By Raoul Lowery Contreras (re-posted with permission from Cafe Con Leche Republicans – original link)

Like swarms of angry hornets True Believer Hispanics, Chicanos and 70s-style radical La Raza Unida Party types or their children attack Republicans on the subject of immigration. And because these people are purists – Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the purist “person of color” in the barrio? — these people viciously attack “vendidos” (sell-outs), “coconuts” (Brown on the outside, white on the inside) at every opportunity as if they are the only true Hispanics in the universe.

No observer of these people could label them representative of the Hispanic community under any circumstances. They are True Believer fanatics.

Of the 53 million-plus American Hispanics, of which 34 and-a-half-million are of the Mexican persuasion, these angry hornets are not a super-majority by any means. Proof: Probably 90% of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans voted for Obama. 50%-52% of Cuban Americans voted for Obama and probably 55% of Mexican Americans probably did.

Although the economy and the President’s economic failures are issues number one and two for the country and Hispanics, some are hung up on immigration and the Obama-friendly media ignores the fact that it is not in the top five issues Hispanics have.

So, let’s take a look at how the Democratic Party and Democrats have handled the issue.

1994: California’s anti-illegal entrant Proposition 187 made the ballot with Governor Pete Wilson’s help and the State Republican Party’s $300,000. Wilson campaigned for it. However, if every single Republican voted for Proposition 187 and Pete Wilson, he and it would have lost. Democrats voted for it and for him.

1994: President Bill Clinton imposes a new policy in and around El Paso (TX) and San Diego (CA) the two principal entry points on the border for the 10,000 or more daily illegal entrants. Border Patrol agents from all over the country are stationed fifty yards apart which drove potential illegal border crossers into the mountains and desert east of San Diego and around El Paso.

Result of Operation Gatekeeper: thousands of dead men, women and children at the rate of 400 to five hundred a year for the past 18 years and illegal entry spiked upwards especially into Arizona. They didn’t come across through San Diego and El Paso in the numbers they used to.

1994: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) launches the giant smear against American citizens born in the U.S. that hadn’t been an issue since 1898 when the Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution’s 14th Amendment for the first and only time. It concluded that – any child (excepting children of invading soldiers, children of diplomats on those born on foreign ships) born in the United States or its territories (jurisdiction) are American citizens.

Reid called them “anchor babies” which are defined as American citizen babies that lie in wait for 21 years so they can legalize their illegally present parents. That theory is wrong and naturalization statistics from Immigration and Customs (ICE) prove it. The number of parents sponsored by these babies is miniscule. Reid wants to kill the 14th Amendment.

1996: Democrats in the House and Senate (Where Democrats were a majority) voted to restrict benefits for LEGAL immigrants and criminalize illegal entry upon returning to the United States after being deported by making re-entry a felony.

2001: Dream Act legalizing youngsters brought here as children is introduced by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. Democrats oppose, President Bush supports. Lost in the 9/11 tragedy.

2006: President Bush proposes Comprehensive Immigration Reform that includes Dream Act, guest workers and legalization (amnesty some call it). Democrats actively oppose it; does not pass in the Democrat U.S. Senate.

2007: Democrats take over the House and Senate. Comprehensive Immigration reform is brought up in the Senate under Harry Reid who engineers labor union-sponsored poison pill amendments that Republicans won’t vote for; Senator Barack Hussein Obama votes for poison pill amendments that kill the bill.

2009: President Obama never proposes immigration reform from the day he is sworn in until today.

2010: Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) reintroduces a sweeping Dream Act without Republican sponsorship. Obama does nothing to support it; it loses when five Democrat Senators vote against it even as enough Republicans vote for it to pass it.

2012: With Hispanic votes in mind, President Obama issues executive order lifting prosecution/deportation from young people brought here as children who meet certain criteria.

No one knows if the Obama pseudo-amnesty will or can survive court challenges. Nor does anyone know if ICE (Immigration) will round-up all the applicants and their families and deport them by cattle car; no one knows. We do know that Democrat polices have resulted in dead bodies.

