Law Enforcement and Political Activism
It's good to have heroes. People whom you can look up to and pattern yourself after as you move through life. It's fairly obvious that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has a hero in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and possibly Rush Limbaugh.
In the latest episode of "Babeu on Immigration" we find the Pinal county Sheriff bemoaning what he calls "Roadside amnesty"
The Pinal County Sheriff had this to say to local news outlets today.
"Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices upholding the main portion of Arizona's SB1070 law, President Obama and Janet Napolitano, with a wave of their hands, have made what was illegal one day, legal the next. They can't pass their dream act, so they change enforcement policies, which undermines the rule of law,"
He goes on to cite an alleged incident involving a 17 year old stopped for exceeding the speed limit by 50MPH. Apparently the teen had no driver's license or other identification because he was an undocumented immigrant.
The Sheriff contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but found no interest in the teen since he had been in the country for most of his life. ICE does not consider this type of "illegal immigrant" a priority focusing instead on recent and repeat border crossers, those over 30 years of age and felony offenders.
Babeu holds President Obama and DHS Head Napolitano to blame for having to release the young offender to his mother's custody with a citation instead of turning him over to ICE for deportation.
Babeu cites the revoking of the 287G agreements between DHS and local law enforcement as the root cause.
The 287G agreements allowed local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law and hold offenders in custody. With the SB1070 supreme court decision, DHS terminated the agreements which in Babeu's view allows "illegal immigrants" like the aforementioned teen to go free.
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