In Joe Arpaio’s press conference last week, and since then on several news shows, the sheriff has insisted there is a law in the federal code that allows him to continue his anti-immigrant sweeps without his 287(g) field authority. This is the power stripped from him recently by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,…
Glenn Beck has some fun at Arpaio’s expense on Beck’s Fox TV show I normally loathe Glenn Beck and his smarmy posturings, but I may have to reconsider that attitude after watching Beck mercilessly mess with our geriatric top gendarme on his Friday show. At points, Beck openly makes fun…
GQ magazine just published a damning portrait of Sheriff Joe by writer Alexander Provan titled “The Vigilante,” and it couldn’t come at better time. I know from experience that way too many reporters who come through town get snowed by our irascible, bulbous-nosed sheriff. They find him colorful and often…
Embedded video from CNN VideoSheriff Joe’s just announced the when, if not the where, of his next anti-Hispanic dragnet in Maricopa County, despite the limitations of his new Memorandum of Agreement with the feds. You know, the one he’s already in violation of. The one that’s so far signed only…
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 to sign the document once Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho John Morton autographs it. Currently, only Arpaio and a deputy County Attorney have signed the…
Looks like the journos at today’s Joe Arpaio presser practically had to jump out of the way of the spittle flying forth from the sheriff’s kisser. As I suspected it would be, the whole show was an excuse for a tirade on the part of our spoiled lawman, a fit thrown by a…
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, including that in the jails. In some ways, this is no surprise, as the ACLU is…
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, both old and new? In Section XVIII, paragraph two of the freshly minted Memorandum of Agreement, the recently released document, signed by Arpaio…
If any pro-immigrant activists or lawyers out there labor under the illusion that ICE’s denial of street 287(g) authority to Sheriff Joe Arpaio will put a crimp in his office’s persecution of the undocumented in Maricopa County, they should’ve been listening to KTAR 92.3 FM’s Jay Lawrence show this Sunday evening. For about 20…
Sources are telling me tonight that Joe Arpaio will soon announce that he has signed a new jails agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, one that will continue to allow ICE to partner with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in identifying and removing so-called criminal aliens from MCSO custody. The agreement — supposedly under…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political stock isn’t exactly at an all-time high here in Maricopa County, what with ongoing probes by the U.S. Department of Justice — and reportedly the F.B.I. as well –into his department, a big racial profiling lawsuit being pursued against him in federal court, and the backlash from local political…
Woody Harrelson’s character Charlie Frost from the Roland Emmerich flick 2012 explains the basics of the Mayan prophecy One thing I learned recently by chatting with Dennis McClung, creator of the 2012 survivalist Web site 2012supplies.com and sponsor of the upcoming 2012 Survival Conference in Scottsdale on October 17: The apocalypse can be good…
What’s going on with Tent City? Outlaw Fleetwood aims to tell ya… MC Outlaw Fleetwood may not be getting any awards for lipsyncing prowess in this particular video. Keep in mind, however, that all of this footage of Fleetwood mouthing the words to his anti-Arpaio song “Tent City” was shot in a few…
In a letter to Barack Obama dated Monday, September 28, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called on the President to terminate the 287(g) program, and cease all of the so-called Memorandums of Understanding authorizing local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law. The letter — which is signed by Chairwoman Nydia…
For bloggers, Trent Franks is the gift that keeps on giving… Obama-must-die-preacher Steven Anderson of Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church and Congressman Trent Franks, unofficial Robert Mitchum lookalike, should really get together at a pizza buffet one of these days for lunch. They have so much in common. Here’s what their…
From Dave Weigel of The Washington Independent: Watch Franks touch his tonsils with his big toe for the camera while kinda-sorta disavowing birtherism… Allow me to be the first to call on Congressman Trent Franks of Arizona to prove his U.S. citizenship — and citizenship in the human race — by presenting…
Naui’s footage from Saturday’s neo-Nazi demo in Riverside, CA shows that even 12 NSM members can mean trouble, if the cops aren’t on their game. About a dozen neo-Nazis from the National Socialist Movement got run out of Riverside,CA on the proverbial hot rail on Saturday. The swastika-lickers were protesting illegal…
These days, ACORN is what Commies were to Joe McCarthy and that bunch back in the dark old ’50s: a useful tool for painting one’s opponents as un-American. No matter how disheveled, no matter how scoundrel-like, McCarthy-ites (and “Tail Gunner Joe” himself) could always call someone a pinko, a Communist…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC footage of NSMers in St. Louis: A preview of November 7? National Socialist Movement Commander Jeff Schoep wants to put 200 to 300 neo-Nazis on the lawn of the Arizona state Capitol for an NSM-sponsored, anti-immigration “America…
Randall Holmes in character as “Richard Mellon Scapegoat”Arizona Democratic Party activist Randall Holmes has a wit drier than a Durant’s martini. Of all the Billionaires for Wealthcare out there lampooning the hate-Obama wackjob Tea Baggers, his Richard Mellon Scapegoat character is my favorite. Mainly for quips like this: “We’re not for Social…
Charles Ryan may have pulled the plug on Macia Powell too soon. He may have overseen an ADC staff that denied her water for hours in a shadeless wire cage, a staff that allowed the severely mentally ill Powell to defecate on herself in captivity, that allowed her to perish…
Less than a month after the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Arizona Department of Corrections inmate Marcia Powell’s May 20 human cage death an “accident,” ADC honcho Charles Ryan has fired three employees, forced the resignations of two others, and disciplined 11 more. This according to an ADC news release…
