Arizona Sheriff's Sweep for Illegal Aliens
The Friends of the Illegals Should Also Be Arrested for Harboring Fugitives

By K. Kemper, published Jul 11, 2008

There is no question that Sheriff Arpaio of Phoenix's Maricopa County is effective; boring, ineffective sheriffs are ignored till voting day arrives and they are simply replaced by the next energetic sheriff.

What makes absolutely no sense is that legal relatives and friends wish the sheriff's department to selectively apply the law; find rapists, burglars and thieves but ignore coyotes (human smugglers), and ignore those in Arizona or elsewhere, illegally. "They only want a better living." Interesting answer. The thief wants a better living but the immigrant complainer would not say "stealing is not the same as being an illegal immigrant." That is an option not shared by both native US citizens and those who have gone through the legal immigration system.

While it is a fact that Sheriff Joe only sends a few thousand illegals a month back to Mexico, of which over fifty percent return illegally in 90 days, at least he is arresting them and temporarily reducing the quantitative problem.

This author has met illegals who have been in Arizona for 1 mo, 1 yr and 10 yrs; and they still have no attended English classes, sought a visa or green card, procured a driver's license. They figure "I got here, I'm staying. If I get caught, so what? I will just return in one week."

Yet those same people are from proud Catholic families who supposedly respect the law.
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