“Operation Gatekeeper, 15 years later” NBC San Diego, Sept 30, 2009—

“(Activists) estimate that as many as 5,600 people have died while crossing the border through rugged mountain and desert areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas since the (Clinton) operation was launched Oct. 1, 1994.” Add another four years of bodies.
Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (reposted from Cafe Con Leche Republicans)

One of the most important questions running through Mitt Romney’s mind while considering whom to choose for his Vice-Presidential nomination is – can U.S. Senator Marco Rubio bring in Florida with its 29 electoral votes and can he help keep President Obama’s Hispanic margin down?

Liberal Democrat Hispanics and their polling colleagues at Latino Decisions say Rubio doesn’t help Romney among Hispanic registered voters, but there is a better answer to that question. It was provided by Hispanic Republicans in Texas on run-off day, Tuesday the 30th.

Not only did Ted Cruz receive a mountain of votes in his 56.8% to 43.2% defeat of the Texas’ Lt. Governor but he received a mountain of Hispanic Republican votes as well.

A study of each Texas county on the border with Mexico demonstrates that a Cuban-American can receive Mexican American votes. Examples: Cameron County with 87% Mexican Americans produced a 62.6% victory for Cruz; Zapata County with 92% Mexican Americans voted 75% for Cruz. Webb County with 95% Mexican Americans produced a 55.7% Cruz victory. The largest border county is El Paso with 82% of its people Mexican American, produced a 73.3% Cruz victory; Val Verde County is the only border county to have voted for Cruz’ opponent.

The question, then, of whether or not Senator Marco Rubio can help Romney with Hispanic votes has been answered. Rubio is far more attractive than Ted Cruz, in my opinion, yet Cruz romped with Texas Hispanics when they chose between his new face and an old one who spent millions of his own dollars and outspent Cruz 3 to 1.

The Rubio-can-help theory has much more import today than it did the Monday before the Texas run-off for reasons that cause a lifelong Hispanic Republican like me to cackle. Even as Democrats play catch-up by naming San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro as their keynote speaker 26 years after the Republican Party pioneered Hispanic outreach by having United States Treasurer Katherine Ortega deliver the ’84 Keynote speech, Democrats have a long way to go.

Chris Cilliza of the Washington Post writes:

“Cruz, a Cuban-American, joins Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Govs. Bobby Jindal (La.), Susana Martinez (N.M.), Nikki Haley (S.C.) and Brian Sandoval (Nev.)… as non-white Republicans — Cruz, Rubio, Sandoval and Martinez are Hispanic, Jindal and Haley are Indian-American… — that are nearly certain to run for national office, serve on a national ticket or be mentioned for a national ticket at some point in the not-too-distant future.”

“For a party that has struggled in recent years to escape the caricature that it is dominated by old, white men, the spate of minority faces rising to statewide office is a welcome development,” Cilliza writes.

“To be clear, a handful of Hispanic, Indian-American… elected officials with star potential does not mean that the Republican Party is changing top to bottom…”

If these words were written by a life-long Republican their meaning and potential impact would be minimal. Coming from a highly-placed Washington Post politics writer, they are gold-plated for independents and people that pay attention to politics from high above everyday run-of-the-mill inside newspaper stories.

Four heavyweight Hispanic governors and Senators compared to no Democrat Hispanic governors and one Senator equals a four-to-one image that cannot be matched in any way by Democrats. Add in Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, Indian-Americans and the GOP stomps Harry Reid and his gang of wimps. The GOP pioneered election victories by Arab Americans for Governor of New Hampshire and Oregon and who can miss Lebanese American Darrell Issa in the House of Representatives?

Combining the view that the GOP is making huge strides with “minority” governors and senators nationally, we now see that Mexican Americans (63% of all Hispanics) will, in fact, vote for a Cuban American.

That plows under the canard that Mexicans won’t vote for a Romney-Rubio ticket this November.

In the long term, these words from the Washington Post’s Chris Cilliza have great import:

“Given how badly the party has struggled among non-white voters, however, the crop of minority candidates with a legitimate case to make it on the national stage (at some point) is a stunning development and can, if the GOP plays it right, help it change the face — figuratively and literally — of the GOP.”

