John Morton

Bill Montgomery's Smoking Gun: ICE PowerPoint Shows Monty's Minions How to Deport More Immigrants

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama's proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite ... More >>

Arizona Deserves No Peace From Pro-Immigrant Forces

Suzanne Barr, Longtime Aide to Janet Napolitano, Resigns as ICE Chief of Staff Over Sex-Harassment Accusations

See also: Janet Napolitano's Lady-Friends Don't Like Men, According to Angry ICE Employee See also: Janet Napolitano's Alleged "Frat House" Leader Suzanne Barr Now on Leave Suzanne Barr, a longtime aide to Janet Napolitano, has resigned her post as chief of staff of the U.S. Immigration and Cus ... More >>

DREAMers Score a Win with Obama's Immigration Initiative, But the War Is Far from Over

Where was ICE? Feds Supervised 287(g) Program in Jails, Touted Numerous "Success Stories" This Year

John Morton, director of ICE.​ The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau isn't ready to comment this morning on the impact of severing ties with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Which is a shame, because we have some good questions for them. Like, why was ICE supervising operatio ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Jails Off Limits to Federal Immigration Detainees, John Morton Tells Bill Montgomery

ICE honcho John Morton, back when the two guys to the left were still in office...In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio's 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigrati ... More >>

Phoenix DREAM Activist Recognized on Capitol Hill

Angelica Hernandez being recognized by U.S. Senator from Illinois Dick DurbinOn Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held its first DREAM Act hearing since the legislation was first proposed a decade ago. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, announced the hearing last week. Durbin ... More >>

Immigrants Who Fight Deportation Are Packed Into Federal Gulags for Months or Years Before Their Cases Are Heard

Phoenix Cross-Country Coach Miguel Aparicio Deported

Miguel Aparicio, 37, deported on Monday, despite ICE director John Morton's empty "changes" to ICE deportation policiesLast week United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho John Morton announced a series of  "improvements" meant to keep ICE's focus on deporting aliens with serious ... More >>

ICE Honcho John Morton Blasted by Critics of Secure Communities

Critics think ICE director Morton's policy reforms are a feel-good PR stunt.Pro-immigrant lawyers and activists are slamming the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for recently announced policy "changes" that they say will do nothing to improve the way illegal immigrants are b ... More >>

Cloaked Brutality: The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Barack Obama's $600 Million Border Boondoggle

Obama: $600 million-tough on landscapers and nanniesSo President Barack Obama, who still talks a good game about "comprehensive immigration reform," has now signed a supplemental border security package worth $600 million to add 1,000 Border Patrol agents, as well as hundreds of new officers for Imm ... More >>

ICE on Track to Remove Fewer Illegal Immigrants From Arizona This Year; Past Two Years Set Records for Removals

Image: ICE​ The Phoenix office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to remove fewer illegal immigrants from Arizona in 2010, following what it says are two record-setting years for removals. As of July 19, the agency says it has removed 55,699 peop ... More >>

Harold Hurtt, Former Phoenix Police Chief, Picked as ICE Community Liaison; Opposes "Field" Questioning of Immigrants by Cops

​ Harold Hurtt, a former chief of the Phoenix police department, has been selected as a national community liaison for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE hired him as the new director for its Office of State and Local Coordination in Washington D.C. ... More >>

Napolitano Threatens to Not Accept Immigrants Busted Under Arizona Law; Follows ICE Chief's Statement

​Janet Napolitano reminded Arizona on Friday that the feds have the discretion not to accept immigrants busted under the state's new law. The statement by the Homeland Security Secretary seems intended to prepare Americans for a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau policy that c ... More >>

Rick Romley Checks Sheriff Joe's Power, the MCSO's Paul Chagolla Gets His Back Up, and U.S. Marshal David Gonzales Scores

Barack Obama's Quota on Non-Criminal Aliens: 400,000 Per Year, Get Them Where You Can

Gilman's latest on Obama's hypocrisyYou might as well put a bounty on their heads. The undocumented, I mean. Though Barack Obama came to power dismissing as ludicrous the idea that we can "deport 'em all," ICE's Office of Detention and Removal Operations continues to demand just that with a quo ... More >>

No Room for Arpaio at the Wells Fargo Inn; and a Hispanic Homemaker Bears Witness Against ICE and the MCSO

Joe Arpaio and ICE's Joint Victim: Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez, and Why ICE Should Not Be Partnering with MCSO's Jails

