Judge bars Arpaio from using smuggling tactic

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A federal judge has barred Arizona’s most populous county from using a policy that allows people who paid to be smuggled into the U.S. to be charged under the state’s immigrant smuggling law as conspirators in the crime.

U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield’s ruling said Maricopa County’s interpretation of the 2005 state law cannot be enforced by Sheriff Joe Arpaio or county prosecutors because it conflicts with — and is trumped by — federal law.

Broomfield said the policy criminalizes actions that federal law treats as a civil matter.

... Broomfield’s ruling is the latest in a series of restrictions placed by the courts and the federal government on immigration enforcement efforts by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/arizona/free/20130930arizona-joe-arpaio-smuggling-tactic-ruling.html

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. I rarely wish for individuals to just go ahead and die...

[gopiscrap]

3. I tend to agree

[Shrike47]

2. I have heard from convicted sex offenders that they should not be convicted on testimony

Of a co-conspirator. They explain the 11 year old (or whatever) wanted it and 'conspired' with the perpetrator to their own rape.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. ?????