Will the GOP “play it right?” It will if I have anything to do with it along with, of course, soon-to-be U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and Governors Susana Martinez (NM) and Brian Sandoval (NV). And, let us not forget the seven Hispanic congress people in the House of Representatives.
Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (Reposted with permission)

Part Two (Part One)

Stupid statements by former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce as well as monstrous lies he tells are Pearce trademarks. Here, for example, is another Pearce pearl:

Pearce: “10 a day [coming across the U.S.-Mexico border] according to the Atlanta Science Foundation…are sexual predators.”

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin (DSK), has a Limited Liability Corporation in Atlanta she calls the Violent Crimes Institute. It is a one-person-for-profit company; she, charges $500-a-half hour if you want to speak with her on any subject.

Her 2006 paper “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration,” is where Pearce drew his statement about “sexual predators.” She claimed that “2 percent of illegals apprehended” were sex offenders and serial killers. She provides no source for that figure that others can see. She claims to have examined Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports and public records for an 88 month period but in reality she references mostly weekly newspapers and some ICE press releases, not official reports, prison or court records.

In her own words, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin says she: “(Conducted) a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders for the time period January 1999 through April 2006…There were 1500 cases…They included: serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.”

However, nowhere in her bibliography or her footnotes is there any mention of any specific official reports by any law enforcement agency, any court or any prison system.

Here is how she arrives at her numbers: “Based on population numbers of 12,000,000 illegal immigrants and the fact that young males make up more of this population than the general U.S. population, sex offenders in the illegal immigrant group make up a higher percentage.”

Of what, one might ask? More than 6,000,000 of those illegally here are males, of which about half would be young men. No one, however, knows what the numbers or percentages truly are. California reports that over half of illegally present male convicts are incarcerated for crimes of property and, less than 10% of all California inmates have immigration holds.

She says, “When examining ICE reports and public records, it is consistent to find sex offenders comprising 2% of illegals apprehended. Based on this 2% figure, which is conservative, there are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States.”

With this, she misrepresents her work. She didn’t examine actual reports. She ran across a government (GAO) report about inmates, but did not state, 2% of all local, state and federal inmates illegally in the U.S.A were sex criminals. Of course, the reason is that the feds don’t tabulate such crimes because they aren’t federal crimes, so her raw sources can’t be studied because they don’t exist.

She is in error. If there are 6-million illegally present males and 2% of them are sex offenders, there are, according to her math, 120,000 illegally immigrated males, not 240,000. She used the 12 million figure despite as many as 6-million being females and children.

DSK: “This translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day.” But, how can that be? During the peak of illegal immigration, 8,000 males were estimated to cross the border daily – based on apprehensions – that would amount to 160 alleged sexual offenders, not “93 sex offenders and 12 serial offenders” crossing every day. Her numbers make no sense.

Gustavo Arrellano AKA Ask A Mexican says it better: “For the Mexican, a more telling number in determining sexual deviancy amongst an ethnic group is the percentage of criminals arrested for such crimes: In 2003, gabachos (white boys) incarcerated for sex crimes represented about 18 percent of all gabacho inmates in state prisons; perverted Hispanics, conversely, made up just 11 percent (RLC, and over half of those are American citizens not illegal immigrants — strangely enough, the U.S. Department of Justice doesn’t keep the same statistics for federal prisons). According to this comparison, gabachos are more likely as a group to sexually assault you than Mexicans…”

Can an objective person stumble on the DSK’s work and accept it without an examination as done here? No.

Pearce spent decades in law enforcement; he knows law enforcement statistics. How could he possibly accept such shoddy work enough to quote it?

Simple explanation, he wants to believe such shoddy work because he wants reinforcement for his fantasy world of criminal illegal immigrants, criminal Mexicans. Between Pearce and DKS do we find the living embodiment of the word “charlatan?”

Defining DKS as a shoddy researcher and disseminator of fantasies is one thing; for a former Arizona State Senate President, recalled though he was, to be a current candidate for a new senate District in Arizona…that is a tragedy. He is not worthy.

Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

PART ONE

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (reposted with permission – original)

The biggest buffoon in American politics was either former KU Klux Klan (KKK) Grand Wizard David Duke or his friend, also a former KKK leader, California’s Tom Metzgar, Duke ran for various Lousiana political offices and Metzgar was the official Democratic candidate for the then (1980) most populous congressional district in the U.S.A.

