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1. mttopforge:

This man has conviction, speaks his mind and backs his views with action. A breath of fresh air in a country that needs more people of clear and honorable conviction. Not a lot of hot air like you are spewing. A high and mighty key board jockey like yourself could learn a few things from a guy like this. You are a hater of people like sherrif joe who uphold the law. Bet you break laws regularly. Do you smoke marijuana or exceed the speed limit?
With people like you that share a disdain for patriotic law enforcement so previlent it is no wonder there is so many law breakers sneeking illeagaly across our borders.
You are an enabler.
Pretty crummy attitude there buddy. You put your life on the line in war and your job like sherrif joe?

I don’t see any law abiding folks being deported.
You have a problem with this?
Maybe you should move to Fidels paradise. You need perspective really badly.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:26 am 2. Ed Wallis:

I consider this article to be nothing more than an ode to Leftist racism.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:33 am 3. ehunter:

Once again Navarette..Why does a need for workers in specific fields..translate into mass immigration? If we need adult males to pick apples in Yakima Valley Washington state for a season,
why does this translate into his extended family, mother, grandparents, 5 cousins, 2 wives and 6 kids moving into the USA permanently? Hmmm?

Nov 11, 2009 - 4:09 am 4. Morton Doodslag:

Smut. Illegal alien porn. Anti-American anti-white bigotry spewing from the mouth of a race obsessed victim pimp.

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:05 am 5. Paul -Indiana:

Well, Ruben, once again wrote his usual article.

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:05 am 6. Booker T. Gain:

The Arizona sheriff sees himself as a one-man task force charged with stopping an invasion of dishwashers, landscapers, and nannies, many of whom work for the same folks who voted for him.

Actually he sees himself as someone trying to enforce the law. His problem is that the American people aren’t sufficiently interested in enforcing the law. For example, the current POTUS refers to illegal aliens as undocumented workers and he gets a pass.

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:30 am 7. boca condo king:

The immigration (illegal that is) issue is one that could be run for a 100Yard touch down by the right political group.

Keep the focus on the native born and legal immigrants who are hurt by illegals.

Shame the rich couple who hires an illegal immigrant to take care of their kids as opposed to woman down the street who has to rely on welfare.

Point out that if wages for certain jobs had remained the same, poor people would have the opportunity to work for $15.00 per hour at a dirty job. Instead an illegal is exploited in the same job for less then half.

Imagine if Sec of State Hilary Clinton could pass out temporary ag. work visas to countries that were nice to us.

Imagine if a high school dropout could still make $12.00 an hour washing dishes.

We have allowed the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:49 am 8. Stevemmn:

As a person who lives in Arizona I am very grateful that Joe Arpaio is doing the job that the federal government refuses to do. He is fully within his jurisdiction to enforce the law while J. No and the feds ignore it.

And tent city was a wonderful idea by Sheriff Joe. If our troops can live in tents in the desert then jail inmates can do it too. Guess what, jail isn’t supposed to be a country club. And the only reason why the underwear is pink is because the inmates would steal it otherwise.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:05 am 9. Dave Surls:

“The Arizona sheriff sees himself as a one-man task force charged with stopping an invasion of dishwashers, landscapers, and nannies…”

My guess would be that the sheriff is probably a little more worried about stopping the invasion of Mexican drug dealers, rapists, thieves, forgers and murderers than he is about stopping an invasion of dishwashers.

Of course, there is no such thing as a Mexican drug dealer in Navarette’s little propaganda piece, only mean old county sheriffs hassling poor little Mexican dishwashers.

Spare me.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:12 am 10. Bohemond:

How is it that PJM continues to run Ruben’s one-man-band routine huckstering for illegal immigration? Naturally, to those like Navarrette who think that things like borders, visas and green cards are silly (and raaaaycist) technicalities, Sheriff Joe is Public Enermy No. 1. Anyone who might actually enforce the law is to be treated as the new Eichmann. And so now, of course, the pro-illegals camp, with Ruben as head cheerleeder, is wildly enthusiastic that the Obama regime is acting to make Arpaio just as ineffective as the clip-winged Border Patrol.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:15 am 11. Tolbert:

From Saul Alinsky’s mouth to Rueben’s ear.

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame”

Rueben will stop at nothing to advance his pro reconquista agenda.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:18 am 12. Graham:

Hooray for Sheriff Joe, if only we had 1,000 more like him!

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:18 am 13. bubblehead:

Ruben, that dog won’t hunt, and you know it!

