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Sheriff Joe Apairo of Maricopa County has been very innovative in providing incarceration at savings to the taxpayer and providing deterrent, in that the inmates want to stay out of jail and not come back!
Joe eliminated smoking in the jail, let the prisoneers sleep in un-air conditioned tents, gave the inmates pink t-shirts that weren’t fashion statements (so fewer got ripped off) and stopped letting inmates watch dirty movies on the taxpayer dime. Work details build character!

Three cheers for Sheriff Joe!

Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!

Green bologna sandwiches.

Sheriff Joe is my Sheriff since I live in Maricopa Country.  We recently passed an extremely severe employer sanction law regarding illegal immigrants.  He is deporting their asses and sending the Feds the bill for it when he catches them.  No catch and release for him.

The guy is awesome.  A bit of a narcisist, but he is doing things right.

That’s a very good idea--and I like Anna’s recommendation as well. 

Justin, is he deporting the illegals, or their employers?  (I’m fine with either) :^)

Workers.  And it is causing Illegals to flee from Arizona since their jobs are about to dry up.  The Mexicans are all up in arms:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1212arpaio-ONL.html

A Mexican citizen who is legally in the United States has filed the first lawsuit challenging Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s aggressive immigration-enforcement efforts, saying that he was unlawfully detained and that the Sheriff’s Office is engaged in illegal racial-profiling…

But it hinges on what happened to the identified plaintiff, Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres, when he was in a vehicle driven by a White man who was stopped by deputies on Sept. 26 in Cave Creek.

The lawsuit says the deputy told the driver he was being stopped for speeding but did not issue a citation.

Ortega, a retired teacher, then was asked to produce identification.

Ortega said he legally entered the United States on Sept. 6 and produced a U.S. visa, his Mexican federal voter-registration card and a copy of a permit from the Department of Homeland Security with a stamp showing his admission to the United States was valid through Nov. 1.

The lawsuit claims Ortega was detained for about eight hours before an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent verified his documents and set him free.

“To me, it appears that there’s racial-profiling going on,” Moffa said. “That’s what we want to stop. It is not enough to stop somebody because they look Hispanic or they don’t speak English. People have rights.”

But sheriff’s Capt. Paul Chagolla said Ortega was “detained and transported appropriately” after he made statements about seeking employment when he was in the country with a visitor’s visa that didn’t allow him to work.

Mexican national who isn’t allowed to work based on his Visa says he is here looking for work.  Guy is detained to verify immigration status.  And that is racial profiling…