Duke went to prison, a jury found Metzgar guilty of orchestrating the murder of an East African refuge in Portland, Oregon, and he was hit for millions of dollars in damages. He gave up his Fallbrook, California home and returned to the Midwest.

These two scourges of intelligence have disappeared. They are barely footnotes in modern American political history. There is a new buffoon politician that insults American intelligence. He resides in Arizona which is home to a gaggle of racist buffoon politicians. He, however, is the leader of the pack. Right behind him is Governor Jan Brewer who might be the only governor in the U.S.A. that did not attend a four-year college.

Meet Russell Pearce, former Number 2 man in the worst law enforcement agency in the U.S.A., the many-time-sued Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) led by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He also served as director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle agency after he retired from MCSO. He was fired from that job for covering up criminal acts by a department employee.

He ran for the Arizona State Senate and won. He became the senate’s leader and there he did serious damage. His crowning achievement was sponsoring a flagrantly unconstitutional law labeled SB 1070. While it was making its way to the United States Supreme Court, Senate President Pearce was recalled by the voters of his Senate District. He was thrown out of office.

The Court declared his SB 1070 unconstitutional except for Section 2B which it remanded back to the lower courts to be adjudicated when it draws a law suit for denial of civil rights.

Despite his recall by the voters and rebuff of his sponsored law, Russell Pearce has come up with a new way to insult fellow Arizonans and fellow Americans; he is running for election back to the Senate in a newly drawn Senate District that is without an incumbent.

He will not win for three reasons: One, he has a substantial Republican opponent who is successful, well liked and has deep support for the August 28th Arizona Primary. Secondly the revelations that Pearce enjoyed thousands of dollars in illegal gifts from the Fiesta Bowl Association that sponsors the January college football bowl game in Arizona. The giver of these thousands of dollars of illegal gifts to Senator Pearce has pleaded guilty to crimes that benefited Russell Pearce.

The third reason is that voters are not always stupid. The Arizona American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has demanded copies of all e-mails and letters written by Pearce during his senate years. Part two will dissect his e-mails. Here are some Pearce statements for intelligent people to digest that should disturb intelligent adults in and out of Arizona:

Pearce: “*60% of the homicides in Phoenix involve illegal aliens;”*

Phoenix New Times*: “In 2008, the Phoenix PD cleared 51.8 percent of murders, the rest were left uncleared. How do you determine the immigration status of those involved in the remainder? By magic? Apparently Pearce has his own brand of hocus pocus.”*

Pearce has never offered any proof from either the Phoenix Police Department or from the Sheriff’s office, MCSO, or the FBI, because there isn’t any. The statement is a blatant lie.

Pearce:*”9,000 Americans [are] killed every year at the hands of illegal aliens.”*

*Phoenix New Times: “This oft-repeated bit of blarney originated with Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R), who supposedly “extrapolated” the information from a 2005 GAO report. Thing is, that statistic is nowhere in the GAO report itself, which discussed the number of criminal aliens in federal and state custody. The number of “9,000 Americans” murdered every year by criminal aliens is unsubstantiated.”*

It is a LIE!

Pearce: “*67 percent’ of law enforcement officers killed in ‘the last few years’ have been murdered by illegal aliens.”*

Pearce has never produced proof, not even newspaper reports, to support this statement. He can’t because there is no proof. His statement is a blatant lie.

We know that Pearce has lied so many times as a public official that it is a wonder he is not in prison for lying so much, for felony lying. For example, he told many people that his church, the Mormon Church supported his SB 1070, his anti-Mexican law the Supreme Court threw out as unconstitutional. The Mormon Church, he said, supported SB 1070. Lie! It did not support SB 1070. Pearce lies so much he might have believed his own Big Lie about the Mormon Church.

Editors note: As with all postings on this blog which appear with a byline, the posting represents the author’s opinion and not the official position of Cafe Con Leche Republicans.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (California Leader of Cafe Con Leche Republicans – original blog)

P. T. Barnum’s oft-quoted “There’s a sucker born every minute” is appropriate today in the US of A. Why? Because of illegal immigration that has generated an April session in the Supreme Court of the United States on the State of Arizona’s declaration of war on the United States and the Constitution that formed and governs the country.