Your straw-man argument is in insufficient fig leaf that does not cover your un-American beliefs! You know fully that what you REALLY are about is unfettered access to OUR country by your countrymen (even if you were born here, your heart and sentiments are there!)

America has the right as a soverign nation to control her borders, to decide who gets in and who doesn’t and to establish whatever prerequisites she sees fit for applicants to satisfy before being granted entry. We already have laws that define legal and illegal entry. If someone needs laborers, that is not justification for violating those laws!

I have appreciated some of your more common-sense articles in the past, but you have shown your true colors here!

If you are an American, SHAME ON YOU! If you are not native-born, why are you here with your beliefs? Are you acting as a voluntary agent of a foriegn government, espousing the policies of that government at the expense of American soveriegnty?

What is your REAL agenda?!

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:22 am 14. Rick Greenville,SC:

Once again, the pro-illegal Rube shills for the oblammo crew. . . .This article belongs on huffnpuff or the dullycoosie, not here. . .

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:22 am 15. BrianH:

Now he sees himself as a one-man task force charged with stopping an invasion of dishwashers, landscapers, and nannies, many of whom work for the same folks who voted for him.

Unbelievable. This one sentence reveals the source of your anger at Joe Arpaio.

The guy may be an attention hound, and he may have used the “reasonable suspicion” standard instead of the “probable cause” standard to make immigration arrests (because the federal government wanted local law enforcement to do so for a time).

But none of this is really what bothers you. It’s because he insists on enforcing laws which most law enforcement agents find easier to pretend don’t exist. Your ad hominem attacks against the man are beside the point, and your nonsense about him stretching his authority is a dishonest smokescreen.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:51 am 16. mttopforge:

Breaking the law is theonly issue not sherrif joes phylosophy. Your diatribe will never divert my eyes from what matters most. Liberty!
You don’t like the laws in the US of A go back to your country. You can wine all you want there. If this country and the law is so repugnent to you what are you still doing here?
Probably feeding out of the public trough without even the dignity of contributing anything of value before you steal. You can’t even find one good thing to say about my country and protectors of the law, and you want to be understood as a valid journalist using my right of freedom of the press as camoflage?
I’m glad you wrote this, it reveals in true fashion the agenda of the haters of Liberty.
Re-enforces my pledge to defend my country from all enemies. Especially domestic ones like you.

Nov 11, 2009 - 7:15 am 17. JED:

Both the donkey and elephant party have traded a nation under the rule of law for the potential voters sifting through the borders. Sheriff Joe is the line in the sand between the chaos of expedient compassion and equal justice.
“Sanchez: But the U.S. Border Patrol is on the border. You are nowhere near the border.”
That argument says that only at the border should the problem be contained. The coyotes do not stop there.

Nov 11, 2009 - 7:22 am 18. aclay1:

Mr. Navarrette has just written a great article on why we need to minimize the influence of the federal government and increase states’ rights. Too bad that wasn’t his intention.

BTW, I love his constant refrain that people who in some way benefit from illegal immigration shouldn’t be against it. Just like anti-tax libertarians should never use a government service or greenies should never use energy, right?

Nov 11, 2009 - 7:45 am 19. Jim Baker:

Navaratte,
While you wasn’t looking, the United States has accumulated a host of problems completely unrelated to the need to pander to your favorite victim group. Boobily will be proud of your steadfast dedication to victim politics, but I couldn’t care less.

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:11 am 20. Flying Monkey:

Why waste space posting articles by leftists? As for the “gotcha” CNN interview, I guess Ruben doesn’t want to acknowledge that the border is now somewhere North of Colorado. Sheriff Joe is doing his small part to return it to it’s legal boundary.

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:13 am 21. GregGS:

Obviously American immigrants don’t understand the problem along with the current Fed administration. We ” American society” want all immigrants to sign the guest book before
entering this great Nation. We are now officially tired of of IIs’ “Immigrant Ingrates”. It’s time
for these nations to take control of their economy’s and education systems by becoming more
like the U.S., so their people don’t run away, there’s a tipping point that American will hit, all the worlds people can’t come to the U.S. for freedom and economic opportunity, it’s that simple.

Of course the current administration may make this place look like some 3rd rate socialist
latrine, and then where do people go for their freedoms that will be so accommodating?

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:13 am 22. Now and Then:

12. Graham:
“Hooray for Sheriff Joe, if only we had 1,000 more like him!”

We do . . .
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2009/11/jt_readys_star_turn_and_the_pl.php

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:17 am 23. Terry:

As a long time resident of the valley of the sun, (Phoenix) the amount of crime committed by illegals is staggering. We constantly flirt with the number one spot for kidnapping capitol of the world, have one of the highest car theft ratios in the country, and have twelve hour waits in the emergency room while illegals get treated. I’m not racist or opposed to guest worker programs, so take that off the table now. If one looks at INS arrest tables, one finds that included with Mexicans coming across, there is a large contingent of middle-Easterns. Close the door now.

