i love Sheriff Joe

[Maggot]

This country is so full of politicaly correct assholes it almost looks foreign when someone does what should be done.

[Duchess]

This country is so full of politicaly correct assholes

It's really gotten out of hand. I've recently been seeing people refer to the Washington Redskins as the Washington R words and it makes my head want to spin.

[HairOfTheDog]

This country is so full of politicaly correct assholes

It's really gotten out of hand. I've recently been seeing people refer to the Washington Redskins as the Washington R words and it makes my head want to spin.

It really has hit absurd heights.

When the absurdity is only in relation to something that doesn't really affect people's lives or livelihoods, it just makes me laugh.

When it actually gets taken to a level of trying to apply what is perceived to be politically correct today to history (thereby hindering the accurate account of what really happened), or when it dilutes the truth in decision making that impacts society, sometimes it makes me wanna cry out, "what the hell are you sniffing!?".

Anyway, I have no problem with what Sheriff Joe is doing here either.

[Duchess]

I think Sheriff Joe applies good, old fashion common sense. I appreciate his approach and I don't understand the mind set of anyone who could possibly disagree, it's like they just don't get it.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Sheriff Joe is one of the very small number of "Celebrities" in the world that I would bother to shake his hand, he is a good man.

[Cynical Ninja]

I think prisoners should be fed bread and water all the time not just as a punishment.

I don't give a fuck about the palates of criminals.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm glad Sheriff Joe's case was thrown out.

I like that he's tough on crime and he's an interesting character. But, his correlations between increased crime/LE burden and deportation relief were bogus, in my opinion.


Snip:
A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit on Friday from Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio over President Barack Obama's deportation relief, agreeing with a lower court that the hardline sheriff had no standing in this case to sue over undocumented immigrant policy.

The three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel -- two appointed by Obama and one by then-President George W. Bush -- unanimously upheld a lower court's decision to dismiss the case.

The point of the proceeding was simply to establish whether the Maricopa County sheriff could even bring his lawsuit, not to decide the issues he raised. Arpaio argued that Obama's policies suspending deportation for certain undocumented immigrants cause him and his county "harm" by driving up the number of unauthorized immigrants and thereby increasing crime, leading to more people in the local jail. He and his lawyer, Larry Klayman, claimed that this had already happened after the president began the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which Arpaio was seeking to stop along with a newer deportation reprieve program for parents.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims that President Obama's deportation policies could drive up his county's jail population.

The judges weren't convinced. Writing for the court, Judge Nina Pillard held that Arpaio had "failed to allege an injury that is both fairly traceable to the deferred action policies and redressable by enjoining them." She called his claim that deferred deportations would lead to more crime in Maricopa County "unduly speculative."

"Projected increases he anticipates in the county's policing burden and jail population rest on chains of supposition and contradict acknowledged realities," Pillard wrote.

Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sher...ostpopular

[BlueTiki]

OK, help me out . . .

Pillard stated that having illegals does NOT increase crime or impose additional burdens on policing and jails. In fact, she says, it contradicts established (acknowledged) realities.

As Maricopa County is NOT a Sanctuary County, hasn't she, in reality, contradicted the rationale for their existence?

Thanks, Judge!

You've just given the opponents a legal opinion, as ammunition, to challenge the continuation of Sanctuary Cities.