriff Joe Arpaio See also: No Charges for Arpaio: U.S. Closes Criminal Investigation of Maricopa Sheriff and Former County Attorney Andrew Thomas See also: The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come? ... More >>

Video Released of David Hulstedt Shot in Back, Then Dragged 400 Feet on Knees by Scottsdale Police

See also: Scottsdale Police Used Excessive Force in '08 Shooting of Man Left as Paraplegic, Judge Rules After writing Tuesday about the troubling case of David Hulstedt, the mentally ill man shot in the back by Scottsdale police, we obtained the full video (see below) of the incident from Hulstedt ... More >>

Scottsdale Police Used Excessive Force in '08 Shooting of Man Left as Paraplegic, Judge Rules

Scottsdale police used excessive force in 2008 when they shot a man in the back without a warning, rendering him a paraplegic, a judge has ruled. David Hulstedt, who was 35 at the time of the shooting, filed a $40 million lawsuit against the city in 2009. An August 6 ruling in the suit by U.S. Dis ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Ends, and Yes, Joe's Still Guilty as Sin

See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett "Shut Up" Palmer and Flunky Brian Sands Under Oath As U.S. District Judge G. M ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform? And All Aboard the Undocubus

Arpaio's Kumbaya moment comes around 28 minutes in... See also: Puente Kicks Off "Undocubus" with Pro-Immigrant March See also: The complete slideshow of Puente's "Undocubus" Pro-Immigrant March Well, I reckon we can just forget about that racial-profiling trial underway against Sheriff Joe Arpaio ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Leg ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett "Shut Up" Palmer and Flunky Brian Sands Under Oath

See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial to Answer Examples of Seemingly Bigoted Leadership See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Deputy Says Sheriff Is Misinformed About Illegal Immigration Patrols

See Also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett Palmer and Brian Sands Under Oath See Also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See Also: Joe Arpaio's Deputy Thinks Most Day-Laborers Are UndocumentedMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is sometimes misinformed about his infamous crime-sup ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Struggles to Answer Examples of Seemingly Bigoted Leadership in Racial-Profiling Trial

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a self-promoting bigot of a politician who influences his deputies with discriminatory ideas that flow down from the top. That was the underlying theme of hours of questioning by Stanley Young, one of the lawyers who representatives Hispanics suing the county in a major racia ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, And Yes, He's Guilty as Sin

See also: Joe Arpaio Racial-Profiling Trial Draws Protestors' Calls for Justice on Opening Day See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Case Costs County Close To $1 Million, So Far See also: Joe Arpaio Heads to Trial July 19 in Racial Profiling Lawsuit Nothing to see here, move along. That's the m ... More >>

Puente's "Undocubus" Set to Travel to Democratic National Convention

See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer Afraid While most pro-immigrant activists are focusing on educating people about President Obama's new immigration policy regarding DREAM Act students, which promises to stop the deportations of ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Racial-Profiling Lawsuit Trial Still Set for July 19; Judge Rules He Doesn't Have Conflict

See also: U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow Sets Up Sheriff Arpaio for Knockout in Racial-Profiling Case; Ruling Describes Deputies' Dirty Tricks See also: Joe Arpaio Admits Racial Profiling, Takes Bigoted Suggestions From Supporters, as MCSO Deputies Pass Racist E-Mails and Racially Profile Th ... More >>

Bill Montgomery Rushes to Arpaio's Aid — Just As Disbarred Predecessor Andy Thomas Used to Do

Sheriff Arpaio Racial-Profiling Lawsuit Court Records Summarize Case; Read New "Findings of Fact" & Other Documents

A truckload of paperwork was filed today in the racial profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office, including succinct accounts of the allegations and responses by both sides.The case involves several plaintiffs, including immigrant Jose Ortega Melendres, but was expa ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Office, in Seeming Defiance of Judge, Arrests Five Suspected Illegal Immigrants on Human-Smuggling Charges