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:58 am 24. WestWright:

More of Rubin’s racism against white US Citizens. Why is this fool not renounced for the bigoted lawlwssness he spews? Nice vid Now and Then, so you are still doing the idiot troll thing and calling anyone against the Illegal Invasion a Racist. FU!

Nov 11, 2009 - 9:24 am 25. 24AheadDotCom:

It’s obviously to everyone except Navarrette why JanetN wants to restrict his authority: they’ve been feuding for a while and she – like her boss – ultimately has little use for our imm. laws. She and her boss are corrupt, turning a blind eye to illegal activity because it’s in their political interest. Why isn’t Navarrette pointing that out and holding them accountable?

And, why isn’t Navarrette pointing out that another of Arpaio’s foes is directly collaborating with a certain foreign government?

http://24ahead.com/s/american-civil-liberties-union

Nov 11, 2009 - 10:04 am 26. Phoenix48:

Vintage Ruben…’I’ve known him since I worked for the Arizona Republic in the late 1990s…’

Now Ruben, why did you ever leave Vahalla? What ever possed you, with you renowned ‘wise Latina’ vision concerning all things Immigration to migrate to San Diego?

So you kicked Joe and Maricopa co to the curb for the sunny progress of the great Navial marina west coast? Hows that workin for ya Ruben?

I mean lets forget that the good Sheriff originally RETIRED from public service to Sun City when he first came here. Or that Cali was already supposidly so far advanced on the Latino immigration thing after kicking Gov Wilson to the curb long before you migrated there. We’ll leave that aside.

While this sheriff – who SINGLE HANDEDLY HELPED ELECT JANET NAPOLITANO BY LESS THAN 5% OF THE POPULAR VOTE (no way she’d beaten the favored Rep Matt Salmon without Joe) the most popular Pol (including the inflated reported pecentage of Janet when in office) in this state during his tenure – even though he is now entering his mid-seventies – ….

Politically – the guy is a mountain. But in two minutes or so CNN’s Rick Sanchez – the most partisan latino in TV News – along with his side kick Ruben – have given the mattadores thrust to this ‘bigoted BULL’ (AS IN Bull Conner). They got the Big Prize! They bagged Godzilla? Are you kidding?

What a hoot! As far as political farce this ranks along side the Telemundo street theater dramatized by some of the local activists here in Phoenix hamming for the camera for years. (like laying prostrate at protests begging Joe to ‘let my people go.’)

The East Valley Tribune (which went out of biz last week) won a PULITZER PRIZE claiming mainly that Joe racially profiles – all the while pushing the innendo that Joe likewise ranks up there with the Southern Sheriff Bull Conner and that racists open use of violence during the marches in Alabama – when fire hoses and dogs viciously attacked peaceful marchers – including women and children. As in – compare Joe’s long list of ‘law suits’ both lost and won.

Yet here is Joe. Stubbornly still the most popular ELECTED political figure (yes more so than either Janet on the Left or McCain on the right) in Arizona.

We shall see Ruben if indeed you bagged the big one on some minor CNN interview that was probably viewed by countless ‘thousands’ of views not either you or Ricks 1st, 2nd or 5th cousins. We shall see.

How many times do you think a jounalistic adversary has laid the same claim Ruben? And yet, here is Joe. Always ready for the interview, eatting it up.

One thing is certain. Phoenix has been hit hard by the recession. But you know what…since Joe did all his sweeps..and with the recession…you don’t see ANY gatherings at the local LOWES, as in day laborers.

After all the immigration referendums passed (from ‘04-’07)- almost all with over 60%-70% approvial – alot has changed for the better in Maricopa co and Arizona at large. Some reports say the illegal population is down 20-30%. Lots are rumored to have bolted to Cali – where even if there is more work – there’s lots better state support.

Where is San Diego and California – hows that working for ya all? Is it all just conservative propaganda? The tax revolts? The exodus of Business? Hows that working for ya?

After a generation of un-checked illegal immigration Cali is on the brink of collapse. But Arizona is poised to recover Ruben. And it didn’t even take a SINGLE PROSCECUTION OF ONE BUSINESS THAT HIRED ILLEGALS.

The sweeps were that effective. Having the added bonus of sending the ACLU and folks like you and Sanchez into tissy fits on a regular basis. What could be finer?

