Deputies To Receive Training

Sheriff: Big Change in Immigration Enforcement on how not to racially profile.

Updated: Tuesday, 09 Feb 2010, 5:49 AM MST

Published: Monday, 08 Feb 2010, 5:32 PM MST

PHOENIX -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce some big changes in the way he enforces immigration laws.
The sheriff is under investigation by the Justice Department for racial profiling, and has taken heat for his crime suppression sweeps. But Arpaio still says he won't back down, despite the fact the government has stripped some of his power from him.

 

MCSO has hired a professor of immigration law, Kris Kobach, to lead the training. He says that deputies have the inherent authority to detain suspected illegal immigrants.

(Professor Kris Kobach ia a candidate for Kansas Secretary of State.)
(Thanks Chuck)