Thread: An Illegal Bounty (on Sheriff Arpaio)

An Illegal Bounty

Posted 08/03/2010 06:48 PM ET

Arpaio: Cartels' toughest foe

Border: Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is hated by activists for his tough enforcement of immigration law. But now a Mexican smuggling cartel has put a price on his head. T his is about big money, and Arpaio's hurting business.

To hear open borders supporters tell it, the trouble on the Arizona line is about civil rights — most specifically anti-Latino racism. Never mind that as illegal immigrants flow in, U.S. territory is being ceded to Mexican smuggling syndicates and Arizona now has the world's second-highest kidnapping rate.

But the Justice Department is more interested in civil rights suits and protestors like La Raza are more interested in amnesty.

For both, the biggest threat is Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who cracks downs on illegal immigration with intensity.

But now there's been a threat on his life, picked up from a disposable cell phone call from Mexico, most likely a cartel that smuggles illegal immigrants. Whoever it was offered a $1 million bounty to kill the U.S. lawman. Fact is, Arpaio's sweeps are a threat to the Mexican cartels and they're lashing out.

Cartels like the one in Juarez fight for smuggling routes, use technology such as YouTube to publicize their crimes and no doubt hate it when Arpaio applies the heat.

Federal officials and the Obama administration ought to take the threat to Arpaio seriously, because the Drug Enforcement Administration has already warned that Mexican cartels will soon take their war from Mexico to the U.S. and start firing at U.S. lawmen.

Arpaio's ground-level enforcement of illegal immigration violations has worked. Using the "broken windows" theory, Arpaio has attacked the small crimes that create the conditions for larger, more serious crimes to occur. This explains the cartel's fury.

Arpaio is a rare lawman who understands that Mexico's war and Arizona's are the same. His work to halt illegal immigration damages the cartels and benefits both Arizona and Mexico.

It's a war against a common enemy that should trigger a united front and a common — and merciless response.

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We know a large majority of Citizens are on AZ's side in this whole mess because we understand they are the front line defense for all of the USA..

If anything happens to Sheriff Joe,the Dems,the justice dept,LaRaza will feel the wrath of "We The People" like they cannot even imagine. We hold them responsible for defending these drug,human smugglers instead of Our Country and its citizens.

Originally Posted by USPatriot

We know a large majority of Citizens are on AZ's side in this whole mess because we understand they are the front line defense for all of the USA..

If anything happens to Sheriff Joe,the Dems,the justice dept,LaRaza will feel the wrath of "We The People" like they cannot even imagine. We hold them responsible for defending these drug,human smugglers instead of Our Country and its citizens.

Thank you, USPatriot, WELL SAID!