But of course we would always welcome you back, like so many other successful californians who now make Chandler, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley their new home. Seems to be working for them too Ruben.

They vacation at the Beach in San Diego. They just don’t see any reason to pay for the agonizing destruction of a state they once so loved.

Nov 11, 2009 - 10:18 am 27. don:

Gee, the last time I looked Arizona shares a state border with Mexico. Once the “alleged convict” has finished serving his or her time, there is nothing prohibiting releasing the confirmed ” illegal alien” from custody at the border for a one way walk to the that “aliens” country of origin. See ya! However, when abortion is judged to be a required universal health care insurance mandate for everyone, including illegal aliens, I’m looking forward to my state subsidized Colt M-16 assault rifle, a mandate that liberals will have to pay for too. I love and believe in equal fundamental reproductive rights for everyone.

Nov 11, 2009 - 10:58 am 28. kochevnik:

Not all Mexican women want to have “anchor babies” in the Unites States. The real Mexican women of Tecalpulco want their migrant men to come back home and take care of the babies they left behind. “Close the U.S. borders!” they say. “Send our men back home!”

Tecalpulco is a small village in Guerrero, Mexico, on Mexico’s southernmost border. It is just north of the city of Campuzano. Tecalpulco is famous for hand-made craft and jewelry. There is an internationally known artisans establishment there called ArtCamp. Vacationers know the place. The artisans run a coop, and they’re subject to the pressures of global market manipulation.

But their men don’t care. They’ve all moved norte, to join the mass trespassing movement in America.

And the women of southern Mexico are tired of this nonsense. They have expressed their protest to BadEagle.com, where a number of pieces on Mexican issues have been posted in recent weeks. BadEagle.com has received direct mail from the artisanas campesinas, the women who make the famous jewelry.

I’ve gotten permission to post this correspondence. The women write from the heart in imperfect English, as one might expect.

Here is the first, from May 4, 2006:

When our men went to the United States they were young and adventurous; They have had their adventure, now we want them to come home to us and to their families and to their home country. Close the border so that the ones who are here do not leave. We have work now and the men can help us to sand-down and polish the jewelry.

Our group is of women from the village of Tecalpulco. The tradition of our village is handcrafted fashion jewelry. Since the men have left, we women have organized a good business of fashion jewelry production in cottage industry. The men can help us, they don’t have any excuse to stay [in America].

Thank you very much from the hearts of the women of Artesanas Campesinas.

Rosalinda Mejia Baron
Eva Albavera Viveros, Contact Person
ealbavera@yahoo.com.mx
Telefonos:
001 762 62 73481
001 762 62 22758

So, the women of southern Mexico, far south, have lost their migrant men to the craze of invading America. Their husbands, the fathers of their children, have abandoned them for some grand “revolutionary” fling up north.

Here’s more, from May 9:

We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for acknowledging us as persons, we are so grateful that you recognize us for who we are, village women of Mexico.

We, the women in Mexico, are living under very depressed conditions for a long time. Most of the man in the villages have gone to the United States to work there and have left the women here with the children. At the beginning they were sending money but that was every 6 months or every year, and they weren’t always sending us enough to cover our basic needs. Frequently, these men drop out of our sight all-together.

We are campesinas, we have our cornfields and do work them, but we have learned that in modern times we can’t live off of them. We have to buy cooking gas, daily food, shoes for the children, school materials, etc. Now that the kids went into school again we barely got enough money to buy their uniforms and we are now working hard to pay the school every month and saving money to buy the rest of the materials that they need. It is impossible to live like this, yet we have no choice except to survive, even though we are inside a pattern where everything is costly.

We never asked anything from you, still we want to ask you to close the Mexico border to illegal migration because our men go north to get money and they remain up there sometimes with another woman and we don’t like it; we want our men to be deported since they are breaking the laws. Please isn’t there a way to have these men deported back to their homes and families in Mexico? That would be the best to happen for us! because we need their help in sanding and polishing the jewelry we have been producing.

Thank you, thank you so much in the name of the Rural Artisans Women of Taxco!

Sincerely
Tamara Hernandez Danel

This is as plain as it gets. Among the so-called migrant hordes of banditos are deadbeat dad, carelessly leaving behind their wives and children to fend for themselves. So, where’s the voice of international protest here?

Where are the feminists when you need them?