Defenders of Arizona’s anti-Mexican SB 1070 law often insist that the infamous law enjoys considerable public support. It certainly doesn’t have much support in the federal courts what with an Arizona-based federal district judge stopping the law’s critical provisions cold. The 9th Circuit upheld the judge’s injunctions and now those injunctions are up for review by the United States Supreme Court.

Most polls taken after the law’s passage showed something between 60 and 70% public support nationally. Of course, most people are ignorant of the Constitution as a whole in particular of Article 1, Section 8 which explicitly enumerates the power of the United States Congress “to establish a uniform rule of naturalization,” which means immigration.

Millions of people are unaware of the constitutional congressional mandate on naturalization/immigration, nonetheless P.T. Barnum “suckers” line up to support the Arizona law, especially the “usual suspects” who apparently lack detailed knowledge of the Constitution.

When I speak, I speak of people like Bill O’Reilly at Fox News and Laura Ingrahm, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity of radio fame and myriad other constitutionally unread public figures, the “suckers.”

There really aren’t that many suckers because if there were the Supreme Court would have been inundated by mountains of legal briefs supporting Arizona’s law. It wasn’t and those that were submitted look like “cut and paste” jobs by legal shops that represent a monolithic Arizona defense that is at best ludicrous and unconstitutional in spirit and in word. These silly supporting briefs are mostly from ultra-conservative congress people, a few other conservative officials and a number of hate groups organized by the country’s most active racist, Dr. John Tanton. These are hate groups like FAIR and its non-profit arm, the Center for Immigration Studies (organized by Tanton to fight any immigration including legal especially Catholics from Mexico).

Numerous well-known and influential outside parties oppose the law:

• Sixteen current and former chief law enforcement officers filed briefs opposing SB 1070, including the former Phoenix police chief and the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, which shares a longer border with Mexico than any county in Arizona. Two law enforcement officials – only – filed supporting SB 1070, including Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who is being investigated by the federal government that accuses his deputies of the worst racial profiling in the country.
• One brief filed to oppose SB 1070 was joined by a former Secretary of State (Madeline Albright, Democrat), a former Secretary of Defense (William Cohen, Republican), and two former ambassadors to the United Nations (Albright and John Negroponte, Republican).
• Another was submitted on behalf of two former commissioners of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Doris Meissner, Republican and James Ziglar, Republican). No member of any prior Presidential administration (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II) joined a brief supporting SB 1070.
• Eleven states with a combined population of nearly 100 million—submitted a brief opposing SB 1070, including California, New York, and Illinois. More than 40 cities and counties filed opposition to 1070, three of which are in Arizona (Tucson, Flagstaff, and San Luis).
• A brief filed on behalf of 68 pro-immigrant members of Congress was joined by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other high-ranking members of the House Democratic leadership. No member of the House Republican leadership signed a pro-SB 1070 brief filed on behalf of fifty conservative lawmakers.
• The government of Mexico filed opposition to SB 1070 that was joined by sixteen other Latin American countries.
• Finally, a dozen briefs were filed on behalf of more than 50 national organizations ranging from the ultra-liberal ACLU, to the AFL/CIO, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Briefs here, briefs there, briefs everywhere. None with pro-signatures from the Republican Congressional leadership, none with pro-Governors other than the high school-only educated Arizona governor who did not attend a four year college or took academic college courses even in community college unless they came under her medical office worker certificate program.

The law’s sponsor, Russell Pearce (who was the Arizona Senate President then) was flushed down a recall toilet last November when his conservative constituency threw him out of office.

Arpaio is being investigated by the feds for alleged criminal acts. SB1070 supporting Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu (Boo-Boo) is also being investigated for criminal acts.

Support for and supporters of SB1070 are narrow in scope and numbers. Question: do they have five “sucker” supporters on the Court?

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras

When an angry white male called Arizona s Maricopa County Sheriff s Office (MCSO) complaining about Spanish being spoken at a McDonald s, MCSO organized 50 deputies (with flak jackets and M-16 rifles) and raided the McDonald s looking for illegal alien Mexican hamburger flippers.

Result: One or two or three illegal workers from Mexico and maybe a legal resident or citizen or two, all to be held in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio s infamous desert tent jail where the inmates are fed a bologna sandwich a day. The raid cost thousands of dollars.