A pack of MCSO detention officers -- some of them 287(g)-trained -- walk Garcia-Martinez into a room to get her fingerprint on an ICE document.I recently watched with great skepticism and annoyance ICE honcho John Morton's videotaped remarks to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. There, on ... More >>

E.J. Montini Earns His Pizza By Kissing Up to Joe Arpaio, Yet Again

courtesy of photosbyjosemunoz.orgMontini argues these and the rest of the 10,000-plus anti-Joe protesters should just zip itAccording to the Rep's E.J. Montini, if you oppose Sheriff Joe Arpaio and you lose at the polls, you should just keep your gob shut.Wow, talk about a mouthpiece for the little ... More >>

ICE Agents in Phoenix Seize More Than $8K Worth of Bogus NFL Jerseys and Ed Hardy Shirts as Part of "Operation Holiday Hoax"

​Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Phoenix and Tucson rounded up nearly $800,000 worth of bootleg clothing last week, including more than $8,000 worth of phony football jerseys, as part of a national campaign called "Operation Holiday Hoax."Two weeks before Christmas? Talk about ... More >>

An MCSO Officer Craves an Alleged Terrorist’s John Hancock, Plus Religious Insanity at Phoenix Symphony Hall

Joe Arpaio Can Stop You If "You Look Like You Just Came from Mexico," and KTAR Forgets Who Used to Be Guv

God's gift to bloggers: Arpayaso! (FYI, payaso means "clown" in Spanish) Here's the latest walnut of wisdom from Maricopa County's tin-pot tyrant of a sheriff, courtesy of CBS 5/KPHO. It pretty much falls in line with many of the dumb as dirt statements Arpaio's made on Glenn Beck and elsewher ... More >>

October 19 In Blogs: Arpaio, Dave Longstreth, Mamma Mia, and Don Stapley

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio's Racist Rampage, and ICE Honcho John Morton's Hypocrisy Up on the Sun: Internati ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Scores 287(g) Jails Agreement in ICE Announcement, ICE Head Says Arpaio Has No Federal Authority to Continue Sweeps

Arpaio remains ICE's "partner," despite all his misdeedsThe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency finally made its official announcement today regarding signatories to its controversial 287(g) program, and there were no surprises. Of the 55 new agreements approved by ICE, the Maricopa ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Sweep Begins in Surprise, According to ABC15

ABC15 is reporting that the MCSO will be conducting its latest Hispanic-hunting sweep in Surprise today. Apparently, Joe will be holding a press conference at 5 p.m. at his command post at the sheriff's substation at Dysart and Bell Roads. The operation begins at noon, with the usual 200 d ... More >>

New York Times Blasts Joe Arpaio, Urges Obama Administration to End 287(g)

Say what you will about our Yankee brethren, the editorial writers at the New York Times have consistently seen the immigration situation in Maricopa County through an unfiltered lens. I think this is because the particular unsigned, editorial writer of all of the opinion pieces having to do w ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's 287(g) Stalled: Board of Supervisors Says It'll Sign After Feds Sign

courtesy of Dennis Gilman/HumanLeague002 Supervisor Don Stapley, who backed Wilcox's move to table the sheriff's new MOA today The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors passed the buck back to the feds on Sheriff Joe's new 287(g) jails agreement this morning, authorizing Supes Chair Max Wilson ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Apparently in Violation of ICE Agreement; New MOA Still Unsigned by ICE, Goes Before Supes Wednesday

Would you buy a used car from this guy, or a played out Memorandum of Agreement? By kvetching to the Arizona Republic and KTAR 92.3 FM's Jay Lawrence over the weekend about his brand-spanking new, 287(g) jails contract with ICE, has Arpaio thereby violated his agreements with ICE, bo ... More >>

Terminate All Joe Arpaio's 287(g) Power, Demands ACLU

Do the lefties have Joe on the ropes, or is he playing rope-a-dope? Ramping up the pressure on ICE, the Obama administration and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the American Civil Liberties Union has just issued a press release demanding that Arpaio be stripped of all of his 287(g) authority, includi ... More >>

"Border Czar" Alan Bersin Meets with State AG, Calls Arizona "Most Lawless Corridor" on Border

So-called "Border Czar" Alan Bersin and other Homeland Security officials met with state Attorney General Terry Goddard today to discuss how to get different agencies working better together. During the meeting, Bersin (pictured above) reportedly called Arizona, "the most lawless corridor on the S ... More >>

Meet the New Boss, Same As the Old Boss

The nation's largest newspaper chain buys the state's biggest paper -- but will anyone even notice the difference?

Thomson Grabs Cox

Tribune Newspapers employees hope conditions won't get worse under new owner.