Nov 11, 2009 - 11:42 am 29. Moho:

However, when abortion is judged to be a required universal health care insurance mandate for everyone, including illegal aliens, I’m looking forward to my state subsidized Colt M-16 assault rifle, a mandate that liberals will have to pay for too. I love and believe in equal fundamental

The fact that this anguished logic makes sense to you, is a good reason to implement cognitive tests before registering voters.

Nov 11, 2009 - 11:59 am 30. Gary Ogletree:

Sheriff Joe earns his pay. The county voters seem to appreciate that.

Nov 11, 2009 - 12:00 pm 31. Moho:

If one looks at INS arrest tables, one finds that included with Mexicans coming across, there is a large contingent of middle-Easterns. Close the door now.

Like most Americans, once you note the doubled or tripled price of produce, car repair, cleaning services, construction and, of course, restaurant prices, you’ll be begging for them back, violence and terrorist threat be damned. Just imagine wheeling your fat face to Applebees and paying 20 dollars for a burger, because the owners are mandated to pay the dish washer a living wage! You’ll be crying for them illeeegals like a weened toddler crying for mama’s nipple.

Nov 11, 2009 - 12:02 pm 32. 24AheadDotCom:

#31: labor costs are only about 10% of the price of veggies, so the only way costs could “double” or “triple” would be if we were paying (legal) farmworkers $100/hour. And, by restricting the availability of cheap labor, we’d increase mechanization, meaning more higher-end work.

Growers have been saying this same thing for literally decades, and they’re always lying.

Nov 11, 2009 - 12:15 pm 33. Federale:

And Ruben Navarrette is a one man band for illegal aliens and loyal to Mexico not American. Navarrette is sort of a Mexican Major Nidal Hasan. How long before these grievance mongering aliens start killing more Americans?

Nov 11, 2009 - 12:57 pm 34. Sarah:

Moho, and you don’t think dishwashers deserve a living wage?

I think this is what some would call “doublethink”; we want the brown skinned underclass in here to do the work americans don’t want to do – and with the same breath call those opposed to this racism racists.

Also, I don’t think you realize the irony of your statement about ‘fat’ people going into applebees upset that the burgers are expensive because of the living wage. You’re saying that the system now doesn’t give one, and that’s fine by you.

Turn your brain on!

Nov 11, 2009 - 1:03 pm 35. Poor Citizen:

With all the General Rock Stars and Politician Rock Stars and all the Sports Rock Stars….

I fail to see the problem with a sheriff rock star. Hey, I did the cop thing many, many years ago and it aint like hollywood, trust me. Maybe its time a sheriff got some “air time”… besides, this guy seems like a hoot, and we could use a few hoots in our land today. Dont you agree?

Nov 11, 2009 - 1:15 pm 36. Bohemond:

Moho, if you really believed the puree that dribbles from your mouth, you would be agitating for the abolition of unions, which are far more of a problem when it comes to labor costs driving up consumer prices.

Not to mention the other million-and-one other ways liberals contrive to drive up prices for average citizens.

Nov 11, 2009 - 1:16 pm 37. Momiss:

Sheriff Joe is the last John Wayne as far as I am concerned. You could take a few lessons from him. God Bless America and those that love her.

Nov 11, 2009 - 1:24 pm 38. don:

Hey, yoho moho, if state paid abortions are a fundamental right, then state paid for m-16s and mandatory free civic shooting ranges is a civil right also. Colt and Smith and Wesson are just as entitled to state subsidized consumption of their products as is the health care industrial complex subsidies for Viagra. If Maria can get a free abortion then Jose can get a free Colt M-16 so his second amendment rights are not deprived. It’s only fair, after all.

Nov 11, 2009 - 2:05 pm 39. Senorita Bonita:

Most comments here were written by people who IMMIGRATED to my native state of Arizona.

Joe embraces Aryan nation groups and the neocon wingnutz (yep you immigrants to Arizona) still continue to embrace big ole Joe.

Que lastima!

Nov 11, 2009 - 2:33 pm 40. Exactly!:

So Pajamasmedia now has left wing immigrant sympathizers writing for it. I understand.

Arizona has been degraded by illegals. There are kidnappings and muders at a shocking rate in West Phoenix and around I-10. There is drug running everywhere. There are auto accidents caused by illegals killing innocent Americans. The illegals kill livestock, foul water and destroy the fauna of the desert. They cut fences, leave garbage, feces and diapers.

Why do the leftist like them? They are the perpetual underclass – providing landscaping services, housekeeping, babysitting, food servicing and other labor, cheaply. The limousine liberals would pass out if they actually had to clean their own houses, take care of their own children or mow their own yards.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:00 pm 41. 24AheadDotCom:

#39 is wrong; Joe doesn’t “embrace” such groups.