​   The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested five men last night on suspicion of human smuggling and conspiracy, days after a federal judge's ruling on such investigations. Looks like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, under more pressure than ever to reform his ways, is sticking to his state ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Still Silent on Judge Murray Snow's Ruling on Human-Smuggling Investigations

​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to have been stunned into silence by a federal court ruling intended to hamper his office's ability to conduct immigration enforcement operations.U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow ruled last week in a racial-profiling lawsuit against Arpaio and the Sherif ... More >>

Judge Sets Up Sheriff Arpaio for Knockout in Racial Profiling Case; Ruling Describes Deputies' Dirty Tricks

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow​ U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow set up Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a knockout in his latest ruling on a racial-profiling lawsuit.Snow's ruling (see below) in the Melendres Vs. Arpaio case eviscerates the sheriff's office for its record-shreddin ... More >>

Arpaio Corruption: The Feds Have Spoken, But Justice Won't Be Served Until the Sheriff's Indicted

Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Case: Summary Judgment Hearing Set for December 22

If there were Black Hole of Calcutta for bad sheriffs, is there any doubt that Joe Arpaio would be in it? Arpaio, the biggest un-indicted criminal in Arizona, is responsible for so much malfeasance, illegal activity and human misery, that his Teflon Don persona continues to amaze, even as the n ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Cooperating (Finally) With Justice Department in Civil-Rights Probe

  Feds' obedient pet? Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office finally is cooperating with the feds in a civil-rights probe, court records state.​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio finally is cooperating with the U.S. Justice Department in its civil-rights probe, thanks to ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Slapdown: Judge Rejects Request To Seal Depositions in Melendres

Arpaio: the gift that keeps on giving... Judge G. Murray Snow, the federal judge in the three-year-long racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, has rejected a motion by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers to seal videotaped depositions of Arpaio, former Chief Deputy Dav ... More >>

Hot Mess at the DPS: A Party-Loving DPS Pilot Was Fired After His Bitter Ex-Lover Complains to Her Daddy — Now the Agency's Director

Heroin-Filled Hiking Boots Earn Mexican Doctor Seven-Year Prison Sentence

www.nrainsights.com​Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39,&nb ... More >>

Sheriff's Office Gets More Time to Sort Through Recovered E-mails in Racial Profiling Case

Image: Arizona Court of AppealsU.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow​ A federal judge today allowed the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office more time to sort through recovered e-mails for confidential info that doesn't pertain to an ongoing racial-profiling lawsuit. The company that saved the recov ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Sanctioned by Judge in Racial Profiling Lawsuit, Must Do-Over Deposition

photo by Adriane Goetz A second deposition? This time, I gotta read that book I wrote...District Court Judge G. Murray Snow has ordered sanctions in the big Melendres v. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit still ongoing in federal court. The sanction addresses in a very measured way the systematic destr ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Secret Immigration File, and David Hendershott's Secret AOL Account. Plus, Hendy's Depo Now Scheduled for February 12

Chief Deputy David Hendershott's depo in the Melendres suit, set for Feb. 12Oral arguments took place February 4 regarding a sanctions motion from the plaintiffs in the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit now underway. I had to be out of town on an assignment, and so could not att ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Willful Ignorance, the MCSO's Shredding, and David Hendershott's Secret AOL Account

Arpaio's rotund Cardinal Richelieu: MCSO Chief Deputy David Hendershott Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit fired another salvo at the MCSO on Wednesday. In the latest bid for sanctions against the MCSO, attorneys from the firm of Steptoe & J ... More >>

Tuned In: The MCSO Pointed Guns at Siblings, Both U.S. Citizens, After a Deputy’s Attention Was Drawn to Them by Spanish-Language Music Blaring from Their Car

Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

Joe Arpaio's Deputies Admit Destroying Evidence in Racial Profiling Lawsuit

Nixon redux: Document shredding, deleted e-mails. What's next, secret tapes?In a stunning revelation recently made public as part of the ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an MCSO sergeant has admitted that the departmen ... More >>