Unusual..?

No, this is a normal, regular day in Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County where 78-year-old Sheriff Joe Arpaio reigns supreme. Whenever any elected politician has questioned Arpaio s tactics or his budget or the millions of dollars Arpaio disappeared from the jail account, he has ordered corruption investigations into their offices and personal lives.

These investigations have been declared bogus by the courts and Arpaio’s allies in the County attorney s office have not only been reprimanded by the courts but disbarment and criminal charges are pending.

In addition to the missing millions of dollars from the jail account and phony investigations designed to intimidate elected officials, there are also illegal campaign contributions handled by his top administrators that violated state laws.

The guilty officers were fired by a reluctant Arpaio only after a neighboring sheriff s department (Pinal County) publicly announced its investigation s findings.
Now enters the federal government.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Homeland Security Department (HSD) have stripped MCSO of its federal privileges of assisting federal officers on immigration matters and stripped the County from the Secure Communities Act which means money and data base resources MCSO has been using will no longer be available.

In a letter to the county and in a press conference, the Department of Justice announced that after a three year investigation, Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies are guilty of hundreds if not thousands of civil rights violations and illegal racial profiling. It is also public knowledge that while Arpaio s deputies raid local McDonalds, they have not served 40,000 felony warrants outstanding in the county and have bungled hundreds of sex crime investigations.

In the DOJ letter to Maricopa County elected officials: If MCSO is not interested or if we deem that MCSO is not engaged in good-faith efforts to achieve compliance by voluntary means, we are prepared to file a civil action to compel compliance. In the actual report compiled of the investigation, there is a review of the constitutional abuses rampant in Maricopa County including an analysis by a leading expert on measuring racial profiling who examined MCSO traffic stops and found that (Arizona Republic):

Latino drivers were between four to nine times more likely to be stopped than similarly situated non-Latino drivers. Overall, the expert concluded that this case involves the most egregious racial profiling in the United States that he has ever personally seen in the course of his work, observed in litigation, or reviewed in professional literature. The most egregious racial profiling in the United States he has ever personally seen.

This, where an Arizona law SB 1070 requires all state and local employees, including meter maids, building inspectors and bus drivers, to use the exact same illegal methods to enforce the law.

Alleged Civil Rights violations in the report:

• One-fifth of all the immigration-sweep traffic stops (20%) violated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizures.
• Arpaio’s anti-immigration squads responded repeatedly with enforcement patrols to complaints about people with “dark skin” or Spanish speakers.
• Jail guards punished Spanish-speaking inmates for failing to understand their commands in English, putting them in solitary confinement as punishment.
• Jail guards refused to accept grievance forms and “tank orders,” which allow inmates to request basic daily services, which were written in Spanish.
• Guards pressured (forced?) Latino inmates to sign voluntary deportation forms.

Arpaio’s office retaliated against its critics by subjecting them to “retaliatory detentions and arrests without cause, unfounded civil lawsuits, and other baseless complaints.”

Two specific examples:
A legal U.S. resident who allegedly failed to use his turn signal was made to sit on a curb for 15 minutes, then arrested and jailed for 13 days on a bogus charge that was dismissed in court.

A legal U.S. resident and his U.S. citizen son invited deputies into their home during a raid on a suspect drop-house next door. The deputies proceeded to search the home without consent or a warrant, handcuffed the man and his son, then, had them sit on the sidewalk with the people being busted from the neighboring house. They were detained for an hour before being released without any citation The investigation also found that the Sheriff’s Office permitted the specialized units to engage in unconstitutional behavior.

Arizona Republic: Arpaio and (his) aides expressed particular anger at how the Justice Department, which flew in a contingent of officials from Washington D.C., chose to trumpet its damning findings in “a dog and pony” fashion with a press conference. “Don’t come here and use me as a whipping post for a national, international problem,” the Sheriff said, alluding to the issue of illegal immigration. One of his aides called the whole thing a witch hunt. It appears that there Sheriff Arpaio and many of his deputies should be and might be in his famous desert tent city jail eating bologna sandwiches. A federal criminal investigation aside from this civil investigation is proceeding.

Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Deans List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-03-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.
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