#39 does show something that few people try to take advantage of when arguing against national leaders. Namely, that it isn’t difficult to get them to say something vaguely (or completely) “reconquista”. You just need to coax it out of them in order to show how extremist they really are.

For instance, it wouldn’t be that difficult for someone to get this U.S. Rep. to say something that would make him look bad:

http://24ahead.com/s/raul-grijalva

Unfortunately, if you click the “bunny” link on that page, you’ll see people engaging in disreputable acts against him rather than engaging him in debate in order to show how extremist he is.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:18 pm 42. Dave Surls:

“Sheriff Joe vowed to press ahead anyway, using state laws against smuggling to continue to apprehend illegal immigrants. And, he said, if federal authorities wouldn’t take custody of his prisoners, he’d drive them to the U.S.-Mexico border himself.”

Good for him.

If the feds can’t or won’t enforce the law, then it’s up to the locals to do it.

Sounds like he’s got a real workable solution of what to do with people who are in the country illegally. Just give ‘em a ride home.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:24 pm 43. Concerned Citizen:

I only had to see this article was by Ruben and the title to know exactly what was in it — Ruben, you are too predictable.

The reason many people like what Sheriff Joe is doing is because no one else is enforcing the law and while many of the people here illegally are good people, they all broke the law getting here or they would be here legally.

If I went to Mexico without getting a visa from the government (to visit certain areas or stay longer than 30 days), I would get arrested, shaken down for money and sent home. I can’t buy property in Mexico or own a gun in Mexico because I’m not a citizen. I can’t vote in Mexico. I can’t get a job in Mexico without a permit. I’m OK with all of these things because Mexico isn’t my country and when I visit, I’m their guest and will act like a guest. Wanna bet if an American were working in a car wash in Mexico someone from the government would asking for their papers?

Why should any law enforcement officer in the U.S. be any different than his/her counterpart in Mexico? Aren’t police officers obligated to enforce the law?

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:27 pm 44. X:

@9. “My guess would be that the sheriff is probably a little more worried about stopping the invasion of Mexican drug dealers, rapists, thieves, forgers and murderers than he is about stopping an invasion of dishwashers.”

I HOPE actually you are right, because U.S.A. is the last place people seeking freedom can flee and take refugee. But many people here are just thinking to make a new Kristalnacht against immigrants. Don’t be fooled, one thing is the thief or the jihaddist who wants to destroy and other completely different is somebody who only wants to take refugee from the robberies going on all around the world. U.S.A. is still a country made great by immigrants too.

I also understand your worries about non integration by newcomers, but it has been always so, also in the previous centuries, but usually the next generation is better integrated here than the parents (for obvious reasons). I only point to the exception of muslims, because they are driven by an ideology which prevents them to integrate into American way of life. But that’s a philosophical problem to be solved focusing on the real problem: their ideology, not on “immigration”.

Let the people seeking for freedom come and live here.

Nov 11, 2009 - 3:58 pm 45. "progressivewatch":

If I’m elected president in 2012,one of things I will do on my first day in office is replace Janet Napolitano with Joe Arpaio.

Nov 11, 2009 - 4:06 pm 46. Jettboy:

Who is in charge of allowing this rube Ruben Navarrette Jr. to print such garbage at Pajamas Media? GET THIS FOOL OFF THIS SITE NOW! This isn’t Huffpoop where this thoughtless race-baiting traitorous garbage belongs. If there is some kind of petition I must sign for this action to be taken place, then sign me up. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is an American Hero, and one of the last public Patriots that exists in office.

Nov 11, 2009 - 4:20 pm 47. mttopforge:

No! Keep him on!! It is great to read this commies phylosophy. It is like Dunn, she came out from under her rock, we folks get to see the real agenda of the treasonous bastards. Not some koolaid diluted whitewash.
Hey, Sherrif Joe has it right. Make him the poster hero for States soveriegn rights to self determination. Free from Fed meddling. It is clear in the Constitution. The feds only have power to dictate and rule because we and the states have allowed it. Enough States tell the feds to take a hike and the fed can’t do a thing without establishing marshall law. They do that and the gloves come off, they know it. Put the states back in charge and the Feds are a toothless worn out old bear.
Sheriff Joe knows exactly what he his doing.
Maybe we should get him to run for POTUS.
I’ll vote for him for in a newyork minute. The traitors hate sarah Palin, they would go totally ballistic over President elect Joe Arpaio.

Go Joe Go!

