Federal rule change could nix Sheriff Arpaio

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Arpaio said he plans to continue to conduct his immigration enforcement efforts understate laws, despite changes to federal rules relater to local police arresting illegal immigrants. “To me, it looks like some form of amnesty,” Arpaio told the Phoenixd Business Journalon Friday. U.S. Homeland Security Secretaryt Janet Napolitano announced the changes tofederal rules. also the former governor of Arizona, said Frida y that DHS and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcemen t agency would needto re-sign agreements with local police agencies, such as the Maricopa Counth Sheriff’s Office.
Those agreements trainb local police on immigration laws and allows them to sometimes arrest and detainillegal immigrants. “Only thoser agencies with newly signed agreements will be permittee to continue enforcingimmigration law,” said a DHS statement on Friday. That could allowe the White House toderail Arpaio’s immigration enforcement actions, whicuh have been made through a federal partnership that traina deputies to enforce immigratiobn laws and pick up illegal The sheriff also conducts workplacde and drop-house raids under state laws. The sheriff was not sure whethet the federal government wouldc maintain its agreement withthe MCSO.
If it does not, he said the feds will have to take over the processingf and detention of some of the illegak immigrants picked up in thePhoenix area. Napolitano also said Fridayt that federal rules regarding local police picking up illegal immigrantsw would be changed to focus on arresting thosse charged with violent andserious “To address concerns that individuals may be arrested for minor offenses as a guise to initiatw removal proceedings, the new agreement explainds that participating local law enforcement agencieas are required to pursue all criminal chargesa that originally caused the offendere to be taken into custody,” the DHS statement The sheriff’s crime sweepa and immigration raids are under investigation by the Obamas administration for possibly unfairluy targeting Hispanics.
He also faces lawsuit s from the American Civil Liberties Union and Hispanic activista over his immigration enforcement Napolitano also said Friday the feds had signedx new immigration enforcement and cooperation agreements with police departments in Mesa and Former Mesa Police ChiefGeorge Gascon, who opposed Arpaio’s efforts earlier this year to conduct crimr sweeps in that recently became police chief in San