Thread: AZ - Human smugglers arrested at the border

Mac Colson
2:22 PM, Feb 6, 2017
48 mins ago

TUCSON, AZ - Border Patrol agents stopped two separate smuggling attempts on Sunday.

Four illegal immigrants were arrested.

The first stopped happened at an immigration checkpoint near Three Points. During a secondary inspection of a Dodge Charger, agents found a Mexican national and a Guatemalan national in the trunk.

The female driver from Tucson was arrested for human smuggling.

The second incident happened near Sonoita on State Route 82 during a vehicle stop.A Chevrolet Cavalier was searched and agents found two Mexican men in the trunk.

In both incidents, the illegal immigrants are pending removal proceedings.

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-cen...-at-the-border

Arpaio holds out the tin cup

Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff known for his uncompromising stance on illegal immigration, is back in the news months after losing his bid for re-election.

Now he is asking supporters to help him raise $1 million for his legal defense fund. Mr. Arpaio faced numerous lawsuits alleging abuse and faulty medical care in several jails, and taxpayers in Maricopa County, where he was sheriff, spent tens of millions of dollars for his legal defense.

In his email, Mr. Arpaio attributed his re-election defeat to a host of enemies, including “leftist financier George Soros,” the American Civil Liberties Union and the Obama administration’s Justice Department.

Mr. Soros spent an estimated $2 million last year opposing Mr. Arpaio, and the Justice Department under Mr. Obama filed criminal contempt-of-court charges against the sheriff for refusing a judge’s order to stop discriminating against Latinos.

As the sheriff of Arizona’s largest county, Mr. Arpaio gained a national reputation for immigration raids that targeted heavily Hispanic neighborhoods in and around the Phoenix area.

Thousands of people were caught up in the raids, which were often carried out without any proof of criminal activity, and which critics called racial profiling.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/u...istration.html

Scroll down to find the article on our dear Sheriff Joe!! Poor Sheriff Joe!! This is awful. Are these civil lawsuits? Or is this part of the government suits against him? Does anyone out there in Arizona know?