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:04 pm 48. kochevnik:

40@Exactly!:
>So Pajamasmedia now has left wing immigrant
>sympathizers writing for it. I understand.

You partisan politics is simply to polarize your mind. An intellectual tazer, if you will. Meanwhile the Vatican, which discovered and rules America, will displace you with catholics loyal to engaging WW3. That war will enact the destruction of Israel, the subjugation of Islam, immolating more heretics, and the unification of all religion in catholocism.

Nov 11, 2009 - 5:08 pm 49. mttopforge:

The old axiom about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer is a beauty.
I was immediately angry to read comrade ruben’s BS. I think it is refreshing and delightfully rich when these traitors crawl out from their lairs and blink in the light of a good healthy dose of Liberty.
You can bet this worm is reading these comments. Warms my heart he has few comrades to whine away the day with.
I say bring it on.
And ruben, careful what you whish for.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:08 pm 50. Dave Surls:

‘Arpaio might just have cooked his goose with that television appearance. He acknowledged that he’s relying on the same search and seizure standard as the U.S. Border Patrol when stopping individuals on the street and trying to ascertain their legal status. The problem is that the Border Patrol has more latitude than local law enforcement officers. A federal immigration agent need only have “reasonable suspicion” that someone is in the country illegally to begin questioning that person; a local cop, on the other hand, needs “probable cause.”’

Not likely. The “reasonable suspicion” standard apples to state and local authorities whether you like it or not…and Obama’s feds have nothing to say about it.

Already decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in Terry v. Ohio many years ago that reasonable suspicion is sufficient not only to question someone, but even to apply a pat-down style search…but, you have fun dreaming that you’re going to stick it to Sheriff Joe on that basis.

Nov 11, 2009 - 6:57 pm 51. momof4:

Whether or not the coastal elites like Joe is beside the point. The people who actually live there do like him, and keep voting him in. I live in central texas and wish we had someone like him.

I would happily pay more for my tomatoes to not have illegals literally swarming like flies here. Interestingly enough, the people who hate the illegals the most aren’t “white supremacists”, it’s native-born hispanics. My husband’s family has been here since before texas was texas. They HATE illegals, because people assume that brown skin means illegal now, and they are treated poorly as a result. Illegals don’t integrate, they merely make their own mexican barrios wherever they go. The drive without insurance (or liscenses, frequently) mob the ER’s for every little sniffle and don’t pay, use their front yards like parking lots, work for cash under the table while taking public welfare, cram themselves 18-20 into a house and park $100k worth of pick-ups out front, and buy their groceries on food stamps then head home and watch their flatscreen tv’s. They demand that other’s cater to their lack of english rather than attempt to learn to speak it. It’s unreal. If I wanted to live in mexico, I’d move there. I want my country back!

Nov 11, 2009 - 7:58 pm 52. Phranc:

48. kochevnik:

You partisan politics is simply to polarize your mind. An intellectual tazer, if you will. Meanwhile the Vatican, which discovered and rules America, will displace you with catholics loyal to engaging WW3. That war will enact the destruction of Israel, the subjugation of Islam, immolating more heretics, and the unification of all religion in catholocism.
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The Vatican rules America? How exactly does it do that being a minority christian cult. You’d think if it ruled we’d have had more then one catholic POTUS. Why exactly does the catholic church who runs America keep catholics out of the white house? Why exactly would the catholic church allow for so many things against catholic teachings like abortion and contraception?

Nov 11, 2009 - 8:04 pm 53. Exactly!:

48. Mr. Kochevnik.

If your point is to state that the Vatican is supporting the illegals to flood the world and re-populate it with Catholics, it is an interesting point worthy of debate, However I think it might be more about money (more donors, you know) than religious doctrine. At least that is the impression a person with some intelligence would have after visiting the small villages in Mexico and observing the poor peasants giving their last few pesos to the golden churches.

If that is not your point, you appear to be confused and your post really has nothing to do with my previous one.

Nov 11, 2009 - 10:12 pm 54. yaakov watkins:

Navarette needs to take some meds.

couple of points where Navarette screws up:

“But that was before Arpaio, who is really more politician than peace officer” A sheriff is an elected official which makes him a politician.

Navarette only quotes the sheriff in order to make him look bad, he doesn’t quote the entire answer. That is unethical journalism.

What Navarette is really upset about is that the Sheriff is enforcing Arizona laws. Navarette doesn’t write stories about the damage the illegals do. He just writes lurid prose instead of coming up with facts.

