The program authorizes #ICE to designate certain state & local officers to question & arrest people they *suspect* of violating federal #immigration laws during their regular patrols.

…In #Arizona’s #MaricopaCounty, Sheriff #JoeArpaio was #convicted in 2017 of #criminal contempt of court for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining residents because he suspected them of being in the US illegally. #Trump gave Arpaio a #pardon during his first term.

#law #Gestapo #USpol

Hello from #Germany to #NewMexico!
The only things I know about your state are #JoeArpaio and the #PinkUnderwear.
Since #Trump was president I am an overuser of the word "f*ck". I am salty with caramel, GenX, a Mom of one son, a slave to 5 cats, a Ukraine supporter, and of course, I had GSDs
Joe Arpaio’s attorney was disbarred and is now doing stand-up comedy

Mark Goldman helped Sheriff Joe score a presidential pardon. Then his legal career went up in flames.

Phoenix New Times
Once-invincible Arpaio suffers another election loss in Fountain Hills mayoral race

Arpaio got just 15% of the vote in a three-way race for Fountain Hills mayor.

Axios Phoenix

If voters pass the #border enforcement measure in Nov, it would mark a sharp U-turn for a state that has moderated its approach to immigration since an era when Sheriff #JoeArpaio of Maricopa County carried out #raids & traffic stops that *critics* criticized as #RacialProfiling. [not just critics, his policies were #cruel & #unconstitutional]

#Immigration #law #racism
https://www.acluaz.org/en/press-releases/federal-court-rules-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-violated-united-states-constitution

Federal Court Rules Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Violated United States Constitution

PHOENIX – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio relied on racial profiling and illegal detentions to target Latinos, a federal district court said today.

ACLU of Arizona

Trump pardoned a hodgepodge of controversial figures, from Joe Arpaio to Roger Stone. Now, dozens of them are contributing to his 2024 bid or have spread his false election claims.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pardons-commutations-clemency-2024-campaign-political-donations-arpaio-bannon-2023-12

#TrumpPardons #2024Bid #FalseElectionClaims #JoeArpaio #RogerStone #PoliticalDonations #Politics #News

Controversial figures pardoned by Trump are now funding his 2024 bid

In an analysis of Trump's clemency orders, The Washington Post found that dozens of the recipients are actively boosting the ex-president's campaign.

Insider

Joseph Michael Arpaio is the former #Republican #sheriff of Maricopa County, #Arizona, who seemed to have forgotten that the sheriff's office is an agency for upholding the law, rather than a vehicle for promoting his own personal brand of hate. Few people can even name the candidates that ran against Arpaio; his "brand" recognition was astronomical. Each time his name got in the news for some new malfeasance, he won new voters; it didn't matter whether it cost the taxpayers millions. He set a new benchmark for "teflon" and could only keep dodging the fallout for so long, though; his 24-year reign of terror was broken in November 2016, when he was voted out of office. The former sheriff was pardoned by #tRump on August 25, 2017. So much for being "tough on crime". He has been a supporter or member of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association since at least 2013.

#RationalWiki #JoeArpaio #ConstitutionalSheriffs
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio

Joe Arpaio

Joseph Michael Arpaio (1932–) is the former Republican sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who seemed to have forgotten that the sheriff's office is an agency for upholding the law, rather than a vehicle for promoting his own personal brand of hate. Few people can even name the candidates that ran against Arpaio; his "brand" recognition was astronomical. Each time his name got in the news for some new malfeasance, he won new voters; it didn't matter whether it cost the taxpayers millions. He set a new benchmark for "teflon" and could only keep dodging the fallout for so long, though; his 24-year reign of terror was broken in November 2016, when he was voted out of office. The former sheriff was pardoned by President Donald Trump on August 25, 2017.[2] So much for being "tough on crime". He has been a supporter or member of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association since at least 2013.[3][4]

RationalWiki

Arpaio, 85, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 5, with a maximum potential penalty of six months in prison. That is the plan, unless President Donald Trump intervenes.

http://www.newsweek.com/who-joe-arpaio-felon-maricopa-arizona-trump-has-pardoned-655609

#Phoenix #Maricopa #Arizona #JoeArpaio #Arpaio

"Donald Trump has defended his controversial pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio by arguing a contempt of court charge "unfairly" cost Mr Arpaio his re-election bid."

As it should. Arpaio belongs in a US Federal Penitentiary if not death chamber.

What of the 44 bogus felony charges he made against a coworker, and the bogus bomb/assassination plot they invented with other Sheriff deputies?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-pardoned-joe-arpaio-221704972.html

#Phoenix #Maricopa #Arizona #JoeArpaio #Arpaio #Trump