Nov 11, 2009 - 10:34 pm 55. Shining City:

Ruben…is just not use to seeing a Man actually do his job…Sherrif Joe does a fantastic service for 1/10th the cost. Ruben’s article shines the light on himself and those like him who believe he should be paid for his title …hell why do your job it’s just too hard. Ruben just do the hard work your paid to do and quit whinning that real men are making you look bad.

Nov 12, 2009 - 1:23 am 56. mttopforge:

There is an analogie permeating this thread of comments.
It is similar to the stories of the early west when small town people anxiously waited for the arrival of the Marshal. They desperately needed a Law Officer to clean up the preditors and scum who’s law breaking ways are destroying the townsfolks lives.
Sherrif Joe is that mythical figure come to real life.
I whish for more men and woman of his mold. Sure could use a political leader of his stripe for some serious house cleaning of our government quote leadership. Now there are where the worst kind of crooks exist.
It would be target rich invironment for the likes of an enforcer like Sherrif Joe Arpaio.

Nov 12, 2009 - 5:49 am 57. El Cid:

Why is this getting published at Pajamas Media? I can go to HuffPo or Daily KOS if I want ignorant stuff like this. I can’t believe this shares bandwidth with articles by people like VDH. This guy doesn’t even have the guts to respond directly to his commenters.

Is PM going soft and moderate like the GOP? Do we need to publish the other side of every single issue and argument, no matter how illogical and ignorant it is? Is this just intended to flame the regular readers here? Keep it up, PM, and watch your site traffic drop like a rock.

Nov 12, 2009 - 7:47 am 58. DANIEL:

Obviousely the writer of the piece is unaware that states do have their own immigration laws. Along with laws about forging of documentation, fraud, etc. It does not matter if the Federal Government does not allow the Sheriff to participate in their program, he can enforce the laws of his county and state. Having been a previous (legal)resident of Arizona, I am aware that most Arizonians would like to end the invasion of crimianls they are experiencing. Go Joe!!!

Nov 12, 2009 - 1:37 pm 59. Gernot:

Ruben is a racist, interested only in reconcuesta of America by those who feel it was stolen from them. Actually, like other Indians the Mexicans lost the land in a war. Like all losers they are whining about it still today. Ruben is just another Meximerican who thinks it important that brown people survive the Anglo invasion. He needs to acknowledge reality someday soon. We need to deport traitors as well as Meximutts..

Nov 12, 2009 - 3:20 pm 60. paul_unalaska:

Ruben calling someone else, ‘most ridiculous’.

You’re a partisan news hack! You can’t get more ridiculous than that! You’ve gone further off the reservation when steering away from ‘journalistic integrity (I know, OXYMORON)’.

Ruben, even liberal D.C. is implementing 287g nowadays. For the beltway is understanding the cancer these miscreants cause.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/ap/dc-joins-effort-to-identify-illegal-immigrants-69971017.html

Not to mention Harris County, TX is doing the very same techniques to get rid of illegals. Houston! Happy days..
http://www.scanaugusta.net/team-of-eight-texas-deputies-round-up-illegals-without-controversy.html

Ruben, when Canada has as many community killing, federally funded, bigoted special interest groups and the Canucks inflict as much of a skid mark in America’s shorts as your banditos, I’ll back up your idiocy (yeah – when hell freezes over..).

Nov 13, 2009 - 10:47 am 61. zeezil:

So Ruben Navarette, the Illegal Alien Advocate (and Ridiculous) Blabbermouth intoxicant of choice is obviously the newspaper column and internet blog. I need to take a shower if I’m foolish enough to read his advocacy for illegal aliens with every column he regurgitates.

Nov 13, 2009 - 12:06 pm 62. zeezil:

Has Ruben Sandwich ever referred to his people as to what they really are…illegal aliens?

Nov 13, 2009 - 12:10 pm 63. Real Deal:

You partisan politics is simply to polarize your mind. An intellectual tazer, if you will. Meanwhile the Vatican, which discovered and rules America, will displace you with catholics loyal to engaging WW3. That war will enact the destruction of Israel, the subjugation of Islam, immolating more heretics, and the unification of all religion in catholocism.

Hey man you dropped your tinfoil hat…and you misspelled Catholicism.

Nov 13, 2009 - 2:35 pm 64. Ray:

I wonder why this clown Arapaio doesn’t go after the real criminals….the Mexican drug cartel! The old coward has to go after the easiest target, to make a name for himself. That is the dishwashers, the corn vendors, and fruit pickers. Oh, that’s right, the cartel have guns, and would fight back. So typical of the anti-immigrant nativists like clown Arapaio, Lou Dobbs and mant others.

Nov 15, 2009 - 9:14 am

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